Using pictures with atomic resolution, the mechanism of an important chemical reaction has finally be explained: When platinum nanoparticles act as catalysts on an iron oxide surface, the surface ...

Research in the field of nanoparticles has yielded a number of novel solutions in ceramics, cosmetics, biomedicine and electronics. Nanoparticles exhibit unexpected behavior when the atomic and ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus “sinks.” A critical nutrient for life, most phosphorus in the soil is organic — ...

A kinetically controlled synthesis has yielded a novel strontium-iron oxide with an unusual structure. The study, reported in Nature (2007, 450, 1062), may lead to new types of materials with useful ...

Using a special high-pressure chamber, scientists have discovered two new iron oxides in experiments at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and other facilities. The discovery points to a huge, ...

Most phosphorus in the environment is in an organic form that plants cannot directly use, and traditional understanding suggested only enzymes could convert it into the bioavailable inorganic form.