Wrapping of nanosize copper cubes can help convert carbon dioxide into other chemicals

26-Sep-2022 - Researchers found a new way to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by wrapping copper nanocubes with an organic layer, solving instability and selectivity problems with copper nanocubes in catalysis, and improving how this electrocatalyst converts CO2 into organic molecules. As the need to ...

World’s first LED lights developed from rice husks

19-Apr-2022 - Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have developed a way to recycle rice husks to create the first silicon quantum dot (QD) LED light. Their ...

Researchers develop procedure to interpret x-ray emission spectra of liquid water

Study helping to advance the understanding of the structure of water

03-Mar-2022 - Water is an abundant and essential compound, found everywhere on earth. Yet despite its familiarity and simple structure, water displays many unusual physical properties. For more than a century, scientists have turned their attention to the study of water, attempting to better interpret its ...

Answering a century-old question on the origins of life

A team of Japanese scientists found the missing link between chemistry and biology in the origins of life

04-Oct-2021 - The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to represent the evolution of chemistry into biology. “Chemical evolution was first proposed in the 1920s as the idea that life ...

Twisting magnets enhance data storage capacity

15-Feb-2016 - Members of a research collaboration have succeeded in experimentally verifying the properties of crystals of chiral magnetic materials, which may lead to the development of new types of magnetic memories with unprecedented storage capacities. The collaboration "A Consortium to Exploit Spin ...

A clue to generate electric current without energy consumption at room temperature

05-Jan-2016 - A group of researchers in Japan and China identified the requirements for the development of new types of extremely low power consumption electric devices by studying Cr-doped (Sb, Bi)2Te3 thin films. At extremely low temperatures, an electric current flows around the edge of the film without ...

Draw out of the predicted interatomic force

01-Sep-2015 - Liquid Bi shows a peculiar dispersion of the acoustic mode, which is related to the Peierls distortion in the crystalline state. These results will provide valuable inspiration to researchers developing new materials in the nanotechnology field.Studies of the atomic dynamics in liquid Bi have ...

Ultra-thin, all-inorganic molecular nanowires successfully compounded

10-Jul-2015 - Nanowires are wired-shaped materials with diameters that are tens of nanometers or less. There are many types of nanowires, including semiconducting composite nanowires, metal oxide composite nanowires, and organic polymer nanowires, and they are typically used in functional materials and devices ...

Hiroshima University is first to install Malvern Instruments’ new Zetasizer Nano ZSP

28-Nov-2012 - Dr Kikuo Okuyama ofthe Department of Chemical Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University in Japan, was the first customer to take delivery of a Zetasizer Nano ZSP from Malvern Instruments. In Dr Okuyama’s work the objective is to find alternative materials for rare ...

The Trap Snaps Shut

Researchers isolate the substance that causes Venus flytraps to close

11-Nov-2010 - The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant luring insect prey with drops of liquid. The trap snaps shut like a steel jaw when an insect touches one of the very fine hairs within. The prey is caught – digestion begins. Minoru Ueda and a research team from the Universities of Tohoku, Hirosaki, and ...