BES Highlights

Researchers combine solar energy, electrochemistry, and thermal catalysis to remove the need for fossil fuel-driven chemical conversions.

A new quantum algorithm speeds up simulations of coupled oscillators dynamics.

Theorists propose a new approach to electroluminescent cooling that works like inverted solar photovoltaic cells.

Ultrafast electron imaging captures never-before-seen nuclear motions in hydrocarbon molecules excited by light.

Ultrafast X-ray experiments provide direct evidence that interaction of light with a hydrocarbon molecule produces strained molecular rings.

Copper catalysts play an unexpected oxidizing role during unassisted photocatalysis when coupled with plasmonic light absorbers.

Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging reveals atomic rearrangements long suspected to be crucial in the photochemistry of bromoform.

Excess oxygen on the surface of the metal oxide catalyst copper oxide promotes hydrogen oxidation but suppresses carbon monoxide oxidation.

Researchers leveraged advanced X-ray imaging for a nondestructive way to peer inside complex 3D nanomaterials with record resolution.

Robotic stacking of 2D layers provides the atomically clean interfaces critical for high performance assembled materials.