Hidden proton pathways emerge as ultrathin polymer film method splits interface signals

Understanding how protons move at the interface between polymers and electrode materials is essential for improving fuel cells and related energy devices. However, conventional impedance measurements under inert conditions have long masked these interfacial contributions, showing only a single, merged signal. Now, researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Tokyo University of Science and University of Calgary, have developed a method to experimentally separate and quantify proton transport at individual interfaces in ultrathin ionomer films. The study was published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

What is the heaviest element in the universe? Are there infinitely many elements? Where and how could superheavy elements be created naturally? The heaviest abundant element known to exist is uranium, with 92 protons (the atomic number "Z"). But scientists have succeeded in synthesizing superheavy elements up to oganesson, with a Z of 118. Immediately before it are livermorium, with 116 protons and tennessine, which has 117.

This video draws inspiration from The Feynman Lectures on Physics, presenting concepts the way Feynman approached them.

You think atoms are like tiny solar systems—a nucleus in the center with electrons orbiting around it like planets. That picture is in every textbook, every science museum. But here's the problem: it's completely wrong. In this video, inspired by Richard Feynman's teaching style, we reveal what's ACTUALLY inside an atom, and why everything you learned in school was a comfortable lie.

Electrons don't orbit. They don't have definite positions. The atom is not mostly empty space. And at the bottom of it all, there are no "things"—just quantum fields, wave functions, and mathematical patterns that somehow produce the illusion of solid matter.

From the measurement problem to the Pauli exclusion principle, from quantum superposition to why atoms don't collapse, Feynman's approach strips away the cartoon pictures and forces you to confront the deeply strange reality of quantum mechanics.

If you thought you understood what matter is made of, prepare to have that understanding completely demolished.

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