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Picoscience and a Plethora of New Materials (Yale University news story)
How Fungi Produce Compounds with Potential Pharmaceutical Applications (University of Michigan press release)
First Pictures of an Enzyme that Drives a New Class of Antibiotics (Washington University in St. Louis article)
Revealing Porous Materials’ Behavior under Pressure
A New Phase in Block Copolymers (University of California, Santa Barbara, press release)
A Highly Active Single-Atom Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
An Unusual Spin Configuration (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion article)
Uncovering a Weakness in a Top-Three Antibiotic Resistance Threat (University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine press release)
Finding the Cause of Capacity Loss in a Metal-Oxide Battery Material (Brookhaven National Laboratory press release)
When Kinetics and Thermodynamics Should Play Together (McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis press release)
Electron-behaving Nanoparticles Rock Current Understanding of Matter (Northwestern University "Northwestern Now" article)
Going Under the Surface of Laser-Induced Spattering
Superionic Crystals Can Make Better Rechargeable Batteries
Casting Light on New Benefits of Perovskite Solar Cells
Melting and Recrystallization Established Unambiguously in Shock-Compressed Silicon
Probing the Powering of Contractions in Heart Failure (UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine article)
New Polymer Films Conduct Heat Instead of Trapping It (MIT News article)
Prof. Tai-Chang Chiang of UIUC to Receive the 2019 APSUO Compton Award
The Stresses and Strains of a New Type of Chemistry
Optical “Tweezers” Combine with X-rays to Enable Analysis of Crystals in Liquids (Argonne National Laboratory press release)
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