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Designing New Catalytic Materials that Reduce Need to Use Precious Metals

Phillip Christopher, an associate professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has received the 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

4 Jun 2020

Platelet Ordered Mesoporous Silica Improves Capacity, Stability of Batteries

The tremendous increase in the use of mobile technology, wearable electronics, and a wide range of portable devices in general over the past few decades, has driven scientists worldwide to seek out the next breakthrough in rechargeable batteries.

4 Jun 2020

New Porous Ceramic Coatings Improves Gas Sensing Performance of Devices

Many common household items and devices have a coating that improves performance. For example, the thin Teflon coating on cookware helps prevent food from sticking to the surface.

4 Jun 2020

New Sustainable Method to Extract Flavoring Agent Vanillin from Lignin

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have developed a new sustainable method of extracting the flavoring agent vanillin from lignin, a component of wood.

4 Jun 2020

New Method Could Enable Scalable, Economically Viable Hydrogen Production

Pour yourself a glass of water and take a look at it. This water contains an abundant source of fuel, hydrogen. Hydrogen burns clean unlike petrol-based energy products.

4 Jun 2020

New Armor-Plated Superhydrophobic Surface Exhibits Superior Durability

Superhydrophobic surfaces repel water like nothing else. This makes them extremely useful for antimicrobial coatings - as bacteria, viruses and other pathogens cannot cling to their surfaces.

4 Jun 2020

New Approach to Demonstrate Symmetry of Parity Violation in Molecules

Scientists have long tried to experimentally demonstrate a certain symmetry property of the weak interaction - parity violation - in molecules.

4 Jun 2020

New Study Shows Magnetic Relaxation Depends on Orientation of Molecule

Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women's University (Japan) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) took another important step towards building a functional quantum computer.

4 Jun 2020

New Method to Improve Charge-Separation Properties of Bismuth Vanadate Catalysts

The ever-worsening global environmental crisis, coupled with the depletion of fossil fuels, has motivated scientists to look for clean energy sources.

4 Jun 2020

New Nanoparticle can Produce Green Coherent Light at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020

Study Could Help Apply Graphene as Building Block for Future Electronics

A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer device development known as spintronics, which could see graphene used as building block for next-generation electronics.

4 Jun 2020

New Oxidizing Agent Allows Reactive Species Synthesis in Laboratory Solvents

Chemical oxidation, the selective removal of electrons from a substrate, represents one of the most important transformations in chemistry.

4 Jun 2020

New Spray-Coating Method Enables More Complex Perovskite Solar Cells

Although perovskites are a promising alternative to the silicon used to make most of today's solar cells, new manufacturing processes are needed to make them practical for commercial production.

4 Jun 2020

New Method Could Lead to More Efficient, Versatile LED Display

UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting technology.

4 Jun 2020

New Metasurface can Operate as Many Birefringent Materials in Parallel

Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, is invisible to the human eye. Yet, so much of our optical world relies on the control and manipulation of this hidden quality of light.

4 Jun 2020