Research Summaries

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

An important obstacle to realizing spintronics is the amplification of small spin signals. In conventional electronics, amplification of an

The big bang should have yielded equal amounts of matter and antimatter, yet observations suggest that there is very little antimatter in the

Under helium plasma exposure in tokamak-relevant conditions, nanotendril “fuzz” will grow on tungsten plasma-facing components in a

Various optical elements are routinely used in modern synchrotron sources and X-ray free-electron lasers to confine the X-ray beam and focus it

Keeping ion beams cool keeps the particles tightly packed, so more ions collide to generate data. RHIC physicists will use relatively cool

To make 5H, the researchers used a reaction that removed a single proton from energetic 6He nuclei produced by the National

An international team of scientists working at the Molecular Foundry has revealed how interactions between electrons and ions can slow down the

Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they’re relatively inexpensive and