Inspired by the bacteria-killing wings of insects like cicadas, scientists have developed a natural antibacterial texture for use on food packaging to improve shelf life and reduce waste.
New research has been published with the aim of evaluating the processing and refinement characteristics of carbon black and graphene nanoplatelets within a matrix of nitrile butadiene rubber.
By Reginald Davey
18 Mar 2022
Researchers from Malaysia, China, and the Philippines have collaborated on a paper investigating how synthetic polymers are used in the creation of public art. The results of their findings have been published online this week in the journal Polymers.
By Reginald Davey
18 Mar 2022
Writing in Polymers, a team of researchers from Oslo Metropolitan University and the University of Oslo in Norway have investigated the void content characterization and constituent components of composite polymer materials.
By Reginald Davey
18 Mar 2022
In an article recently published in the journal ACS Materials Letters, researchers discussed the designing of shape memory hydrogels by using a universal strategy.
By Surbhi Jain
18 Mar 2022
Professor Iván Mora Seró of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló’s Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) led a research team that improved the efficiency and durability of tin perovskite solar cells.
All-inorganic lead-free luminescent metal halides doped with ns2-metal ions have displayed great promise in next-generation solid-state lighting owing to their superior optical properties and easy solution processibility.
A group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal ACS Materials Letters that demonstrated the feasibility of using liquid metal micromesh in wearable electronics to achieve long-term wearing comfort.
By Samudrapom Dam
18 Mar 2022
In a recent study published in the journal Materials, researchers from China studied the improvement in properties of concrete due to the addition of graphene oxide (GO).
By Chinmay Saraf
18 Mar 2022
The search for thermoelectric materials that efficiently convert temperature changes into electric voltage is a difficult one. A material must conduct both small amounts of heat and large amounts of electricity to perform optimally.
Many (organic) molecules exist as a mixture of two almost identical molecules, with the same molecular formula but one important difference: A single hydrogen atom sits in a different position.
New chemical separations enable battery recycling, biodiesel.
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has succeeded in developing a new approach to the design of thermoelectric materials by constructing a database of electronic structure parameters correlated with materials' thermoelectric conversion properties and by a comprehensive analysis of the database.
In an article recently published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, researchers discussed the development of a spectroscopic method for non-destructive and quick cucumber screening based on the maximum nitrate accumulation limit.
By Surbhi Jain
17 Mar 2022
In recent times, iodine is more and more incorporated with zinc anodes to make sustainable zinc–iodine (Zn–I2) batteries (ZIBs) because of its high redox capability (I2/I-, 0.62 V vs. regular hydrogen electrode) and large hypothetical capacity (211 mAh g-1).