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New Method to Precisely Investigate Why Metal Oxide Surfaces Behave Differently

Metal surfaces play a role as catalysts for many important applications - from fuel cells to the purification of car exhaust gases. However, their behaviour is decisively affected by oxygen atoms incorporated into the surface.

15 Jan 2021

How Luxinar is Protecting its Employees During COVID-19

A recent COVID-19 workplace survey has revealed that a majority of employees do not feel safe at their work premises. Leading laser manufacturer Luxinar understands the importance of creating a safe environment for all of its employees and has implemented over 60 policy changes at its UK-based site, exceeding the recommendations of both this survey and the UK government.

From Luxinar Ltd 15 Jan 2021

Columbia Researchers Observe Photon Avalanching Behavior in Nanomaterials

Researchers at Columbia Engineering report today that they have developed the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching," a process that is unrivaled in its combination of extreme nonlinear optical behavior and efficiency.

15 Jan 2021

Capsaicin may be the Secret Ingredient for More Stable, Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Scientists in China and Sweden have determined that a pinch of capsaicin, the chemical compound that gives chili peppers their spicy sting, may be a secret ingredient for more stable and efficient perovskite solar cells.

15 Jan 2021

Rice Scientists Turn Pyrolyzed Ash into Graphene

Pyrolyzed plastic ash is worthless, but perhaps not for long.

15 Jan 2021

A Powerful Technique to Analyze the Chemical States of Lithium

Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely used for daily products in our life, such as hybrid cars, cell phone, etc. but their charge/discharge process is not fully understood yet. To understand the process, behaviors of lithium ion, distribution and chemical composition and state, should be revealed.

15 Jan 2021

Using Graphene Improves Catalytic Activity During Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

A team of researchers led by the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Tsukuba has demonstrated a method for producing acid-resistant catalysts by covering them with layers of graphene.

15 Jan 2021

Researchers Report Synthesis and Catalytic Reactivity of Molybdenum-Dinitrogen Complexes

Dinitrogen (N2) fixation is considered as one of the most essential tasks in basic science, providing straightforward methods to produce ammonia and nitrogen-containing molecules.

15 Jan 2021

New Multi-Fidelity Approach Predicts the Properties of Disordered Materials

Advancements in energy technologies, healthcare, semiconductors and food production all have one thing in common: they rely on developing new materials--new combinations of atoms--that have specific properties enabling them to perform a needed function. In the not-too-distant past, the only way to know what properties a material had was by performing experimental measurements or using very expensive computations.

15 Jan 2021

Novel Pillarene Hybrid Material Exhibits Enhanced Tunable Multicolor Luminescence, Sensing Ability

Organic luminescent materials have been highlighted as an exciting research topic owing to their prominent potentials in light-emitting diodes, fluorescent sensors, optoelectronic devices, in vivo imaging, anti-counterfeiting, data storage, and information encryption.

15 Jan 2021

Scientists Gain New Insights into the First Step of Aerosol Formation

Aerosols are suspensions of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in a gas. Clouds, for example, are aerosols because they consist of water droplets dispersed in the air. Such droplets are produced in a two-step process: first, a condensation nucleus forms, and then volatile molecules condense onto this nucleus, producing a droplet.

15 Jan 2021

Physicists Discover New Way to Control Electrical Charge in Atomically Thin Materials

Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered how to locally add electrical charge to an atomically thin graphene device by layering flakes of another thin material, alpha-RuCl3, on top of it.

15 Jan 2021

Scientists Develop Cost-Effective Technique to Boost the Properties of MgB2 Superconductors

Superconductivity already has a variety of practical applications, such as medical imaging and levitating transportation like the ever-popular maglev systems. However, to ensure that the benefits of applied superconductors keep spreading further into other technological fields, we need to find ways of not only improving their performance, but also making them more accessible and simpler to fabricate.

15 Jan 2021

Cuckoo Search Program Supports Quick Identification of High-Entropy Alloys

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, computational materials science experts optimize an algorithm that is based on the nesting habits of cuckoo birds, thereby decreasing the search time for new high-tech alloys from weeks to just seconds.

15 Jan 2021

Air Purification Devices Distributed by UK Company, KSG Health, are Proven to be 99.999% Effective Against COVID

KSG Health, a UK importer and distributor of Genano air purification units, are delighted to share the fact that the systems have been independently proven to be 99.999% effective against viruses, including Coronavirus.

15 Jan 2021