Research Summaries

Scientists reveal oxygen’s hidden talent for filling atomic gap in 2D semiconductors & the surprising role of electron spin in electronic conductivity

Scientists create flexible, ultrathin films of nanoparticles using a polymer ‘corona’ approach.

New finding may help explain why we develop chronic diseases and cancer as we age…and even why food decomposes over time.

Soils contain a large diversity of unknown RNA viruses that infect fungi and possibly plants and animals.

New approach doubles the current driven by microwave heating at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.

Material traps noble gases at above-freezing temperatures, a difficult and important industrial challenge.

Scientists created the Parker spiral – the spiral magnetic field structure of the Sun due to its rotation – in the lab.

Collaboration between experiment and theory expands fundamental understanding of the chemistry of exotic radioactive heavy elements.

A next-generation plastic can be recycled again and again into new materials of any color, shape, or form.

Researchers have engineered an all-solid state nanolaser system that can operate continuously at room temperature.