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Polymers, nanomaterials, surfaces, composites, crystals, and functional materials.
A computational study proposes a coordination-and-distance rule for hydrogen in metal defects and uses it to reproduce a two-peak thermal-desorption profile in tungsten.
Scientific publication4 min read
The two tryptophan forms produced different colors and particle arrangements, while absorbance at one wavelength tracked the share of d-tryptophan in test mixtures.
RSC advances4 min read
Mice given the nanoparticle formulation Nowarta110 through the skin, oral mucosa or vagina once daily for 12 weeks showed no consistent treatment-related harm across clinical, laboratory, organ and tissue checks.
Nanoscale4 min read
A rat study found higher serum calcium, phosphate and alkaline phosphatase in fracture groups receiving free zingiberene or a zingiberene-selenium formulation than in fracture controls. The formulation's alkaline phosphatase reading was higher than free zingiberene's, but magnesium did not differ significantly between treatments.
Frontiers in veterinary science4 min read
A hydrogel carrying Lycium barbarum glycopeptide released more cargo under acidic lab conditions and was associated with faster wound closure in mice, but the study did not establish long-term safety or performance in other wound models.
Drug delivery4 min read
Ferucarbotran samples produced increasingly anisotropic SAXS patterns as the static magnetic field rose, giving researchers a way to compare three measures of orientational order.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids3 min read
A preprint reports broad, large dielectric responses in pressed BiFeO3 nanopowders with nominal Sm substitutions. The strongest features depended on temperature, frequency and composition, while phase mixtures and particle agglomeration left the mechanism unresolved.
Scientific publication4 min read
A theoretical preprint reports exact cancellation of the long-range infrared divergence for same-parity elastic exciton scattering, while opposite-parity inelastic coupling remains finite in the model.
Scientific publication3 min read
A laboratory comparison found distinct Raman changes around the ice-water transition, but the proposed link to latent heat still needs direct calorimetric validation.
Scientific publication3 min read
A laboratory study of hafnia ferroelectric films found that some regions roughened and leaked during electrical scanning, while others stayed smooth and switched. The researchers link the contrast to uneven chemistry at the underlying interface and report a processing test on one film.
Scientific publication5 min read
A literature-based Feature Article traces how polaritonic systems exchange energy, carry excitations and show reported changes in charge mobility, while highlighting gaps in the models used to describe them.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)5 min read
A computational preprint reports lower adsorption-enthalpy errors from new MOF models, alongside a large dataset and a literature benchmark that leave broader performance questions open.
Scientific publication4 min read
A critical review of lead-halide perovskites presents a testable framework linking their electronic structure, screening and carrier motion. It also warns that claims about universal defect tolerance, bulk ferroelectricity and dynamic Rashba effects remain unproven.
Scientific publication5 min read
A laboratory preprint reports that photon emission from transmitted helium ions varied strongly with exit charge state, while differences among carbon, silicon and silicon carbide were small.
Scientific publication3 min read
A laboratory preprint reports that light may leave optically addressable traps in BaF2, with changes in luminescence yield and a spatial readout of excitation sites.
Scientific publication4 min read
A first-principles study of CeCrB4 finds a tiny calculated energy edge for ferromagnetism and a molecular-like pattern in localized Cr–Cr states.
Scientific publication4 min read
A laboratory comparison of MoS2 growth on five crystalline substrates found sharply different domain shapes, coverage patterns and optical responses under nominally matched conditions.
Scientific publication4 min read
A study of three Ag-Au-Pd-Pt thin-film libraries found that work function predicted acidic hydrogen-evolution activity, but correcting hydrogen adsorption for surface coverage left work function with only a small additional contribution.
Scientific publication4 min read
A catalyst made with cyanobacterial extract achieved higher reported crystal violet degradation and total organic carbon removal than chemically synthesized NiO/CoO, though the tests used prepared dye solutions rather than real wastewater.
Scientific reports5 min read
Amine-functionalized biochar made from walnut shells produced high reported yields for two reaction types in water at room temperature, but the study was small and descriptive.
RSC advances4 min read
The study compared Bauhinia purpurea leaf-extract-mediated zinc oxide nanoparticles made by co-precipitation and sol-gel synthesis in carbon-steel corrosion tests, with lower dissolved iron reported at 100 ppm than in the blank.
