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Researchers reveal the structure of individual chemical bonds using specialized imaging techniques.
Visible lasers offer exquisite control of x-ray light in a tabletop apparatus, potentially providing access to new insights to chemical reactions, proteins, and even atoms’ inner workings.
Previously unobserved scattering shows unexpected sensitivity to bound electrons, providing new insights into x-ray interactions with matter and opening the door to new probes of matter.
New spectroscopic probe will aid design of more efficient sunlight-to-fuel devices.
Scientists discover a direct electron-transfer process with a higher efficiency for charge separation than previous mechanisms.
Scientists show how a buckyball buffer helps conduct electricity in only one direction, vital for molecule-sized circuits.
Predicting nanosystems with unanticipated properties can advance next-generation solar panels and electronics.
Researchers develop breakthrough technique for non-invasive electron microscopy for soft materials
New findings will help extend the lifetime of catalysts used to process bio-oils in liquid systems.
Computer algorithm recovers histories and dynamics on timescales much faster than uncertainties inherent in experimental data.
Hollow shape-selected platinum nanocages represent a new class of highly active catalysts.
The world’s fastest images of nitrogen molecules rotating in a gas were captured using electron diffraction.
