Thermoelectric materials will be a vital resource for the future as they are capable of producing electricity from sources of heat that would otherwise go to waste, from vehicle tailpipes, power plants and elsewhere, without producing additional greenhouse gases.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials known as molecular aggregates are extremely effective light emitters that function on a different principle than usual organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) or quantum dots.
Individuals increasingly depend on rechargeable batteries for a range of essential uses; from electric cars and mobile phones to electrical grid storage. This demand is presently taken up by lithium-ion batteries. New battery technologies will be needed for more efficient energy storage and new applications as individuals continue to transition from fossil fuels to low emission energy.
A KAUST team has discovered that thin films used in solar cells are more effective when simple chemicals called glycol ethers are incorporated to the film-forming mix.
Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics (ITAE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have worked in cooperation with a collaborator from RIKEN (Institute for Physical and Chemical Research in Japan) to provide theoretical proof of the presence of an innovative class of materials.
Self-healing materials are capable of repairing autonomous defects, such as dents, cracks or scratches, and then resume their original shape. To accomplish this, these materials must comprise of several components whose collective properties deliver the desired characteristics.
A new study suggests that the need for applying chemical treatments to fabrics in order to achieve properties such as magnetism or fluorescence could one day be eliminated by cotton that is grown with molecules endowing these appealing properties.
GreenMantra Technologies, a swiftly growing clean technology company that manufactures high-value polymer products from waste plastics, and Sun Chemical, the largest producer of printing inks in the world, have struck a deal to jointly create polymers from recycled polystyrene waste for use in ink formulations.
Physicists from UCLA have invented a new technique for synthesizing a distinctive new molecule that can, in due course, be used in fields such as food science, medicine, and others. The study also demonstrates the technique for analyzing chemical reactions on a microscopic-scale by applying tools of physics, and has been published in the Science journal.
It is a known fact that glass is omnipresent; while anyone is viewing outside through a window or scrolling down a smartphone, chances are that a glass layer exists between the person and the item being viewed.
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