Friday - April 24, 2026

Physics Tipoffs from TNS

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'Saturdays in the D' expands summer offerings for students and adults
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 10 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: Rapheal French poses with his certificate of completion. Image courtesy: Saturdays in the D DETROIT--Saturdays in the D returns for another summer of learning and enrichment for residents of Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. A partnership between the University of Michigan and the city of Detroit, the 2024 Saturdays in the D program provides free access to high-quality learning experiences for Detroit mid  more
ACS Applied Nano Materials Issues Research Articles in Vol. 7, Issue 9
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- ACS Applied Nano Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of nanomaterials, published research articles on the following topics in its May 10, 2024, edition (Vol. 7, Issue 9): Reviews: * Gout Management Using Nanocarrier Systems: A Review Letters: * Carbon Nanotube Yarns Tailored Using Dispersants and Surfactants for Flexible and Wearable Thermoelectri  more
Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in April 10, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 10, 2024, edition (Vol. 34, Issue 15): Reviews: * Brain-Inspired Organic Electronics: Merging Neuromorphic Computing and Bioelectronics Using Conductive Polymers * Two-Dimensional Memt  more
Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in April 3, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 3, 2024, edition. Here are excerpts: Perspectives: * Urea Electrosynthesis Accelerated by Theoretical Simulations Reviews: * Recent Advances in Shape Memory Polymers: Multifunctiona  more
Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in March 18, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its March 18, 2024, edition (Vol. 34, Issue 12): Reviews: * Improving the Stability of Halide Perovskites for Photo-, Electro-, Photoelectro-Chemical Applications * Covalent Organic Frameworks E  more
Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in March 25, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its March 25, 2024, edition (Vol. 34, Issue 13). Here are excerpts: Perspectives: * Dynamic Polyimide Dielectric Film: A Concept and Application Perspective Reviews: * Perovskite-Based Indoor  more
Advanced Materials Interfaces Issues Research Articles in April 15, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Materials Interfaces, a journal that says it covers an interdisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, materials science and life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its April 15, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 11): Research Articles: * Dynamic Orientation Control of Gold Nanorods in Polymer Brushes by Their Thickness Changes for Plasmon Switching * Enhancement of the Surface and Mechanical Properties of Polyurethane Coating T  more
Advanced Materials Interfaces Issues Research Articles in April 24, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Materials Interfaces, a journal that says it covers an interdisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, materials science and life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its April 24, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 12): Research Articles: * Optimizing Color Saturation in Colloidal Photonic Crystals by Control of Absorber Amount and Distribution * Contactless Scanning Near-Field Optical Dilatometry Imaging at the Nanoscale * Hybri  more
Advanced Materials Interfaces Issues Research Articles in April 4, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Materials Interfaces, a journal that says it covers an interdisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, materials science and life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its April 4, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 10): Research Articles: * Ice-Bridging Frustration by Self-Ejection of Single Droplets Results in Superior Anti-Frosting Surfaces * Fouling Inhibition by Replenishable Plastrons on Microstructured, Superhydrophobic Carbo  more
Advanced Materials Interfaces Issues Research Articles in March 22, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Materials Interfaces, a journal that says it covers an interdisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, materials science and life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its March 22, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 9): Research Articles: * Cu Direct Nanopatterning Using Solid-State Electrochemical Dissolution at the Anode/Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Interface * Annealing Temperature Effect on the Physical Properties of NiO Thin F  more
Advanced Materials Interfaces Issues Research Articles in May 6, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Materials Interfaces, a journal that says it covers an interdisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, materials science and life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its May 6, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 13): Research Articles: * Liquid DNA Coacervates form Porous Capsular Hydrogels via Viscoelastic Phase Separation on Microdroplet Interface Editor's Choice: * Surface Nanodroplet-Confined Engineering of Gold (I) -Thiolate  more
Advanced Photonics Research Issues Research Articles in April 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Photonics Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features photonics research in optics, physics, biophotonics, electrooptics, quantum photonics, on-chip photonics, nanophotonics, optofluidics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 5, Issue 4): Review: * Tailoring Electronic Properties of Colloidal Quantum Dots for Efficient Optoelectronics Research Articles: * hBN-Encapsulated Graphe  more
