Australian researchers have discovered that negative capacitance could lower the energy used in electronics and computing, which represents 8% of global electricity demand.
The rising urgency to make industry and commerce more sustainable and efficient has also spread to the construction sector.
By Adrian Thompson
17 Dec 2021
Noise pollution is an ever-present environmental problem in urban areas. To reduce the negative health effects it induces, sound absorbing materials are commonly employed, but their performance at low frequencies needs to be improved.
By Reginald Davey
17 Dec 2021
A new study in the journal Energy aims to consolidate critical data on the CO2 capture capacity of adsorbents generated from waste plastic. As an adsorbent, activated carbon plastic-waste might be a potential way to concurrently address two environmental challenges: CO2 emissions and solid waste disposal.
By Akhlaqul Karomah
17 Dec 2021
BioChromato Inc. has published a new application report that details how their ionRocket sample preparation device, used in combination with Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry enables routine analysis of low solubility, high molecular weight compounds.
A new research in ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering shows a way of constructing a carbon recycling plant (CRP) to create methanol using the developing electrochemical reduction (ER) of carbon dioxide.
By Akhlaqul Karomah
16 Dec 2021
The SCARA Cable Solution reinforces corrugated pipes and makes the supply of energy more durable in fast dynamic applications
A group of researchers from Italy recently studied the unconventional effect of cryogenic temperatures on the electric transport properties by analyzing the effects of drag transverse voltage in a tri-layered system comprising of superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet (S-I-F) in a cross configuration and the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field at a subzero 4.2 Kelvin temperature.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
16 Dec 2021
In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from Japan studied the thermodynamic properties of graphene stacked on LiNbO3 crystal by the application of surface acoustic waves (SAW).
By Chinmay Saraf
16 Dec 2021
Scientists from the Queen Mary University of London have formulated a new process for creating stable perovskite materials that can be used to build more efficient solar cells.
Electricity is unavailable to millions of people across the globe. A key to overcoming this issue is to set up decentralized solar-battery systems that avoid carbon emissions and air pollution.
In a recent study published in the journal Nano-Micro Letters, researchers from China developed a polymer-based hierarchically multifunctional polyimide composite film comprising of layers of 61.0 weight% graphene oxide/expanded graphite, 23.8 weight% ferric oxide/polyimide, and polyimide fibers to be used as a flexible, heat-dissipating, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding film for electronic devices.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
16 Dec 2021
The Center for Advanced Materials Research at The University of Texas at El Paso has received a $917,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to continue developing and improving advanced materials for national defense, power electronics and security interests.
Flaws in diamonds -; atomic defects where carbon is replaced by nitrogen or another element -; may offer a close-to-perfect interface for quantum computing, a proposed communications exchange that promises to be faster and more secure than current methods.
To meet the demands of modern society and reduce the environmental damage human activity causes, carbon-free hydrogen has received significant attention as an attractive, clean alternative energy and fuel source.
By Reginald Davey
16 Dec 2021