22+ hour, 28+ min ago   (670+ words) Dr. Christoph Wulf and Dr. Simon Haida (from left) present a portion of the synthesized material Crucial new technologies such as hydrogen production or carbon capture require new catalysts. Experiments show: It's not just the material that matters, but also…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (828+ words) A new type of plastic that turns into a gas when heated and reforms into a solid when cooled has been developed by scientists at the University of Surrey, opening up a new approach to processing and recycling polymers. In…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (670+ words) The molecular chain of the metastable material (left) is held together by a single lock (orange). As soon as the right chemical key opens this lock, the entire chain breaks down within seconds (images on the right). The research was…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1113+ words) proteins form complex three-dimensional shapes and can join together to create larger structures. Researchers want to utilize these properties to make artificial materials. However, arranging proteins and synthetic molecules together with a high level of structural precision is no easy…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (731+ words) Yunpei Zhu, Husam N. Alshareef; "NMR for liquid battery electrolytes: Structure, motion, and heterogeneity"; eScience Energy, Volume 2 Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is set to detect micro-short in future before they lead to battery fires A new study provides unexpected insights into how…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (822+ words) This glider’s propeller was powered by prototype supercapacitors on its wings that can be disassembled and recycled into new energy storage devices. €111 million investment for high-quality feedstock for the plastics and chemicals industry As proof of concept, the researchers integrated…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1298+ words) Rice University researchers have shown that tiny wrinkles in graphene can change the material’s electrical properties, providing evidence for flexoelectricity, a phenomenon in which a material generates an electric charge when it bends unevenly. The findings are published in Advanced…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (648+ words) The researchers used ball milling as a cost-effective way to engineer oxygen defects in electrolytic MnO₂ Heriot-Watt scientists and start-up Take Root Bio have found a new use for salty cheese whey Bayreuth chemists use a zinc-containing complex that reversibly aggregates…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (946+ words) One of the biggest challenges facing scientists and engineers in the clean energy era isn’t how to make energy using sun and wind, it’s how to store it. The team published their paper, “Unveiling the action mechanism of synergistic d…...

3+ week, 49+ min ago   (303+ words) “For this to work, the sputtering process must take place at high temperatures of 400 to 600 degrees Celsius; the rate of incoming atoms must be neither too high nor too low; and the correct buffer layer must be selected between the…...