Advanced Photonics Research Issues Research Articles in May 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Photonics Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features photonics research in optics, physics, biophotonics, electrooptics, quantum photonics, on-chip photonics, nanophotonics, optofluidics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 5, Issue 5): Research Articles: * Parallel Diffractive Multi-Beam Pulsed-Laser Ablation in Liquids Toward Cost-Effective Gram Per Hour Nanoparticle Productivit  more
Advanced Physics Research Issues Research Articles in April 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Physics Research, a peer-reviewed journal, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 3, Issue 4): Research Articles: * Reconfigurable and Phase-Engineered Acoustic Metasurfaces for Broadband Wavefront Manipulation * A Memristive Oscillator * Momentum Transfer in Triboelectric Nanogenerators * Ultralow Voltage Resistive Switching in Hafnium-Zirconium Oxide * Tailoring on Rotational Symmetry of Liquid Crystal D  more
Advanced Physics Research Issues Research Articles in March 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Physics Research, a peer-reviewed journal, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2024 edition (Vol. 3, Issue 3): Research Articles: - Editor's Choice * Time-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy on a ZnO Surface Using an Extreme Ultraviolet Attosecond Pulse Pair * Microwave Absorption in Ge After Bombardment of Helium Ions Beam * A Refined Quasi-Static Method for Precise Determination of Piezoelectric Coefficient of Nan  more
Advanced Physics Research Issues Research Articles in May 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 11 -- Advanced Physics Research, a peer-reviewed journal, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition: Research Articles: * Electronic and Magnetic Properties of a Monolayer of VOTPP Molecules Sublimated on Ag(100) * Room-Temperature Macroscopic Ferromagnetism in Multilayered Graphene Oxide * Spontaneous Electric Polarization in Graphene Polytypes * Chiral Magnetic Phases in Moire Bilayers of Magnetic Dipoles * Demonstration of Two M  more
Advanced Science Journal Issues Research Articles in April 3, 2024 Edition
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Advanced Science, an open access journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its April 3, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 13): Reviews: * Proximity Sensing Electronic Skin: Principles, Characteristics, and Applications * Seamless Integration of Conducting Hydrogels in Daily Life: From Preparation to Wear  more
Advanced Science Journal Issues Research Articles in March 13, 2024 Edition
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Advanced Science, an open access journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its March 13, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 10): Reviews: * Organic Donor-Acceptor Systems for Photocatalysis * The Challenge of Superhydrophobicity: Environmentally Facilitated Cassie-Wenzel Transitions and Structural Design   more
Advanced Science Journal Issues Research Articles in March 20, 2024 Edition
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Advanced Science, an open access journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its March 20, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 11): Perspective: * Growth of Wafer-Scale Single-Crystal 2D Semiconducting Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers Reviews: * Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Advanced Sn-  more
Advanced Science Journal Issues Research Articles in March 27, 2024 Edition
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Advanced Science, an open access journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its March 27, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 12): Reviews: * Microneedle Sensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics * Product Peroxidation Inhibition in Methane Photooxidation into Methanol * The Development of Carbon/Silicon Heter  more
AIAA Journal Issues Research Articles in May 2024 Edition
RESTON, Virginia, May 10 -- The AIAA Journal, from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says that it covers theoretical developments and experimental results in the field of astronautics and aeronautics, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 62, No. 5): Regular Articles: * Waverider Design Using Osculating Method * Buzz Characteristics Under Fluid-Structure Interaction of Variable-Geometry Lip for Hypersonic Inlet * Fully Parabol  more
Applied Polymer Materials Issues Research Articles in May 10, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Applied Polymer Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of polymers, published research articles on the following topics in its May 10, 2024, edition (Vol. 6, Issue 9): Articles: * Measuring Heat Dissipation and Entropic Potential in Battery Cathodes Made with Conjugated and Conventional Polymer Binders Using Operando Calorimetry * High-Impact Epoxy Res  more
Georgia Institute of Technology: Tropical Revelations - Unearthing the Impacts of Hydrological Sensitivity on Global Rainfall
ATLANTA, Georgia, May 10 (TNSres) -- Georgia Institute of Technology issued the following news: Georgia Tech researcher Jie He set out to predict how rainfall will change as Earth's atmosphere continues to heat up. In the process, he made some unexpected discoveries that might explain how greenhouse gas emissions will impact tropical oceans, affecting climate on a global scale. "This is not a story with just one punch line," said He, assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Earth and At  more