Discover nano4 min read
Intercalated WTe2 compounds containing potassium, rubidium or cesium showed a lower-symmetry crystal arrangement and progressively wider spacing between layers. Optical analysis and DFT calculations indicated narrow gaps, while temperature-dependent electrical measurements reported semiconducting behavior for Rb0.5WTe2 crystals.
Dalton Trans. (2026) 55 (8), 3296-33094 min read
A combined photoemission and modeling study found that Fe and Mn deposits were associated with different surface-band changes in lead-tin selenide, depending on coverage and crystal orientation.
Scientific publication4 min read
A preprint argues that cobalt ordering and correlated electronic states may help explain why a layered iron telluride remains antiferromagnetic near 250 K.
Scientific publication5 min read
A computational materials study used generated crystal structures and energy calculations to screen rare-earth alloys, finding its highest modeled magnetization in iron-rich candidates while leaving experimental stability untested.
Scientific publication4 min read
A numerical study reports two crack-front regimes, with fingering above a critical contrast and front stiffness vanishing in that regime.
Scientific publication4 min read
A review of direct-current thermo-mechanical testing finds that the method can support mechanism studies, model calibration and rapid creep screening, but it is not a universal substitute for bulk furnace testing.
Scientific publication4 min read
A modeling study highlights NiPt- and CoIr-based alloy families as the main source of its largest predicted anomalous Hall and Nernst responses. The authors propose exchange splitting, the separation between spin channels, as a way to choose parent compounds for chemical substitution. The findings are computational predictions from a virtual crystal screen.
Scientific publication5 min read
A hierarchical modeling workflow screened 30,364,908 generated structures and produced 97 predicted room-temperature solid-state electrolyte candidates, most of them halides. Agreement with independent experimental halide patterns was a consistency check, not direct validation.
Scientific publication3 min read
Three Co-doped cerium oxide film conditions showed composition-dependent magneto-optical signals, including around five times the Faraday rotation for Co10 compared with Co5 near 3.5 eV, with only a few percent more absorption.
Scientific publication5 min read
Nominally 10% V-substituted RuO2 single crystals were uniform, metallic and paramagnetic, with 60% lower room-temperature resistivity than pristine RuO2. The authors reported no altermagnetism in the studied crystals, while calculations pointed to larger electronic changes at higher modeled substitution.
Scientific publication4 min read
Selected computational cases in bcc iron produced different limits on how many Heisenberg exchange parameters could be reliably resolved, ranging from one to ten.
Scientific publication4 min read
A modeling preprint reports that Cu3 had the most favorable calculated adsorption energy for six gases among Cu1 to Cu5 on a boron-vacancy hBN/SiC surface.
Scientific publication4 min read
A laboratory preprint reports a simulation-based low-energy muon calibration for effective free-electron concentrations in n-type 4H-SiC, alongside depth-resolved depletion and implantation-damage signals.
Scientific publication4 min read
An arXiv preprint reports a field-linked transverse thermal signal in two diamond crystals, including a 340 W m−1 K−1 transverse conductivity at 10 T. The authors propose an intrinsic phonon-based explanation, but the small study leaves that mechanism and its generality unresolved.
Scientific publication4 min read
A preprint review examines how Bayesian optimization and related active-learning methods are being used in self-driving materials laboratories. It highlights physics-informed approaches and representative results across chemistry, batteries, semiconductors, alloys and quantum materials.
Scientific publication4 min read
A laboratory study reports resonant photovoltage features in unbiased monolayer graphene and WSe2/graphene devices. The signals appeared in two magnetic-field geometries, followed a resonance-frequency relation, and included multiple features whose microscopic origin remains unresolved.
Scientific publication3 min read
A new system combines literature-derived synthesis records with chemical, structural and thermodynamic information to suggest complete routes for making inorganic crystals. Its strongest results came on held-out benchmarks, while specialized high-pressure and thin-film cases remained harder.
Scientific publication4 min read
The proposed calculation reproduced finite-difference symmetry patterns in SrMnO3, but a key derivative and exchange value remained sensitive to numerical and model choices.
Scientific publication4 min read
A computational comparison found that TEM diffraction models can disagree more in heavy, anisotropic strontium titanate than in diamond, while a larger detector collection area improved agreement in diamond.
Scientific publication4 min read