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Low-Temperature Method to Create Better Perovskite Crystals for Solar Cells

Although chemists often make use of high temperatures to achieve things, at times, keeping cool can work wonders. KAUST scientists have found that a low-temperature method can be useful to make improved single crystals for solar cells.

1 Jun 2020

Self-Healing Material for Next-Gen Soft Robots and Wearables

Envisage a stretchable digital screen that heals on its own when a crack develops, or a light-emitting robot that performs farming and space exploration work, or finds survivors in dark and hazardous locations.

1 Jun 2020

Nanoparticle-Dosed Refrigerants Enhance Power Reduction

Power consumption of a home refrigerator can be cut by 29% while improving cooling capacity. Researchers replaced widely-used, but environmentally unfriendly, R134a refrigerant with the more energy-efficient R600a.

1 Jun 2020

New Active Materials Could have Implications for Pharmaceutical Mixing and Delivery

At the atomic level, a glass of water and a spoonful of crystalline salt couldn't look more different. Water atoms move around freely and randomly, while salt crystals are locked in place in a lattice.

1 Jun 2020

A New Sorbent Developed to Purify Water from Hazardous Radioactive Elements

Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute of Chemistry FEB RAS come up with a smart technology for the synthesis of sorbent based on a "tungsten bronze" compound powder (Na2WO4) aimed to purify industrial and drinking water from hazardous radionuclides cesium (137Cs), and strontium (90Sr), as well as for effective processing of liquid radioactive waste.

1 Jun 2020

Statistical Physics Models Help Explain Limits on Natural Evolution

What is and is not possible for natural evolution may be explained using models and calculations from theoretical physics, say researchers in Japan.

1 Jun 2020

Tiny Gallium Oxide-Based Transistor can Handle More than 8,000 Volts

People love their electric cars. But not so much the bulky batteries and related power systems that take up precious cargo space.

1 Jun 2020

Researchers Discover High-Pressure Material with Attractive Properties

In the periodic table of elements there is one golden rule for carbon, oxygen, and other light elements.

1 Jun 2020

MSR-Electronic Assures Methane Gas Monitoring in an Energy Company in Croatia

HEP Group once again relies on cooperation with MSR-Electronic from Lower Bavaria.

From MSR-Electronic GmbH 1 Jun 2020

A Simple Method to Fabricate Reproducible Planar Microstructures of Polysiloxane

Polysiloxane is an elastic polymer which is widely used in fluidics, optics, and biomedical engineering. It offers desirable properties for microfabrication due to its castable and curable properties.

29 May 2020

New Smart Window Technology can Control Visible Light Transmittance

The original technology of smart window that can automatically adjust the amount of sunlight entering the room by changing the color of window depends on the intensity of sunlight has been developed by a domestic research team.

29 May 2020

Study Validates the Effectiveness of a Heating System for Building Refurbishment

Heating and air conditioning in buildings make up almost half of the total energy consumption in the European Union.

29 May 2020

A Non-Contact Method to Precisely Shape 3D-Printed Metal Parts

Professor Dirk Bähre and his research team at Saarland University have developed a non-contact method of transforming metal parts fabricated by a 3D printer into high-precision technical components for specialist applications.

29 May 2020