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Researchers Discover One-Step Process for Creating Materials with Unique Properties

A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating materials with unique properties, called metamaterials.

12 Jan 2021

Researchers Develop Liquid Metal Ink to Accelerate Stretchable Electronic Devices

Today's electronic devices strive for new form factors - to make them foldable, stretchable, and deformable.

12 Jan 2021

New Dendrite-Free Aqueous Battery Works on Seawater as the Electrolyte

Lithium-ion batteries play a crucial role in modern life, right from powering cell phones and laptops to the new holiday toys. However, there is a safety threat—the batteries can catch fire.

12 Jan 2021

New Catalyst Could Reduce Greenhouse Gases from Burning Natural Gas

Natural gas produces comparatively lower amounts of pollutants such as carbon dioxide—a powerful greenhouse gas and the main contributor to climate change—and thus, it is the cleanest conventional fossil fuel source.

12 Jan 2021

New Strategy can Boost Performance of All-Solid-State Batteries

All-solid-state batteries—the next-generation batteries—can concurrently enhance the capacity and stability of present-day lithium batteries.

12 Jan 2021

Does Your Powder Cake or Crust? Freeman Technology Releases New Experimental Work Exploring the Mechanisms of Caking

A new peer-reviewed paper from Freeman Technology highlights the unique value of dynamic powder testing for the elucidation of caking mechanisms, focusing on non-homogeneous caking or crusting.

From Freeman Technology 12 Jan 2021

New Xylose-Based Sustainable Polymer Reduces Reliance on Crude Oil Products

At the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies of the University of Bath, researchers have developed a sustainable polymer using xylose—the second most abundant sugar found in nature.

12 Jan 2021

Researchers Design New, High Entropy Alloy Superconductor

At Tokyo Metropolitan University, a team of scientists has combined and developed a new, high entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor with the help of expansive data related to simple superconducting substances with a particular crystal structure.

11 Jan 2021

Researchers Develop New Metal Oxide Materials with Excellent Plasmonic Resonance Performance

In a study published in Advanced Materials, the researchers from Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, using an electron-proton co-doping strategy, invented a new metal-like semiconductor material with excellent plasmonic resonance performance.

11 Jan 2021

Newly Discovered ‘Liquid Glass’ Represents a New State of Matter

Researchers have discovered a new state of matter, a liquid glass that has remained hidden for two decades. The discovery could help scientists see through this ubiquitous material’s secrets.

7 Jan 2021

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