The separation process can be conducted using various instruments, but the most fitting method depends on the mixture’s properties. This article covers the importance of solid-liquid separation in the ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

Physicists have finally filmed a crystal as it melts and discovered that, under the right conditions, it refuses to behave ...

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Near-infrared spectroscopy, known as NIR spectroscopy or NIRS, is a long-established analytical technique. For over 30 years, it has proven to be a fast and reliable method for measuring chemical and ...

Since the invention of semiconductors half a century ago, they have become an integral part of our lives. Be it smartphones or automobiles, everything runs on semiconductor chips. As semiconductor ...

A microfluidic system with channels lined with magnetic liquids can ease the flow of samples and safely transport delicate cells, possibly helping to miniaturize microfluidic devices (Nature 2020, DOI ...

Infrared spectroscopy has been used for over 100 years, and it has become a robust method, relied upon by numerous applications to identify samples and detect impurities within them, as well as to ...

Rae Robertson-Anderson receives funding from the US National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and National Institutes of Health. Imagine you’re eating dinner. You try to ...