Chloride ions do more than help neurons fire—they may also help control how genes are expressed

Chloride ions, best known for helping cells maintain fluid balance and electrical stability, may also play a more direct role ...
Nature

Enamel Formation and Ameloblast Ion Transport

Enamel formation, or amelogenesis, is an intricate developmental process in which specialised epithelial cells known as ameloblasts secrete enamel matrix proteins and orchestrate the mineralisation of ...
C&EN

Chromium ions can form clusters in molten salts

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 ...

Quantum entanglement between electrons and ions captured at attosecond timescale

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful at describing the behavior of matter at the atomic level. This success forces one ...
sciencex

Physicists of Mainz University investigate the formation of defects during phase transitions in crystals of ions

Research groups at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Physical-Technical Federal Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, working in collaboration with scientists at the University of Ulm and ...
Physics World

Trapped ytterbium ions could form backbone of a quantum internet, say researchers

Caught in a trap: the nanophotonic cavity used to create the ytterbium ion qubit. (Courtesy: Faraon lab/Caltech) Ions trapped nanoscale optical cavities could be used to distribute entangled quantum ...
科学技術振興機構

[Katsuya Teshima] Formation of super-ion conduction path in all-solid-state lithium ion rechargeable battery through design of the crystal phase-interface with hierarchically ...

We challenge a construction of scientific principle to develop the functional inorganic crystals with hierarchically controlled structures, ranging from 0.1 nm to 100 μm (crystal phase-interface), ...