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New Ternary Nanocomposites Developed for Supercapacitors by Electrostatic Spinning

In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed novel Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which improved the performance of supercapacitors electrode materials.

20 Jul 2020

New Electrocatalytic Materials Could Improve Zinc-Air Battery Performance

In a report published in NANO, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions and oxygen evolution reactions to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries.

20 Jul 2020

New Study Could Help Understand Mechanism for Breaking Down Nitrogen Gas

A key mystery about the gas comprising most of our atmosphere is closer to being solved following a discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists.

20 Jul 2020

Carrier Trapping Suppression in 2D Perovskite Significantly Enhances Emission

Two-dimensional organic-inorganic halide perovskites are emerging materials for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications due to their unique physical properties and a high degree of tunability.

20 Jul 2020

New, Robust Electrometric Method Based on Continuous Dynamic Decoupling

A team led by Prof. DU Jiangfeng, Prof. SHI Fazhan and Prof. WANG Ya from University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a robust electrometric method utilizing continuous dynamic decoupling technique, where the continuous driving fields provide a magnetic-field-resistant dressed frame.

20 Jul 2020

Copper Bound to Oxygen is Better at Converting CO2 into Renewable Fuels

They say it's better to have had something special and lost it than to have never had it at all. Who would have thought that sentiment holds true for metal oxide catalysts.

20 Jul 2020

$New Efficient Full-Path Method to Calculate Optical Diffraction$

New Efficient Full-Path Method to Calculate Optical Diffraction

Diffraction is a classic optical phenomenon accounting for the light propagation. The efficient calculation of diffraction is of significant value towards the real-time prediction of light fields.

20 Jul 2020

New Study Helps Explain Previous Experimental Observations in Graphene Chemistry

Project lead Ayrat Dimiev has been working on this topic since 2012, when he was a part of Professor James Tour's group at Rice University.

20 Jul 2020

New Research Helps Enhances Therapeutic Efficiency of Diverse Nanoagents

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a breakthrough technology to resolve a key problem that has prevented the introduction of novel drugs into clinical practice for decades.

20 Jul 2020

Novel Organic LEDs Help Achieve Record Data Rate

Researches are pushing the boundaries of data speed with a brand new type of organic LEDs.

20 Jul 2020

Study Clarifies Key Strengths, Misconceptions of Multivalent Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries are recognized for their high energy density in everything from mobile phones to laptop computers and electric vehicles, but as the need for grid-scale energy storage and other applications becomes more pressing, researchers have sought less expensive and more readily available alternatives to lithium.

20 Jul 2020

New Method to Classify Gamma-Ray Bursts, Explosions in Distant Galaxies

By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), rapid highly energetic explosions in distant galaxies, without needing to find an afterglow - by which GRBs are presently categorized.

20 Jul 2020