(Nanowerk News) For years, scientists have been intrigued by how molecules move across surfaces. The process is critical to numerous applications, including catalysis and the manufacturing of ...

Guest molecules slice through droplets of DNA polymers in the form of a frontal wave / Basis for a better understanding of biological processes. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg ...

A team of researchers used a new technique, called high-resolution template matching, or HRTM, to uncover in unprecedented detail the movement of ribosomes -- the molecular structures that synthesize ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2023 – Wave energy technology is a proven source of power generation, but there is power inherent in every molecule of liquid on earth, even when the liquid is at rest. At the ...

Inside living cells, molecules are constantly on the move—binding, diffusing, interacting. An international competition, the 2nd AnDi Challenge, has now delivered a systematic comparison of analytical ...

The story “The Motion of Molecules Makes Electricity,” dated Oct. 23, 2023 (page 7), highlighted a recent paper published inAPL Materials by Luan et al. that purports to demonstrate the harvesting of ...

Studying the molecular motion of proteins reveals previously unseen binding sites that could be targeted by new drug candidate molecules. Some of the toughest challenges in treating disease are ...

At temperatures above absolute zero, molecules in any substance move constantly in a random manner. Now, researchers have developed a way to capture the energy from this motion of liquid molecules and ...

Professor Jiawen Chen and Associate Researcher Yan Wang from South China Normal University, in collaboration with Professor Ben L. Feringa's team at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, designed ...

Rotary molecular motors whose motion is controlled by light have been a topic of research for some time, with potential applications in synthetic mechanical systems and nanoactivation. Their ...