Quantum materials, defined by their photon-like electrons, are opening new frontiers in material science. Researchers have ...

The distribution of outermost shell electrons, known as valence electrons, of organic molecules was experimentally observed for the first time by a team led by Nagoya University in Japan. As the ...

The scientists recorded the changes in angle of x-ray beams scattered by ammonia molecules. From that they could work out where the electrons keeping the atoms in the molecule together as it changes ...

For the first time, scientists visualized how electrons behave during a chemical reaction, which could help reduce unwanted ...

For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect, frictionless fluid with electrical properties described by a universal quantum ...

Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer ...

In an Auger process, the energy released when an electron from a higher energy level falls into a deeper level results in the emission of an energetic electron whose energy is characteristic of the ...

Electrons in one particular solid phase of plutonium are complex characters: while bound to atoms, in a quantum-mechanical mixture of two different valence states, they also roam freely throughout the ...