Research Summaries

Despite interest in how climate warming affects ecological processes, remarkably little is known about whether similar types of ecosystems respond

Many Arctic clouds are mixed phase. Correctly predicting the partitioning of mass and transitions between these two phases is vital for

Gaps or broken trees, known as windthrows, are a common form of tree mortality in Amazonia. Windthrows affect forest dynamics and carbon storage,

Almost all life on Earth relies directly or indirectly on the conversion of inorganic compounds in the environment into organic compounds that

Boron is widely known as an element with unique chemistry, often in regards to the octet rule. However, boron is also of great interest to many

New battery electrodes based on nanostructured molybdenum disulfide combine the ability to charge in seconds with high capacity and long cycle life

It is rare to find materials that operate at room temperature and display strong “multiferroic coupling” — a property that allows

Scientists at the University of Michigan overcame several long-standing technical challenges by developing custom-nanofabricated calorimeters (an

A critical property of any material used in solar cells, cell phones, or other electronics that are exposed to sunlight is photostability, a

Platinum is an essential element for catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction critical for fuel cell operations, a technology that generates