Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Copper atoms trapped in MXene nanochannels remove 94.9% of bisphenol A in 5 minutes by concentrating reactants and lowering ...

Light-emitting semiconductors are used throughout everyday life in TVs, smartphones, and lighting. However, many technical ...

Technical University of Braunschweig, and the University of Delaware achieved new insight into the inner structure of the ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

Spiral scanning creates six distinguishable polarization patterns in ferroelectric films, enabling data storage beyond binary ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

Superionic water could be responsible for the peculiar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune. Researchers have analyzed it ...

Open a jewelry box or pause in front of a stained-glass window, and you are seeing one of nature’s quieter tricks at work. The color, in these cases, is not painted on. It comes from the atoms ...