Impact Science

Acyl fluorides have recently gained much attention in transition-metal catalysis due to their stability and selective reactivity. However, their commercial production remains a challenge. A group of…

Efficient quantum computing is expected to enable advancements that are impossible with classical computers. Scientists from Japan and Sydney have collaborated and proposed a novel two-dimensional…

In a new study, scientists from Tokyo University of Science, led by Prof Hidenori Otsuka, have developed a novel biocompatible hydrogel that acts as a structural scaffold for the growth of cartilage-…

Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science led by Dr Tohru Higuchi, in their new study, explore how the efficiency of solid oxide fuel cells can be increased by lowering their operating…

Complex networks are ubiquitous in the real world, from artificial to purely natural ones, and they exhibit very similar geometric properties. Algorithms based on quantum mechanics perform well on…

The existing method for adding metals to organic materials is dangerous and laborious. Scientists from Korea have now developed a new method that is simple, safe, and cost-effective. 

The 2019 novel coronavirus (CoV) causes fatal pneumonia that has claimed over 1300 lives, with more than 52000 confirmed cases of infection by February 13, 2020, all in the span of just over a month…

Conversion of energy is a constant process but measuring the efficiency of this conversion is not an easy task. Quantifying the heat emission of the object that absorbs energy has been proven to be a…

The properties of the first few layers of water molecules in contact with the surface of materials are especially important in materials science. In a recent study led by Prof Takahiro Yamamoto of…

In complex fluids like cell nuclei, cytoplasm, polymeric fluids, supercooled water, and ionic liquids, molecules do not move in the same way as they do in simple liquids like water at room…