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Exploring the Thermoelectric Properties of Tin Selenide Nanostructures

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Single crystal tin selenide (SnSe) is a semiconductor and an ideal thermoelectric material; it can directly convert waste heat to electrical […]

Taming Chaos: Calculating Probability in Complex Systems

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. […]

The Search for Dark Matter Widens

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Astronomers have observed that galaxies rotate with such great speed they should be torn apart, yet they are not. It is […]

Designing Diamonds for Medical Imaging Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2018 — Japanese researchers have optimized the design of laboratory-grown, synthetic diamonds. This brings the new technology one step closer to enhancing biosensing […]

The View from Inside Supersonic Combustion

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — In a jet engine, the flow of air is slowed down to increase the temperature and pressure for combustion — burning […]

Measuring Electrical Conductance Across A Single Molecule

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — When noble metals, like gold, are treated with an aliphatic thiol, like alkanethiol, a uniform monolayer — a layer only one […]

‘Frequency Combs’ ID Chemicals Within the Mid-Infrared Spectral Region

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — Chemical compounds all carry distinctive absorption “fingerprints” within the mid-infrared spectral region of 2 to 12 microns. This offers an opportunity […]

Thermally Driven Spin Current in DNA

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how […]

Shaken, and Stirred: Scaling Up Bioreactors’ Fluid Dynamics

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2018 — Bioreactors are widely used to produce different therapeutics in the biopharmaceutical and regenerative medicine industries. Drug development relies on small multi-well […]