(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer ...

Keeping cool: artist’s impression of how atoms (red) are held in place with laser beams and the ion (blue) with electric fields. (Courtesy: University of Amsterdam) A new technique that allows ...

An international team of researchers have found a better way to separate two rare and important gases—xenon and krypton—that ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying structure of the atom, atoms and isotopes and ions. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you! You can ...

Polarisability determines the force with which an inhomogeneous external electric field acts on the ions of an ion beam. However, it can be quite tricky to obtain accurate values for this force. Now, ...

Since the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was proposed by the United States, Chinese government has launched the Materials Genome project in 2016. By using artificial intelligence and machine ...

(Nanowerk News) When single particles like atoms and ions bond, molecules emerge. Such bonds between to particles can arise if they have for example opposite electrical charges and hence attract each ...

The full control over all quantum mechanical degrees of freedom of a chemical reaction allows the identification of fundamental interaction processes and the steering of chemical reactions. This task ...

Scientists at NIST have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer, a versatile ion source that is expected to have broad application in ...

The molecule observed at the University of Stuttgart exhibits a special feature: It consists of a positive electrically charged ion and a neutral atom in a so-called Rydberg state. These Rydberg atoms ...