Sodium is in group 1. A sodium atom has one electron in its outer shell. The atom is more stable if it has a full outer shell. A sodium atom can lose its outer electron. It will still have 11 positive ...

Professor Dong-Myeong Shin and his team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the ...

Highly dilute metal ions can aggregate in a high-temperature ionic-liquid medium and form long-lived clusters. The unexpected finding, which is the result of a study that combines experiment and ...

(Nanowerk News) Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, such as the battery-powered device inside a cell phone that causes the phone to vibrate. When this process ...

Figure 1: Secondary and tertiary structure of the Azoarcus group I intron studied in this work. Figure 2: Mg 2+ promotes folding and function of the Azoarcus ribozyme. Figure 5: Conformational states ...

Things not always run smoothly. It may happen, actually, that when an object slides on another, the advancement may occur through a 'stop and go' series in the characteristic manner which scientists ...

As part of the goal of tackling climate change, more and more people are using electric vehicles, which produce just a fraction of the carbon dioxide emissions as their gasoline-powered counterparts.