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With its first two Max Planck Centers in Singapore, the Max Planck Society is now also present in Southeast Asia
7+ hour, 16+ min ago (347+ words) Max Planck Society deepens its partnership with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) The Max Planck Singapore Center for Data-driven Chemistry therefore aims to generate reliable chemical data through automation and standardization. The goal is to create "AI-ready" datasets that make…...
Lowering the Entry Base for Materials Science Through a Friendly, Reliable AI Database
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (484+ words) A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that could make it much easier to discover better materials for clean energy technologies. The system, called Stable Ox-Cat, helps scientists identify stable metal oxide electrocatalysts " materials that play a key role in processes…...
Reliable Material Databases Bridge AI- and Experimental-Led Material Discovery
1+ week, 4+ day ago (497+ words) Materials databases lie at the heart of future data-driven discovery in energy-related fields, say researchers from Tohoku University. In a new article published in the journal Precision Chemistry, they examined how different types of databases, both computational and experimental, work…...
Crushing soda cans and the mathematics of corrugation formation
2+ week, 6+ day ago (435+ words) Many people have likely found themselves watching oddly satisfying videos of random objects being squashed by a powerful hydraulic press, but rarely people consider why things squash the way they do. One object that caught the eye of researchers at…...
Flexible gel can turn body heat into power for next-generation wearables
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (487+ words) A soft material developed by researchers at QUT can convert body heat into electricity, opening the door to self-powered wearable devices and more sustainable energy technologies. Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, the research found that the flexible hydrogel captured…...
ANSTO hosts IAEA Pacific Isotope Hydrology Training Workshop
3+ week, 5+ day ago (568+ words) ANSTO hosted an international training workshop on Pacific isotope hydrology at its Lucas Heights facility in Sydney from 16 " 20 March 2026, bringing together experts and water resource practitioners from across the Pacific and partner organisations. The workshop was delivered under the International…...
Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (448+ words) An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known " one whose electrons travel through its structure in a…...
Wheelock Lab expands capacity for mass spectrometry imaging
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (221+ words) The research group led by Craig Wheelock at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) has recently enhanced its analytical capabilities with the acquisition of two new mass spectrometers. With a total of six instruments now operational, the Wheelock Lab has become…...
Accelerating Catalyst Materials Discovery with Large Artificial Intelligence Models
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (510+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way scientists discover and design new materials. In a specially invited review published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Tohoku University researchers have highlighted how large AI models are redefining catalyst discovery and paving the…...
Electrically Detecting "Liquid-Crystal" Phase Promises Attractive Advancements in Magnets
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (540+ words) The best candidate for next-generation magnetic devices " technology that can power, store, sense or transport information " may be, counterintuitively, antiferromagnets. Now, a team led by researchers at Tohoku University have taken the first step toward developing antiferromagnetic technology. The researchers…...