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Scientists Design an Advanced Textile with Nano-Scale Threads for Personal Thermal Management

Textile engineers have developed a fabric woven out of ultra-fine nano-threads made in part of phase-change materials and other advanced substances that combine to produce a fabric that can respond to changing temperatures to heat up and cool down its wearer depending on need.

12 Oct 2022

Novel Electrolyte Suppresses the Formation of Dendrites in Batteries

As the demand for electric vehicles increases, so does the need for high-safety, long-life batteries. However, the requirement for high energy density batteries in electric vehicles exceeds the capability of conventional lithium-ion batteries.

10 Oct 2022

Seaweed-Based Battery Paves the Way for Greener and More Efficient Energy Storage

Bristol-led team uses nanomaterials made from seaweed to create a strong battery separator, paving the way for greener and more efficient energy storage.

6 Oct 2022

New Formula Makes World's Whitest Paint Thinner and Lighter

The world's whitest paint – seen in this year's edition of Guinness World Records and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" – keeps surfaces so cool that it could reduce the need for air conditioning.

5 Oct 2022

New Nanomembrane Offers a Less Energy Intensive Way to Fractionate Hydrocarbons from Crude Oil

Queen Mary scientists have created a new type of nanomembrane that presents a less energy intensive way to fractionate hydrocarbons from crude oil.

30 Sep 2022

Comprehensive Review on Memristive Quantum Devices

The laws of classical physics are inadequate to comprehend the behavior of matter at the nanoscale.

28 Sep 2022

Streamlining Reporting and Benchmarking of Forthcoming Field-Effect Transistors

One of the difficulties faced by researchers involved in innovative electronic devices is to compare devices according to various materials in a reliable manner.

26 Sep 2022

Using a New Technique to Better Understand Two-Dimensional Materials

Since the initial discovery of what has become a rapidly growing family of two-dimensional layered materials -; called MXenes -; in 2011, Drexel University researchers have made steady progress in understanding the complex chemical composition and structure, as well as the physical and electrochemical properties, of these exceptionally versatile materials.

26 Sep 2022

Facile Means to Investigate Properties of Single-Molecules

Recent research has finally made chemists’ long-held desire to watch a single molecule’s structural dynamics a reality.

16 Sep 2022

Unique Material Property Discovered in Complex Nanostructures

Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and North Carolina State University (NC State) have discovered a distinctive property in multifaceted nanostructures for the first time, which has so far only been observed in basic nanostructures.

14 Sep 2022

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