Determining real molecules in operating batteries

Scientists determined new molecular-level information at the solid/liquid interface, pushing toward better energy storage devices.

'High-occupancy' vehicle battery

Towards higher energy density batteries: singly charged lithium ions replaced by doubly charged magnesium ions.

Spinning ginger into nanoparticles to heal inflammatory bowel disease

Researchers have developed edible ginger-derived nanoparticles that they believe may be good medicine for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease. The particles may also help fight cancer linked to colitis, according to experiments in mice.

Curbing the life-long effects of traumatic brain injury with neuron-targeted nanoparticle

Scientists report a potential way to reduce the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a neuron-targeting nanoparticle, using an animal model of TBI.

New method to identify microscopic failure in polymers and composite materials

Researchers have found a new way to identify microscopic damage in polymers and composite materials before total failure occurs.

Phononics pioneer probes the untapped powers of sound

A materials science engineer is bending sound waves in nature-defying ways that could quiet our cities, heal our bodies, provide new sources of energy, and compute and process information.

Attosecond science opens new avenues in femtochemistry

Attosecond Science is a new exciting frontier in contemporary physics, aimed at time-resolving the motion of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids on their natural timescale. Electronic dynamics derives from the creation and evolution of coherence between different electronic states and proceeds on sub-femtosecond timescales.

Researchers watch catalysts at work

Physicists have succeeded in watching a silver catalyst at work for the first time with the aid of an atomic force microscope.