Controlling the arrangement of atomic vacancies offers a new way to adjust electronic, magnetic, thermal, and hydrogen ...

Chemists report that radiation-induced chemical reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of metals in a new type of nuclear reactor cooled by molten salts.

High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Imagine never charging your phone again or having a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime. Scientists are developing tiny nuclear ...

Lithium-ion batteries, used in consumer devices and electric vehicles, typically last hours or days between charges. However, with repeated use, they degrade and need to be charged more frequently.

Scientists have for the first time filmed the real-time growth and contraction of Palladium nanoparticles, opening new ...

The arrangement of small molecules—known as ligands—around transition metal atoms affects how the metal atoms behave. This is important because transition metals are used as catalysts in the synthesis ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

These results deepen our view of quantum materials by displaying electron activity in three-dimensional momentum space. The swirl patterns highlight how fundamental physics can unveil novel approaches ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.