New theory describes light management in thin-film solar cells.
New microscopy method opens the door to understanding atomic-scale variations in chemistry and improved materials performance in solid oxide fuel cells.
Squeezing creates new class of material built from clusters of carbon atoms.
Researchers reveal that microorganisms are responsible for transforming mercury into methylmercury, a highly toxic form of mercury, in streams.
High-efficiency compound semiconductor solar cells can now be printed on flexible, plastics.
Nanoscale features in rocks enable more carbon dioxide to be trapped as a solid carbonate material underground.
Imaging tools aid research in global climate change, plant genetics, biofuels, agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
New calculations have quantified the boundaries and uncertainties of the ‘chart of the nuclides’—the extended periodic table of all matter.
Understanding how two microbes work together to produce the greenhouse gas methane.
Impacts of anthropogenic warming on tropical land region rainfall.
A microbe not known for cellulose degradation has 15 cellulases that may improve biofuel production.
Insights into the origin of ligninases can help develop processes to convert biomass into bioenergy.
