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Malvern Panalytical’s Future Days Event Engages Partners on Latest Battery-Industry Trends and Insights

Malvern Panalytical, a leading analytical instrumentation supplier, held its unique forward-looking online event, ‘Future Days’, on November 8. The event’s battery track engaged customers, suppliers, an...

From Malvern Panalytical 12 Dec 2022

World-First Project to 'Self Heal' Cracked Concrete Using Sloppy Sludge Could Save $1.4 Billion Annual Repair Bill to Australia’s Sewer Pipes

Water treatment sludge could be used to prevent 117,000 kilometres of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in future, without any intervention by humans, helping to save $1.4 billion in annual maintenance costs.

12 Dec 2022

De Dietrich Enlarges its Tech Lab with Supercritical CO2 Technologies

The new equipment supplied by Thar Processes will help De Dietrich to test in-house and scale-up extraction and purification technologies for its customers in pharmaceutical and plant-based industry.

From De Dietrich Process Systems 12 Dec 2022

Revealing the Complex Magnetization Reversal Mechanism with Topological Data Analysis

Researchers develop a super-hierarchical and explanatory analysis of magnetization reversal that could improve the reliability of spintronics devices.

12 Dec 2022

Understanding the Thermal Behaviors of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

A team of researchers conducted a rigorous examination of thermal safety in lithium–sulfur pouch cells.

9 Dec 2022

Cell Wall Nanoengineering-Based Efficient Wood Power Generators

Water and wood could one day be all that is required to power a household. Scientists in Sweden have developed a method to produce electricity from these two renewable resources at a time when energy is a crucial issue for several millions of people globally.

9 Dec 2022

A Significant Step Toward Reliable and Durable Biobased Plastics

Researchers from the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group, under the direction of Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter, make a significant advancement toward the creation of rigid, fully biobased polyesters in a recent study published in Nature Communications.

9 Dec 2022

Au-Based Hybrid Nanomaterial Displays Optimal Selectivity for CO

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) has great potential for eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere to lessen pollution and for providing alternative energy with carbon monoxide as a component.

9 Dec 2022

Scientists Reveal Material with Exceptional Fracture Toughness

Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi).

9 Dec 2022

Rockwell Automation Introduces GuardLink 2.0 with new EtherNet/IP Interface

GuardLink® 2.0 is the world’s most advanced serially connected safety input solution designed to reduce downtime and installation costs. GuardLink 2.0 offers advanced diagnostics by way of the new Allen&#8...

From Rockwell Automation, Inc. 8 Dec 2022

Batteries of the Future: Flame Retardant Li-Ion Batteries

Advances in battery technology in recent decades have radically changed the world we live in, powering a vast array of devices in key applications, from smartphones and laptops to medical devices and electric vehicles, a...

By David J. Cross 8 Dec 2022

Transitioning to a Decarbonized Economy with Na-S Batteries

Investigators are hopeful that a new, inexpensive battery that can store four times as much energy and is produced at a far lower cost than lithium-ion batteries will drastically lower the cost of moving to a decarbonized economy.

8 Dec 2022

MOF-Templated Strategy for the Synthesis of Janus Carbon Materials

Modern precious metal catalysts are regarded to be expensive and inefficient compared to carbon-based electrocatalysts. Heteroatom doping can simply create highly active catalytic centers, but it also results in poorer electronic conductivity, impeding electrocatalysis.

8 Dec 2022

Researchers Design a Safe and Efficient Nanotorpedo for Drug Delivery

According to a paper published in Chemical Engineering Journal recently, a team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HMFL), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully designed a safe and efficient nanotorpedo for the delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs.

8 Dec 2022

New Polymer-Based Electrolyte for Flameproofing Lithium-Ion Batteries

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power phones, laptops, other personal electronics and electric cars, and are even used to store energy generated by solar panels. But if the temperature of these batteries rises too high, they stop working and can catch fire.

8 Dec 2022