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Study Discovers How Energy is Lost During Singlet Fission in Solar Cells

Solar energy is considered one of the most significant eco-friendly and fossil-free sustainable sources of electricity. The existing silicon-based solar cells use only around 33% of the energy in sunlight and transform it into electricity.

11 Mar 2021

Researchers Perform Experimental Study of New High Temperature Superconductor

An international team of researchers has carried out experimental and theoretical studies on a new high-temperature superconductor, yttrium hydride (YH6).

11 Mar 2021

Slimy, Tough Bacterial Biofilm Could Help Separate Water and Oil

Scientists have shown that a slimy, yet strong, biofilm made by some bacteria for safety and to enable them move about can help separate oil from water.

10 Mar 2021

Researchers Create Turing Structure on Inorganic Transition Metal Chalcogenides

Alan Turing, who is considered as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, hypothesized in 1952 that some repetitive natural patterns may be generated by the interaction of two particular substances via the “reaction-diffusion” process.

9 Mar 2021

Chemists Discover 224 Previously Unknown Allotropes of Carbon

Employees of the Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science (SCTMS) of Samara Polytech together with scientists of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU, China) generated low-energy carbon allotropes, i.e. substances of the same composition as the known allotropes, such as graphite or diamond, but different in structure and properties.

8 Mar 2021

New Material Always Expands Regardless of Compression or Strain

If you stretch an elastic band, it becomes thinner - a physical behavior that applies to most "common" materials. Since the 20th century, an opposite behavior has been known in materials research: The so-called auxetic (from ancient Greek auxetos, meaning 'stretchable') materials expand in the direction orthogonal to the strain.

8 Mar 2021

New Copolymer Binder may Lead to Durable Lithium-Ion Batteries

Individuals who have owned a smartphone for more than a year would probably know that the integrated lithium (Li)-ion battery does not retain as much charge as it did when the phone was new.

8 Mar 2021

New Technique to Coax Microscopic Droplets into Precise Patterns

In a new study, scientists have harnessed the power of sound in air to develop a technique to coax microscopic particles and droplets into accurate patterns.

8 Mar 2021