Hydrogen peroxide reacts with copper to produce hydroxyl radicals with strong antibacterial properties. However, this requires high copper concentrations because two copper atoms have to come close ...

Researchers have developed a new material that can convert carbon dioxide into methanol using sunlight. The material is made up of copper anchored on nanocrystalline carbon nitride. This discovery ...

Buried deep within a copper mine in Brazil, a team of scientists has uncovered a new microorganism that could transform the dangerous way that metals, like copper, are mined around the world. “This ...

Scientists have discovered a way to control chemical reactions by carefully arranging copper atoms on a carbon-based material. With just tiny changes at the atomic scale, the same material can be ...

Hydrogen fuel cells may someday power automobiles and trucks, offering a source of energy that's free of carbon emissions and pollutants. But their potential has been limited thus far by the high cost ...

IBM Research scientists have developed a new technique to control the magnetism of a single copper atom, paving the way to allowing an individual atomic nucleus to store and process information.

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Laboratory for Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL have used computational methods to identify what could be the thinnest possible metallic wire, as well as ...

Physicists and chemist have made atoms of gold, silver and copper, known as non-magnetic metals, magnetic. The magnetism appears at the nanometric scale when the material is surrounded with previously ...

When foreign atoms and molecules are adsorbed onto surfaces, do they sit directly on top of the substrate atoms or do they settle into the crevices between them? The answer may be revealed using ...

Copper in small quantities is an essential nutrient but can also be toxic. Human immune cells use copper to fight invading pathogens. Some microorganisms, in turn, have evolved ways to take up copper ...

Scientists in China have learned how to turn cheap copper into “gold” — and it could have a significant impact on the price of precious metals. The Chinese research team managed to turn cheap copper ...