NIMS and Softbank Corp. have developed a lithium-air battery with an energy density over 500Wh/kg-;significantly higher than currently lithium ion batteries. The research team then confirmed that this battery can be charged and discharged at room temperature.
It's no secret that we need more sustainable materials if we hope to help the planet. Bio-derived materials are one potential option, but they must be economical if anyone is going to use them.
The design of new materials allows for either improved efficiency of known applications or totally new applications that were out of reach with the previously existing materials. Indeed, tens of thousands of conventional materials such as metals and their alloys have been identified over the last hundred years.
Scientists from the RESOLV Cluster of Excellence at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have used current and voltage measurements on separate nanoparticles to prove that the capacitively stored charge at platinum interfaces can be considerably higher than formerly believed. They credit this to a unique arrangement and bonding of water molecules.
While ‘Strange Metal’ may sound like the name of an experimental avant-garde subgenre of heavy metal music, it in fact refers to a class of materials that shares fundamental quantum attributes with black holes.
By David J. Cross
20 Jan 2022
An article was published in the journal ACS energy letters in which the researchers proposed a simple yet effective electrochemical test that is useful for determining properties and interfacial contact characteristics.
By Ibtisam Abbasi
20 Jan 2022
In a recent study published in the journal Energies, researchers from Poland analyzed conceptual assumptions required for the research to design a theoretical multi-criteria system architecture model for stabilizing the operation of a hydrogen energy buffer-based electric power distribution networks that took into account the utility applications of green hydrogen.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
20 Jan 2022
Researchers from Greece and France, in their latest article published in the journal Energies, have studied the influence of rotor bar shapes to increase the efficiency of a single-phase induction motor.
By Ibtisam Abbasi
20 Jan 2022
In a recent study published in the journal Applied Materials Today, researchers from China developed a facile method to fabricate smart multi-responsive shape and color memory materials using poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL)-based dynamic polymer network, which was programmed in specific shapes at the macroscale and microscale level.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
20 Jan 2022
In 1998 when IONICON was founded as a company with 0.5 employees and no real facilities, at most it was an indistinct dream of the inventors of PTR-MS that this technological breakthrough could spread within the scientif...
A team of researchers recently published a paper in the journal Materials that demonstrated the suitability of using air and premixed hydrogen for microcombustion in an undulate channel to achieve flame stability.
By Susha Cheriyedath
20 Jan 2022
Globally, there is a shortage of donor kidneys, which has led to proposals to significantly expand the pool of deceased donors to include expanded criteria donors.
By Reginald Davey
20 Jan 2022
Extreme heat is a pressing problem in many urban areas, especially during the summer months. Climate change has mitigated this issue, leading to negative effects on the health of urban populations.
By Reginald Davey
20 Jan 2022
Climate change has led to severe disruptions in worldwide crop growing. Saffron, one of the most expensive global crops, is integral to the economy of India and likewise has been affected by a warming global climate.
By Reginald Davey
20 Jan 2022
Francis Crick, who famously co-discovered the shape of DNA, once said: "If you want to understand function, study structure." Many decades later, this remains a tenet of biology, chemistry, and materials science.