Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a powerful method to look deep inside single-atom catalysts—materials where every ...

Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie ...

Previously, it has been impossible to capture the high-resolution images of nitrogenase, the only enzyme capable of reducing nitrogen into ammonia, during catalytic action. Now researchers report ...

For instance, yellow diamonds contain nitrogen, while blue diamonds contain boron ... Instead, scientists believe the pink hue is a result of a distortion in the diamond’s atomic lattice structure.

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Nov 30, 2018: Atomic nitrogen route to new 2D semiconductors (Nanowerk News) A simple and non-destructive fabrication technique could aid the manufacture of more energy efficient two-dimensional (2D) ...

This atomic hard drive, developed by Sander Otte and his colleagues at Delft University, features a storage density that’s 500 times larger than state-of-the-art hard disk drives.

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are atomic-scale defects in the lattice structure of diamond. They consist of a substitutional nitrogen atom adjacent to a vacant lattice site. NV centers have emerged as ...

Using the invariant mass technique, they were able to find strong evidence of the existence of the nitrogen-9 nucleus, challenging previous interpretations of nuclear structure.