All articles by Tim Wogan – Page 7
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ResearchHow tunnelling titanium turns a perfect crystal into a bad heat conductor
Quantum tunnelling is key to solving the mystery of why some defect-free crystals have such low thermal conductivities
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ResearchExplosive imaging captures helium dimer’s wave function
Technique could provide insight into other exotic states
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ResearchExperimental proof of liquid–liquid transition in supercooled water
Diffraction measurements taken whilst laser heating pressurised water from an exotic frozen state
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ResearchTunable graphene oxide–polymer membrane mimics biological membranes
Composite material’s permeability and selectivity varies with pH
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ResearchPlastic waste upcycled to high-value chemicals in one-pot process
Polyethylene chains are broken down and aromatised to produce valuable alkylaromatic products
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ResearchUltrafast experiments capture speed-of-light excitation delay as photon travels across H2
Photon excites one end of the molecule first, and then the other end 247 zeptoseconds later
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ResearchMolecular state switching technique offers insight into reactions’ complexity
New technique offers exceptional chemical control
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ResearchSulfur study delivers first experimental proof of a liquid–liquid critical point
Researchers interpret density anomaly as a sign of the critical opalescence phenomenon
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ResearchLevitating ring flame’s burning secrets revealed
Blue whirl could offer a soot-free way to burn oil spills – if it can be scaled up
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ResearchKnotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale
Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality
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ResearchComputational study supports theory that water has a second critical point
Liquid-liquid phase transition at deeply supercooled conditions could explain water’s distinctive behavior
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ResearchCatalyst takes its time to deliver both enantiomers in one pot synthesis
Discovery could enable access to both enantiomers of a drug in a single synthesis
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ResearchMicrofluidic electrochemistry delivers radical coupling breakthrough
Interelectrode gap engineered so that diffusion outpaces radical decomposition
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ResearchPost-silicon age dawns as carbon nanotube transistors made in chip factories
Moore’s law could hold true for many years to come with a little help from nanotubes
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ResearchMachine learning concocts carbon dioxide conversion catalyst
Computation guides experiments towards a de-alloyed copper–aluminium catalyst
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ResearchRecord amounts of ammonia produced from nitrogen and water
Greener ammonia synthesis proceeds at room temperature and pressure using hydrogen from water splitting
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ResearchMystery of where early Earth’s life-fuelling phosphates came from may have been solved
Meteorites have been source of building blocks for primordial life
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ResearchCeramic could help slash lithium extraction costs by as much as 80%
New technology removes need for high temperatures and toxic reagents
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ResearchEngineered yeast can remove heavy metals from wastewater
Easy storage and rapid growth could see yeast compete with bacterial and chemical remediation
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NewsAre the last half century’s worth of results from widely-used spectroscopy tool wrong?
Spectroscopists claim work on semiconducting and insulating materials is mostly worthless