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In their research article, “ Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold ,” physicists revealed they were able to heat gold to over 19,000 Kelvin (33,740 degrees Fahrenheit), ...
Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a ...
Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing ...
Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...
In a step toward smarter materials, researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo collaborated with researchers from Switzerland to develop a smart hinge-like molecule that can indicate mechanical ...
Chevron announced it has leased mineral rights on almost 125,000 acres in southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas, marking the ...
The large difference in measured excited-state lifetimes for the two homoleptic Ru II complexes is attributed to a strong influence of steric interactions on the ligand field strength, which in turn ...
Excited states articles from across Nature Portfolio Excited states are those quantum states of an atom or a molecule with more energy than the ground state.
When fundamental particles, such as photons, electrons, and positrons, interact with molecules, they can promote electronic excitation. These electronically excited states play a key role in ...