Science Highlights
Below, you will find a summary of the very latest science highlights from across all three CARS sectors. This includes publications in various scientitific journals, magazines, and even published books. Be sure to check back often to see what is new!
You can find full listings of of science highlights and publications for each individual sector using the links on the right side of this page.
Science Highlights and Publications
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Incipient carbonate melting drives metal and sulfur mobilization in the mantle
Isra S. Ezad et al., Incipient carbonate melting drives metal and sulfur mobilization in the mantle.Sci. Adv.10,eadk5979(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adk5979
Pressure-Induced Changes in the Crystal Structure and Electrical Conductivity of GeV4S8
A Better Understanding of Bond Weakening
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Coordination-induced bond weakening (CIBW) motifs. (a) Traditional motif involving a reducing and Lewis acidic metal ion, (b) the multisite proton-coupled electron transfer motif evident in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem-II, (c)...
Tuning a Two-Dimensional Material
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Optimized DFT/PBE50 structures of Zn salts. In red, symmetries: a Zn porphyrin (Zn-2); b Zn porphene (Zn-1); c bond length map for P2mm and P4mm forms of Zn-1; d Zn z-isoporphene; e Zn s-isoporphene. In parentheses, calculated energies...
A Look at the Ionic Distribution Surrounding Nanocellulose
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS) data from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and the parallelepiped structure of CNCs and ionic shells surrounding them Nanocellulose, which is cellulose in nanostructure form that can be produced at...