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Hierarchically Porous TiO2/rGO Hybrid Architecture for High Performance Li Ions Battery

The design of materials with high capacity, excellent rate capability and long cycle life is one of the major challenges for the rechargeable lithium ion batteries (LIBs).

29 Apr 2020

New Insights into How Fluids Heat or Cool Surfaces

Whether it's water flowing across a condenser plate in an industrial plant, or air whooshing through heating and cooling ducts, the flow of fluid across flat surfaces is a phenomenon at the heart of many of the processes of modern life.

29 Apr 2020

Complex Crystal Structure of Molybdenum Borides Revealed

In their search for new superhard compounds, researchers carried out a prediction of stable molybdenum borides and their crystal structures.

29 Apr 2020

Simple Pretreatment Step Enhances Performance of Polymer Membranes

A simple pretreatment step enables membranes to be enhanced using atomic layer deposition, a technique that can improve performance and introduce new surface properties.

29 Apr 2020

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Come Closer to Becoming Commercially Viable

Lithium-sulfur batteries have been hailed as the next big step in battery technology, promising significantly longer use for everything from cellphones to electric vehicles on a single charge, while being more environmentally sustainable to produce than current lithium-ion batteries.

29 Apr 2020

WITec Reveals New Generation alpha300 apyron

WITec GmbH, pioneer of Raman imaging and correlative microscopy, establishes the next level of automation and user-friendliness with the introduction of the new alpha300 apyron. Its AutoBeam technology unlocks the full potential of WITec’s industry-leading alpha300 series.

From WITec GmbH 29 Apr 2020

MRI can Support Design of Next Generation Batteries

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide an effective way of supporting the development of the next generation of high-performance rechargeable batteries, according to research led by the University of Birmingham.

29 Apr 2020

LabVantage Solutions Announces New Purpose-Built Biobanking LIMS Accelerator for Managing COVID-19 Testing

LabVantage Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services including purpose-built LIMS that allow labs to go live faster and at a lower total cost, today announced the availability of its new purpose-built COVID-19 LIMS solution.

From LabVantage Solutions, Inc. 29 Apr 2020

Picosun Provides ALD Technology for Several New Photonics Applications

Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, reports several significant new sales to photonics applications.

From Picosun Oy 29 Apr 2020

4th Generation Fluorolog Covers the Broadest Range of Luminescence Research

HORIBA Scientific, global leader in measurement and analysis solutions for research and industry, and world leader in Fluorescence solutions, is thrilled to announce the debut of the Fluorolog-QM, the 4th generation Fluorolog.

From HORIBA 29 Apr 2020

Researchers Develop Light-Emitting Composite Material Based on Perovskite Nanocrystals

An international team of scientists that includes researchers from ITMO University has developed a new composite material based on perovskite nanocrystals for the purpose of creating miniature light sources with improved output capacity.

28 Apr 2020

Scientists Explain Why Nickelate Superconductors are More Difficult than Expected

Last summer, a new age for high-temperature superconductivity was proclaimed - the nickel age. It was discovered that there are promising superconductors in a special class of materials, the so-called nickelates,

28 Apr 2020

New Metasurface Laser Produces High Purity Twisted Light

Researchers have demonstrated the world's first metasurface laser that produces "super-chiral light": light with ultra-high angular momentum. The light from this laser can be used as a type of "optical spanner" to or for encoding information in optical communications.

28 Apr 2020

Developing Power Converters Using Gallium Nitride Devices

Military installations, especially on ships and aircraft, require robust power electronics systems to operate radar and other equipment, but there is limited space onboard.

28 Apr 2020

Coupled Magnetic Materials Exhibit Energetic Properties for Quantum Applications

In order to find new ways to transmit and process information, scientists have begun to explore the behavior of electronic and magnetic spins, specifically their resonant excitations, as information carriers.

28 Apr 2020