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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

Surface Metrology 3D Optical Profilers Launched

From Polytec 15 Jan 2021

ALLVAR Alloys Announces ALLVAR University Series

College Station, TX – ALLVAR, a manufacturer of revolutionary alloys that exhibit negative thermal expansion (NTE), has announced a series of educational videos, called ALLVAR University, that showcase a particular application, calculation or considerations when designing assemblies with a component manufactured from an ALLVAR alloy.

14 Jan 2021

Hitachi High-Tech launches NEXTA® DSC range of thermal analyzers for advanced material development and quality control

From Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science 14 Jan 2021

Perovskite Nanocrystals Possess Extraordinary Properties of Energy Transport

Producing clean energy and reducing the power consumption of illumination and personal devices are key challenges to reduce the impact of modern civilization on the environment. As a result, the surging demand for solar cells and light-emitting devices is driving scientists to explore new semiconductor materials and improve their performances, while lowering the production costs.

13 Jan 2021

New 'Antiperovskite' Could Help Replace Flammable Organic Electrolytes in Lithium Ion Batteries

A new structural arrangement of atoms shows promise for developing safer batteries made with solid materials. Scientists at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) designed a new type of 'antiperovskite' that could help efforts to replace the flammable organic electrolytes currently used in lithium ion batteries. Their findings were described in the journal Nature Communications.

13 Jan 2021

Researchers Propose a Way to Efficiently Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Nickel

To resolve the energy crisis and environmental issues, research to move away from fossil fuels and convert to eco-friendly and sustainable hydrogen energy is well underway around the world. Recently, a team of researchers at POSTECH has proposed a way to efficiently produce hydrogen fuel via water-electrolysis using inexpensive and readily available nickel as an electrocatalyst, greenlighting the era of hydrogen economy.

13 Jan 2021

Simple One-Drop Method is Cheaper and Faster for Tiling Functional Nanosheets

Scientists at Japan's Nagoya University and the National Institute for Materials Science have found that a simple one-drop approach is cheaper and faster for tiling functional nanosheets together in a single layer. If the process, described in the journal ACS Nano, can be scaled up, it could advance development of next-generation oxide electronics.

13 Jan 2021