Silk protein fibres produced by silkworms and spiders are renowned for their unparalleled mechanical strength and extensibility arising from their high-β-sheet crystal contents as natural materials.

Vibrational spectroscopy is a high-performance analytical technique commonly used in chemistry, materials science, biology, and environmental research. Infrared spectroscopy (IR) is the most ...

The integration of vibrational spectroscopy with advanced theoretical methods has substantially deepened our understanding of organic compounds. These techniques, which include Fourier Transform ...

The ultrafast structural dynamics inside the bilayers of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles with 70, 90, and 125 nm diameters were directly measured with ...

IR spectroscopy allows studying large sample areas with very high local resolution. A new detection system examines all points on the image simultaneously, ensuring average measuring time of only a ...

Buckyballs’ large size and intricate structure have long captured scientists’ interest, even if practical applications for the 60-carbon molecules remain elusive. Now, more than 30 years after their ...

The potassium sodium niobate (K x Na 1 −x)NbO 3 (KNN) family with the perovskite structure is a technologically important lead-free piezoelectric material. At first, the nature of end members, the ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered ...