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A New Method to Visualize Polymer Crystallization in Real Time

In modern times, manufacturers produce highly specialized materials for a wide array of uses, called polymers. Polymers have a variety of purposes owing to their versatile properties, ranging from being used in construction due to their high tensile strength and resistance to manufacturing plastic bags that require more lightweight, flexible materials, such as nylon or polyethene.

6 Jan 2021

Regeneration of Deactivated Catalyst in Industrially Important Methanol-to-Olefins Process

MTO process, which was first commercialized in 2010, is a catalytic process converting methanol, which is typically made from coal, natural gas, biomass, and CO2, over SAPO-34 zeolite catalyst. It's becoming one of the main streams for producing light olefins, including ethylene and propylene, from non-oil resources.

6 Jan 2021

Researchers Use a Novel Catalyst Process to Recycle Plastic Waste

For the first time, researchers have used a novel catalyst process to recycle a type of plastic found in everything from grocery bags and food packaging to toys and electronics into liquid fuels and wax.

6 Jan 2021

Liquid Glass: A New State of Matter Uncovered

While glass is a truly ubiquitous material that we use on a daily basis, it also represents a major scientific conundrum. Contrary to what one might expect, the true nature of glass remains something of a mystery, with scientific inquiry into its chemical and physical properties still underway.

6 Jan 2021

Upgraded Instrumentation System Could Usher a New Era in Materials Characterization

Lehigh University researchers are transforming an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) into the equivalent of a synchrotron facility (a football-field-size particle accelerator), with greatly improved spatial resolution and versatility.

6 Jan 2021

Machine Learning Could Accelerate the Design of Advanced Materials

If everything moved 40,000 times faster, you could eat a fresh tomato three minutes after planting a seed. You could fly from New York to L.A. in half a second. And you'd have waited in line at airport security for that flight for 30 milliseconds.

6 Jan 2021

Q.E.D. Highlights Torpedo™ G1275 Pumps for Aggressive Pumping Applications

Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., announces its Torpedo™ G1275 pumps, a series of large-body pumps designed for aggressive pumping applications. These pumps work by means of a powerful stirring motion in the influent stream to allow slurries and solids to pass through. These pumps are designed for use in applications including landfill liquid management and remediation pumping applications.

From QED Environmental Systems, Inc. 6 Jan 2021

Innovative Zinc-Air Battery Could Revolutionize Energy Storage

This breakthrough zinc-air battery utilizes novel chemistry for improved stability and reversibility, positioning it as a competitive energy storage solution.

5 Jan 2021

Polaronic Distortions Could be Leveraged to Make Low-Cost Solar Cells

For the first time, investigators from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at the Department of Energy (DOE) and Stanford University have applied the laboratory’s X-ray laser to observe and directly quantify the development of polarons.

5 Jan 2021

New Battery Chemistry for Zinc-Air Battery Overcomes Previous Technical Obstacles

High-performance, eco-friendly, safe and at the same time cost-effective: the zinc-air battery is an attractive energy storage technology of the future. Until now, the conventional zinc-air battery has struggled with a high chemical instability, parasitic reactions which rooted in the usage of alkaline electrolytes lead to electrochemical irreversibility.

5 Jan 2021

Physicists Discover a Soft Form of Supersolid

Last year, more than fifty years after initial theoretical proposals, researchers in Pisa, Stuttgart and Innsbruck independently succeeded for the first time in creating so-called supersolids using ultracold quantum gases of highly magnetic lanthanide atoms.

5 Jan 2021