NEWSROOM

Advanced imaging reveals a detailed understanding of the mechanisms driving a previously misunderstood material, researchers say

The study serves as a benchmark for quantum chemical methods in modeling phosphate-containing clusters, opening new pathways for designing more efficient proton-conducting materials and understanding biological proton transfer.

Researchers at The University of Osaka use a nanoreactor to produce pores that mimic biological ion channels

Morphological characterization of the Fe 3 S 4 nanosheet-like structures. (a,b) SEM images at different magnifications. (c) TEM image, evidencing the two-dimensional structure, (d) HRTEM image with the corresponding FFT pattern shown in the inset. (e,f) Magnified views of the boxed regions marked in blue and pink in (d), highlighting the crystallographic planes of Fe 3 S 4 . (g−i) Dark-field STEM image and the corresponding EDX elemental mapping of Fe (red) and S (yellow). (

When ice melts into water, it happens quickly, with the transition from solid to liquid being immediate. However, very thin materials do not adhere to these rules. Instead, an unusual state between solid and liquid arises: the hexatic phase. Researchers at the University of Vienna have now succeeded in directly observing this exotic phase in an atomically thin crystal. Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy and neural networks, they filmed a silver iodide crystal protecte

With carefully designed tunable active sites, unique structure of new single atom platforms enables strong gas binding in pioneering step towards more efficient industrially-relevant catalysis.