/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In a new report now published in Nature Asia Materials, Kenshi Harada and a team in materials science and analytical science in Japan and France formed a new environment sensing device that explored the opto-ionic-electronic phenomena of an octahedral molybdenum metal (Mo6) cluster. The team built these nanomaterials, or atomic clusters, with metal atoms bound to each other with accompanying non-metallic atoms. They altered the properties of the materials for a variety of applications by adding functional substances. In this work, Harada et al. developed transparent films made of indium tin oxide on which they deposited hexamolybdenum atomic clusters to investigate the humidity and temperature dependence of the electric properties of the films and to understand how their conductivity altered with varying light conditions. The innovative material has applications as an atmospheric sensor. /news/2022-04-nanomaterials-atom-clusters-applications.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:20:01 EDT news568014359 In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still serving the scientific community as a rich source of information about the early stages of our solar system's evolution. Recently, scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) discovered a new mineral embedded in the space rock—one they believe to be among the oldest minerals formed in the solar system. /news/2012-06-scientists-primitive-mineral-meteorite.html Space Exploration Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:33:46 EDT news259936401