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Rendering of atomic motion
October 16, 2020
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Piezoelectric Crystals and the Missing Quadrupole Term
A computer rendering of a molecule. It appears like balls connected with sticks. There are lumpy clouds surround it that represent electron orbitals.
October 6, 2020
Machine Learning Speeds Up Quantum Chemistry Calculations
An artist's rendering of earthquake waves traveling through the ocean.
September 18, 2020
Undersea Earthquakes Shake Up Climate Science
A diagram showing the structure of a smooth nanowire compared with the structure of a rough, stepped nanowire.
September 17, 2020
Caltech and UCLA Researchers Discover Effective Pathway to Convert Greenhouse Gas into Valuable Products
Kaushik
September 11, 2020
Kaushik Bhattacharya Awarded 2020 Theodore von Kármán Prize
Flow of energy and revenues in a charging system
September 10, 2020
Pricing EV Charging Service with Demand Charge
Incorporation of hydrogen bond donors into the framework of cobalt aminopyridine macrocycles has been demonstrated to increase the rate of reaction for electrochemical CO2 reduction. Now further work has shown that electronic inductive effects imparted from chemical modification can influence catalysis through an orthogonal axis. Combined experimental and theoretical work suggests these inductive effects play a role in the basicity of critical reaction intermediates in the catalytic cycle. Credit: Reprinted with permission from Inorganic Chemistry. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02086 (2020) American Chemical Society.
September 1, 2020
Electronically Modified Cobalt Aminopyridine Complexes Reveal an Orthogonal Axis for Catalytic Optimization for CO2 Reduction
Research Figure: Catalytic cycle for reduction of a small molecule substrate via concerted proton-electron transfer
August 25, 2020
A Molecular Mediator for Reductive Concerted Proton-Electron Transfers via Electrocatalysis
JCAP Photo Montage
August 14, 2020
From Caltech Magazine: Converting Sunlight into Fuels
Avulsions 1
August 12, 2020
Sea-Level Rise Could Make Rivers More Likely to Jump Course
Hot carriers
August 7, 2020
Collecting Hot Carriers: New Process Harvests Excited Quasiparticles
A web of orange cells tangled with a thin blue matrix
August 7, 2020
Deprived of Oxygen, Layers of Bacteria Get Creative
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