Tiny copper 'nano-flowers' have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing.

Metals are well-known for their plasmonic properties—collective oscillations of free electrons that produce unique optical ...

Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as ...

Catalysis is fundamental to creating materials ... “There's a Nobel Prize, 2015 or 2016, in computational science where they proposed for the first time that […] there is an electric field ...

UC Davis researchers developed stable platinum catalysts for hydrogenation, enhancing efficiency with nanoscale confinement techniques on cerium oxide islands.

Evaluating various sensing mechanisms, this review identifies high-performance materials for greenhouse gas detection, ...

A new collaboration has unlocked new potential for the field by creating a novel high-performance organic electrochemical neuron that responds within the frequency range of human neurons.

Researchers have integrated perovskite solar cells with copper nano-flowers that utilize sunlight to convert CO2 into complex ...

Scientists have made an advancement in the field of electrocatalysis. Their latest research, published in the journal Nature ...

Heterogeneous catalysis is a type of catalysis in which the catalyst occupies a different phase from the reactants and products. This may refer to the physical phase — solid, liquid or gas ...

This episode, science reporter Dan Charles explains why abandoned land has conservationists and researchers asking: If we love nature, do we tend it or set it free?