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Gains Up to $515 Million Contract Modification
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following high-value contract information through the Pentagon on May 9, 2024. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC, a not-for-profit university affiliated research center, Laurel, Maryland, was awarded a ceiling $515,000,000 modification to previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (HR001122D0001) with cost-plus-fixed-fee term and completion task orders contemplat  more
Journal of Instrumentation Issues Research Articles in April 2024 Edition
TRIESTE, Italy, May 11 -- Journal of Instrumentation, a peer-reviewed journal from the International School of Advanced Studies that says it covers instrumentation in detector physics and accelerator science, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition: Papers: * Study of the interdigital electrode sensor at resonance frequency during water transition * The position resolution of the Gas Microchannel plate Pixel Detector * Software compensation for highly g  more
Journal of Plasma Physics Issues Research Articles in April 2024 Edition
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 11 -- The Journal of Plasma Physics, a journal that says it features laboratory plasmas, space physics and plasma astrophysics, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 90, Issue 2): Research Article: * Nonlinear electron scattering by electrostatic waves in collisionless shocks * Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster Letter: * Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity *  more
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: A Dislocation Density-Based Meshfree Computational Framework for Solid Phase Processing
WASHINGTON, May 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract This work proposes a computational modeling framework capable of predicting the behavior of materials when subject to solid phase processing (SPP). A macroscopic dislocation density based constitutive model with internal state variables correlated to microscopic dislocation densities is incorporated into a meshfree smoothed parti  more
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: First Principles Simulations of MgO (100) Surface Hydration at Ambient Conditions
WASHINGTON, May 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Developing a better understanding of water ordering and hydroxylation at oxide mineral surfaces is important across a breath of application spaces. Recent vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) measurements on MgO (100) surfaces at ambient conditions showed that water dissociates and hydroxylates the surface yielding a non-h  more
Professor Emeritus David Lanning, Nuclear Engineer and Key Contributor to the MIT Reactor, Dies at 96
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Remembering the research contributions of a nuclear engineering expert and passionate teacher. * * * By Taylor Tracy, Nuclear Reactor Lab David Lanning, MIT professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and a key contributor to the MIT Reactor project, passed away on April 26 at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 96. Born in Baker, Oreg  more
Sandia National Laboratories Issues Public Comment to DOE
WASHINGTON, May 10 (TNScapv) -- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has issued a public comment to the U.S. Department of Energy. The comment was written on April 1, 2024, and posted on May 7, 2024. The comment was on Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0007. * * * Sandia National Laboratories Response to Request for Information (RFI) Related to DOE's Responsibilities on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence POC: Anna Wakeland; Technical Business   more
U of G Appoints Dr. Moncef Nehdi as Dean, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
GUELPH, Ontario, May 11 --The University of Guelph issued the following news release: The University of Guelph is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Moncef Nehdi, as Dean, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS). An experienced academic leader, Nehdi comes to U of G from McMaster University where he has served as chair of the Department of Civil Engineering since 2022. Prior to that appointment, Nehdi was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   more
UTEP: Research and Innovation Honors 2024 Awardees at Annual Research Ceremony
EL PASO, Texas, May 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's El Paso campus issued the following news release: From nanoparticles and additive manufacturing to health sciences supporting historically underrepresented populations, UTEP researchers are making names for themselves in a wide range of fields. These individuals - all at different points in their careers - were honored at UTEP Research and Innovation's Annual Research Awards Reception and Ceremony. Sixty-six researchers received awar  more
Yale University: Search is on for Signs of the First Stars in the Universe
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 10 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: By Jim Shelton Astronomers at Yale and the University of Hong Kong have proposed a new strategy for finding the universe's first stars -- by looking for signs of their final, fiery flares. For years, scientists have searched for direct evidence of "Population III" stars, the first generation of stars that lit up the universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Formed from the pristine gas of  more