10+ hour, 49+ min ago   (98+ words) Schematic illustration of SOEC-driven electrochemical upgrading of alkanes to olefins, highlighting O-SOEC and H-SOEC reaction routes and corresponding product pathways EurekAlert! Schematic illustration of SOEC-driven electrochemical upgrading of alkanes to olefins, highlighting O-SOEC and H-SOEC reaction routes and corresponding product…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (102+ words) image: Electron transfer kinetics and molecular structural basis of dissolved black carbon as an electron shuttle view more Credit: Image Credit: Yufei Wu, Peng Zhang, Hanxue Li, Ting He, Wenmei Tao, Zhaofeng Chang & Bo Pan Tracking a Missing Kinetic Dimension…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (627+ words) Why This Electrolyte Matters KCl is introduced into a 2 M ZnCl2 aqueous electrolyte. The high concentration of KCl not only provides additional Cl⁻ ions but also fundamentally reorganizes the Zn2+ solvation environment and the hydrogen-bonding network of water. In the conventional ZnCl2 electrolyte,…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (184+ words) Researchers at Wuhan University developed a molecular-sieve-assisted confined molten-salt route to grow 2.66 nm Na2Nb4O11 single-crystal sheets. Devices made from the material combined sensitive ultraviolet detection with millisecond response and stable cycling, and enabled UV imaging and proof-of-concept two-wavelength physical-layer information encoding....

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (71+ words) Physics and chemistry unlock a wide range of applications through nanopore engineering image: A simulated microscopy image of hexagonal boron nitride with a circular pore surrounded by triangular ones. Darker circles correspond to individual boron and brighter circles to nitrogen…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (613+ words) Engineering Hard Carbon at the Molecular Level Starch is an attractive precursor for hard carbon because of its low cost, natural abundance, high carbon content, and intrinsic spherical morphology. However, direct pyrolysis of starch can cause extensive glycosidic-bond cleavage, generating…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (590+ words) Breaking the selectivity-permeability trade-off: Potassium channel-inspired composite membrane enables efficient Mg²⁺/Li⁺ separation EurekAlert! Credit: Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press With the in-depth advancement of the new energy industry, Li has become a core raw material for new energy vehicles and…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (420+ words) image: The model and image of the in situ formed [Ni1O4Ni4] active structure. view more Partial oxidation of methane (POM) offers a promising industrial route for syngas production. Metallic nickel (Ni) nanoparticles have long been considered the catalytic active centers for…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (169+ words) Researchers demonstrate a new method enables the quick synthesis of both planar and non-planar nanographenes image: Nanographenes with diverse structures can be synthesized in two-steps using a new method. view more The two-step APEX method proceeds in a straightforward manner....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (102+ words) FPTI promotes a stable LiF-rich passivation layer on graphite, improving interfacial stability and cycling performance. Further work will be needed to validate the approach in larger-format commercial cells and under a wider range of operating conditions. Even so, the study…...