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Analytik Jena Science Award Honors Outstanding Scientific Articles

The first two Analytik Jena Science Awards are given to Dr. Carlos Abad of the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, and Natalie Rangno of the Institute of Wood Technology Dresden.

From Analytik Jena 29 Jun 2019

New Method to Enhance Water Stability of Metal Organic Frameworks

By incorporating hydroquinone, a skin-bleaching element, to a well-established ‘metal organic framework’, its copper ions are modified such that this porous material becomes extremely stable in water.

27 Jun 2019

Researchers Solve Mystery of Condensation and Highlight its Benefits

Condensation could fog up glasses or ruin a wood coffee table when it enters into a warm building on a winter day, but it is not completely a problem. The condensation and evaporation cycle has significant applications.

26 Jun 2019

Newly Developed Material Could Save Electronics from Heat Damage

One mode through which heat ruins electronic equipment is by making components to expand at different rates, leading to forces that cause distortion and micro-cracking.

26 Jun 2019

Study Reveals Reaction of Soft Materials to Deformation at Molecular Level

Scientists will have to first comprehend how soft materials behave during swiftly changing deformation before designing the next generation of soft materials.

25 Jun 2019

A New Approach to Study the Composition of Crude Oil

A research team, from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skoltech, and the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has proposed a new method for analyzing oil composition.

24 Jun 2019

Direct Method to Obtain Efficient, Practical Oxide Composite Materials

A research team from Nanchang University has tried to directly construct the surface structure of copper (Cu)-based substrate to obtain a sequence of Ce-O-Cu catalysts for NH3-SCR of NO. The study will soon be published in the upcoming issue in NANO.

20 Jun 2019

Strategy of In-Situ Catalytic Grafting at the Solid Electrolyte Interface

A team of researchers, headed by Professor LI Chilin from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has suggested a new method of in-situ catalytic grafting at the interface.

17 Jun 2019