Dislocations, one of the key entities in materials science, govern the properties of any crystalline material. Thus, understanding their life cycle, from creation to annihilation via motion and ...

What makes some plastics stick to metal without any glue? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have peered into the ...

Properties of materials are often defined by imperfections in their atomic structure, especially when the material itself is just one atom thick, such as graphene. Researchers have now developed a ...

Thank you for bringing to my attention the recent International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry report “Atomic weights of the elements 2009” (C&EN, Dec. 20 ...

Nanotechnology continues its march through the field of electronics, enabling faster and more energy-efficient computer processors, larger computer memory density and increased battery capacity. These ...

Decades of research on electrochemical CO 2 reduction has brought the science to the cusp of the commercialization, with specialty chemicals already in industrial production. Our group's research uses ...

High-precision measurements of the mass of the deuteron, the nucleus of heavy hydrogen, provide new insights into the reliability of fundamental quantities in atomic and nuclear physics. This is ...

Peter Baum in his laboratory with the attosecond electron beam microscope. (Photograph provided by Peter Baum) Combining features of attoscience with high-resolution electron microscopy has allowed ...

In a development that could lead to better antibiotics, scientists have derived atomic-scale resolution structures of the cell's protein-making machine, the ribosome, at key stages of its job. The ...