Jan 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) How can the component elements of an unknown material, such as a meteorite, be determined? X-ray fluorescence analysis can be used to identify an abundance of elements, by irradiating samples with X-rays and analyzing the spectrum they emit and can detect many elements simultaneously. For...
Supercomputer simulations transform coal-like material to amorphous graphite and nanotubes
Jan 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a warming world, coal can often seem the “bad guy.” But we can do other things with coal besides burn it. A team at Ohio University used PSC’s Bridges-2 system to carry out a series of simulations showing how coal might eventually be converted...
Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space
Jan 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed, for the first time, the energy transferring from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in space. Their findings offer direct evidence of previously theorized efficient growth, as predicted by the non-linear growth theory of waves. This should...