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Researchers Are a Step Closer to Achieving Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

A long-cherished dream of materials researchers is a solar cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy as efficiently as silicon, but that can be easily and inexpensively fabricated from abundant materials. Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have now come a step closer to achieving this.

23 Feb 2021

New Way to Use Lignin from Plants in Battery Electrolytes

A group of researchers from Florida State University (FSU) has devised a new method to make use of a material contained in plants to develop safer batteries.

23 Feb 2021

Tolland Business, Environics, Gets Major SBA Award

Tolland-based Environics has been named the 2020 recipient of the Small Business Adminstration's Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the Year. Image Credit: Chris Dehnel/Patch Tolland-based Environi...

From Environics, Inc. 23 Feb 2021

NanoAL Signs a Long-Term Commercial License Agreement for Advanced Aluminum Alloy Products with Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan

NanoAL, LLC announced today that it has signed a Commercial License Agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd. (RtMJ) to bring its award-winning Addalloy® family of advanced aluminum alloy powders to the rapidly growing Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) Market in Asia.

From NanoAl LLC 23 Feb 2021

Exotic Metal Found to Exhibit Giant Hall Effect Without any Magnetic Field

A magnetic field can deflect an electric current. In the case of conducting materials, this results in what is called the Hall effect, which is usually used to quantify magnetic fields.

23 Feb 2021

Rare Metal Complex of N2O Could Help Degrade Potent Greenhouse Gas

Nitrous oxide (N2O), similar to its chemical relative carbon dioxide (CO2), is a major greenhouse gas and is also the leading ozone-depleting substance produced in the 21st Century.

23 Feb 2021

JEOL Introduces New Configuration of Its Broad Ion Beam Milling Cross Section

JEOL USA introduces a new configuration of its bestselling broad ion beam milling instrument, the Cross-section Polisher (CP).

From JEOL USA, Inc. 23 Feb 2021

UCF Joins Project to Develop Composites for Spacecraft, NASA Missions

Sometimes big things come in small packages, and the new thin but strong materials the University of Central Florida is helping NASA develop are no exception.

From AnalySwift, LLC 23 Feb 2021

3D Printed Metal Ankle Bone is a Step Forward for Orthopedics

As well as offering relief and guaranteeing mobility and pain reduction for thousands, a new 3D-printed metal talus implant could change the field of orthopedics.

By Robert Lea 22 Feb 2021

New Methane-to-Methanol Conversion Method Could Offer Cleaner Energy Source

Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago have found a new method for conversion of methane in natural gas—the fuel used to cook food, heat homes, and produce electricity —into liquid methanol at room temperature.

22 Feb 2021

Scientists Use Iodine in the Synthesis of New Stable Crystalline Chalcogenides

A chemist from RUDN University, working with a group of colleagues, synthesized three new chalcogenides (compounds that contain metals and elements from group 16 of the periodic table). The team suggested an unusual approach to synthesis that was based on iodine. An article about the work was published in the Dalton Transactions journal.

22 Feb 2021

Two-Step Amination Strategy Enhances the Intrinsic Activity of CO2 Electrocatalytic Reduction

Carbon dioxide (CO2) electrocatalytic reduction driven by renewable electricity can solve the problem of excessive CO2 emissions. Since CO2 is thermodynamically stable, efficient catalysts are needed to reduce the energy consumption in the process.

22 Feb 2021

Instron® Launches Torsion Add-On 3.0 for Axial Test Systems

Instron, a leading manufacturer of materials testing equipment and software, is excited to announce the launch of the Torsion Add-On 3.0 for universal testing systems.

From Instron - USA 22 Feb 2021

Stromatolites - The Fossils of Earth's Earliest Lifeforms - May Owe Their Existence to Viruses

As the Mars Rover sets out to look for evidence of life on another planet, scientists back on Earth suggest viruses played a key role in creating stromatolites, our planet’s oldest lifeforms.

22 Feb 2021

COVID Breakthrough: 'Torpedo' Device Targets SARS-CoV-2 Hotspots in Wastewater

A simple, cost-effective and portable device, shaped like a torpedo, has been successful in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Victoria – opening avenues for a global rollout as the virus continues to ravage major cities.

22 Feb 2021