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JGU Professor Receives ERC Consolidator Grant for Developing Smart Polymer Materials

Artificially created smart, intelligent materials with properties characteristic of life - this is the aim of Professor Andreas Walther's research at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU), for which the chemist is now receiving EUR 2 million in EU funding.

24 Dec 2020

New Way to Create Self-Assembled, Atomic-Scale Nanowires

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition metal chalcogenides at scale using chemical vapor deposition.

24 Dec 2020

New Polymer Captures Ammonia Preventing Air Pollution

A newly developed polymer could trap ammonia, preventing it from polluting the atmosphere, thus improving human health considerably.

By Robert Lea 23 Dec 2020

New Hybrids Made by Coupling Gold Nanoparticles with Soft Polymers

Bigger is not always better, but here's something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger.

23 Dec 2020

Using Ideas from 'Kirigami' to Create a Sophisticated Alternative to 3D Printing

Paper snowflakes, pop-up children's books and elaborate paper cards are of interest to more than just crafters. A team of Northwestern University engineers is using ideas taken from paper-folding practices to create a sophisticated alternative to 3D printing.

23 Dec 2020

Nanoparticles Could Increase Oil Production Efficiency

A team of scientists from Siberian Federal University together with their colleagues from Novosibirsk studied the effect of nanoparticles on oil production efficiency.

23 Dec 2020

Functional Hydrogel Coatings: Functions, Applications, Coating Methods and Tests

Life originates from water. Hydrogels--hydrophilic polymer network swelling in water--resembles the original form of life, the algae and bacterium. In the modern life, hydrogels are ubiquitous in nature, from muscle and cartilage in animal tissues to xylems and phloems in plants.

23 Dec 2020

Scientists Describe Structure and Properties of Novel Hydrogen Clathrate Hydrate

Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature and relatively low pressure.

23 Dec 2020

Chemists Synthesize Extremely Unusual Silicon Compounds

Chemists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have synthesized extremely unusual compounds. Their central building block is a silicon atom. Different from usual, however, is the arrangement of the four bonding partners of the atom, which are not in the form of a tetrahedron around it, but flat like a trapezoid.

23 Dec 2020

High Pressure Improves Silica Glass Used for Fiber Optic Cables

Rapid, accurate communication worldwide is possible via fiber optic cables, but as good as they are, they are not perfect. Now, researchers from Penn State and AGC Inc. in Japan suggest that the silica glass used for these cables would have less signal loss if it were manufactured under high pressure.

23 Dec 2020

A New Way to Improve Performance of Methanol Fuel Cells

Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have a huge potential in the motor and technical industries. To increase their energy performance, scientists suggest using electrodes made of thin palladium-based metallic glass films.

23 Dec 2020

Researchers Describe Structure and Properties of Novel Hydrogen Clathrate Hydrate

The structure and properties of a new hydrogen clathrate hydrate, which develops at room temperatures and comparatively low pressures, have been described by researchers from the United States, China, and Russia.

23 Dec 2020

Researchers Create an Advanced Alternative to 3D Printing

Elaborate paper cards, pop-up children’s books, and paper snowflakes are interesting not only to crafters but also to other individuals.

23 Dec 2020

New Layered Cobalt Oxide Exhibits Highest-Ever Thermoelectric Figure of Merit

At Hokkaido University, researchers have created a layered cobalt oxide that features a record-setting thermoelectric figure of merit, which can be useful to improve the thermoelectric power generation.

23 Dec 2020

Graphene-enhanced Window Films for the Automotive Industry

The complementary properties of graphene and glass mean that they go together hand in hand excellently. The development of such fusions continues to be especially beneficial to the automotive industry.

From STEK Automotive 22 Dec 2020