Nitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through a solid. This groundbreaking discovery in quantum physics, led by MIT physicist Riccardo ...

How Scientists Mapped the Shape of an Electron Electrons exhibit a dual nature as it behave both as particles and as waves. Mapping their shape has been challenging due to their ability to move in ...

Magnetic materials have become indispensable to various technologies that support our modern society, such as data storage ...

Breakthrough in N2 activation! This study unveils an electron catalysis strategy that directly converts N2 into azo compounds ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

albeit with slightly larger slices of bread made from cyclooctatetraene (COT), which is a better fit for the heavy metal’s 5f electron orbitals. Sandwiches of COT with other actinides soon ...

Pitt researcher Karl Johnson and scholar Priyanka Bholanath Shukla collaborate to help strengthen an essential electron theory ...

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While ...