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 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration combines two possible types of surface layers for a catalyst that performs the water-splitting reaction, the first step in making hydrogen fuel. The gray surface, top, is lanthanum... view more  Credit: CUBE3D Graphic Scientists crafting a nickel-based catalyst used in making hydrogen fuel built it one atomic layer at a time to gain full control over its chemical properties. But the finished material didnt behave as they expected: As one version of the c...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists extended their technique to produce graphene in a flash to tailor the properties of 2D dichalcogenides molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide, quickly turning them into metastable metallics... view more  Credit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 11, 2021) - Rice University scientists have extended their technique to produce graphene in a flash to tailor the properties of other 2D materials. The labs of chemist James Tour and mate...

 E-Mail Photosynthetic organisms tap light for fuel, but sometimes theres too much of a good thing. New research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals the core structure of the light-harvesting antenna of cyanobacteria or blue-green algae -- including key features that both collect energy and block excess light absorption. The study, published Jan. 6 in Science Advances, yields insights relevant to future energy applications. Scientists built a model of the large protein complex cal...

Date Time Orange is new ‘block’ Photosynthetic organisms tap light for fuel, but sometimes there’s too much of a good thing. New research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals the core structure of the light-harvesting antenna of cyanobacteria or blue-green algae – including key features that both collect energy and block excess light absorption. The study, published Jan. 6 in Science Advances, yields insights relevant to future energy applications. Scientists built a model of...

Date Time Insights Through Atomic Simulation A recent special issue in The Journal of Chemical Physics highlights Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) contributions to developing two prominent open-source software packages for computational chemistry used by scientists around the world. PNNL researchers have been instrumental in developing the software packages, called NWChem and CP2K. These programs offer complementary approaches to calculating electronic structure, which is fundam...

Rice Scientists Make Hybrid Particles by Coupling Gold Nanoparticles with Soft Polymers Written by AZoNanoDec 23 2020 Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility o...

Rice scientists show how coated nanoantennas retain energy to potentially catalyze chemical reactions Bigger is not always better, but here’s something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility of catalytic p...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists coupled gold nanoparticles with soft polymers that pull energy from the golds plasmonic response to light. That energy can then be used to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.... view more  Credit: Emily Searles/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and S...

Dec 16, 2020 By Mark Golden Yi Cui, a preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability technologies, as well as an educator and entrepreneur, will become the next director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy. Yi Cui, Stanford materials science professor and incoming director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. (Credit: Feng Pan) Cui, professor in Stanford’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering and professor of photon sci...