Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair of electrons, form the scaffolding that underpins the ...

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully observed how valence electrons behave in organic molecules. This gives ...

As the space industry expands, GaN will play an increasingly crucial role in enabling more ambitious and efficient space ...

First developed for the Large Hadron Collider, hybrid pixel detectors are now changing the face of X-ray imaging in medical ...

Two properties of carbon which lead to the huge number of carbon compounds we see around us are given below: Carbon has six valence electrons which is a high number of valency. Covalent bonding ...

bound electrons become free electrons. In the process, they jump from a low energy level (valence band) to a higher one (conduction band) and current flows. In the case of silicon, the band gap is ...

Materials scientist Luis Rangel DaCosta is applying machine learning methods to speed analyzing high-resolution images. The ...

The catalyst they designed, called Ni@C-MoOx, can selectively transfer external electrons produced via the catalysis of the hydrogen oxidation reaction without transferring electrons from the Ni ...

The team’s innovation included building a device that could produce photons with the energy required to knock off core electrons, i.e. non-valence electrons that don’t participate in chemical ...

Because graphene’s conduction and valence bands meet at discrete points (known as Dirac points), it has two such valleys. In the quantum valley Hall effect, the electrons in these different valleys ...

But Cr-135 simultaneously displays effects that suggest its electrons are ‘strongly correlated’ — an enticing hint that there could be many more properties yet to be found in the 135 kagome ...