Chemistry News
- Start of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Development of efficient battery systems for future energy supply and mobility is the objective of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage. Today, this new research institution celebrated its opening in Ulm.
- US Office of Naval Research achieves milestone
(Office of Naval Research) Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab, N.M., have achieved a remarkable breakthrough with the Office of Naval Research's Free Electron Laser (FEL) program, demonstrating an injector capable of producing the electrons needed to generate megawatt-class laser beams for the Navy's next-generation weapon system.
- No longer just a spectator, silicon oxide gets into the electronics action on computer chips
(American Chemical Society) Scientists are documenting that one fundamental component of computer chips, long regarded as a passive bystander, can actually be made to act like a switch. That potentially allows it to take part in the electronic processes that power cell phones, iPads and other products. In a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the scientists document the multiple ways in which silicon dioxide, long regarded simply as an electric insulator, gets involved in the action.
- A nanoscale rope, and another step toward complex nanomaterials that assemble themselves
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab scientists have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biological materials. Their work is the latest development in the push to develop self-assembling nanoscale materials that mimic the intricacy and functionality of nature's handiwork, but which are rugged enough to withstand harsh conditions such as heat and dryness
- Triblock spheres provide a simple path to complex structures
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a simple, generalizable technique to fabricate complex structures that assemble themselves. The researchers demonstrated that they can produce a large, complex structure -- an intricate lattice -- from tiny colloidal particles called triblock Janus spheres. Further exploration of triblock spheres and other Janus particles could open doors to a broad area of self-assembly of complex structures from simple materials.
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