The interaction between solid matter and positron (the antiparticle of electron) has provided important insights across a variety of disciplines, including atomic physics, materials science, ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Research groups led by Prof. Xu Tongwen and Prof. Li Xingya from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have proposed the concept of total dehydration of ions, and prepared ...

A new study offers a clearer view of how mechanical stress and electrochemical processes interact inside lithium-ion ...

New computer calculations have revealed that a century-long assumption in chemistry is wrong. At the crux of the matter is the movement of the hydroxide ion, OH –, in water. Hydroxide ions and protons ...

By electrochemically introducing phosphonate ester groups into conductive polymer films, researchers at Science Tokyo have ...

Physicists are taking their quantum powers to the next level — the next energy level, that is. Researchers have controlled the motion of a trapped ion, an electrically charged atom, better than ever ...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, ...

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