Electron microscope technique achieves sub-Ångström resolution with lower cost and energy

A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved an advance in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented clarity ...
C&EN

Does the 4f Electron Configuration Affect Molecular Geometries? A Joint Computational, Vibrational Spectroscopic, and Electron Diffraction Study of Dysprosium Tribromide

Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, 1521 Budapest, Hungary, and Department of Chemistry, ...

Catalyst design strategy enhances green urea synthesis efficiency

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has constructed a copper (Cu ...
C&EN

Theoretical Electron Density Distributions for Fe- and Cu-Sulfide Earth Materials: A Connection between Bond Length, Bond Critical Point Properties, Local Energy Densities, and ...

Department of Geosciences, and Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National ...
IEEE

Theoretical Analysis of Sensitivity Enhancement by Graphene Usage in Optical Fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors

Abstract: Aiming to investigate the graphene usage in optical fiber surface plasmon resonance sensor probes, a theoretical analysis of sensitivity, reflectance, normalized transmitted power, full ...
IEEE

High-performance hot-electron sensing with planar Cu-ZnO junctions

Abstract: Optical sensors quantitatively give the change of environment by interrogating spectral shift caused by the change in analyte refractive index. Herein, we present a design of hot-electron ...