Gallium’s quirky liquid-state properties have pushed that element into the scientific spotlight recently, as researchers have tapped the liquid metal for applications in stretchable electronics and ...

A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which ...

A non-exhaustive summary of reported cases of cutaneous reactions caused by a metallic implant is given in Table 5. Although many of the patients were patch test positive to their implanted metals, it ...

Stanford researchers have discovered that, in the complex world of nanotechnology, five heads — ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The wide reach of corrosion, a multitrillion-dollar global problem, may someday be narrowed considerably thanks to a new, better approach to predict how metals react with water.

The reaction to synthetic chemist Hua-Jian Xu’s article started like a dripping faucet. Nature Catalysis published Xu’s paper online on Jan. 18, 2021 (DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-00564-z), and over the ...

A team at King’s College London has created a powerful new aluminum compound capable of doing the work of expensive rare ...

The discovery of graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of covalently bonded carbon atoms—inspired the research community to generate a variety of 2D materials. Graphene, MoS 2, the silicon equivalent of ...