Research Summaries

Membranes made from nanoparticles offer versatility because both the inorganic core and the organic ligand shell composition can be tuned

Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) forage in the Saharan desert in the full midday sun when surface temperatures reach up to 70

Scientists found that gas-phase oxo-exchange of the positively charged protactinium ion, PaO2+, with water was substantially

Organometallic halide perovskites are under development as solution-processed solar cells that are less costly and more flexible than silicon.

In 1994, researchers affiliated with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab theorized that it should be possible to produce nanotubes from a white

Nuclear physicists colliding football- and sphere-shaped ions discover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in the birth of the quark-gluon plasma.

Measurements of ANCs over the past decade have provided new information about rates of many stellar reactions that involve capturing a proton by

Antimatter nuclei as large as antihelium-4—containing two antiprotons and two antineutrons—have been observed in heavy-ion collisions

The neutron skin of the nucleus calcium-48 is much thinner than previously thought.

Herbivore digestion involves a large variety of enzymes that break woody plants into biofuel building blocks.