Materials and Batteries

45+ min ago   (506+ words) A single-atom substitution could transform one of the most exciting families of two-dimensional materials from a laboratory curiosity into a working engine for solar fuels....

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in India have transformed the delicate purple-and-white flowers of Bauhinia variegata, the mountain ebony tree, into a high-performance carbon electrode material that works in two very different clean-energy devices at once. In a study published in the Springer journal…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (696+ words) Scientists at Pusan National University have published a comprehensive review showing that microorganisms wired directly to electrical circuits could become the backbone of a carbon-negative chemical industry. In a paper in the journal Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Chang…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (641+ words) Every electric vehicle that rolls off an assembly line today carries within it a promise of cleaner transportation and, eventually, a difficult waste problem. Lithium-ion batteries degrade with use, and when they can no longer hold enough charge to propel…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (94+ words) The blue dye that colors denim, candies, and medicines may soon face an unexpected adversary: the discarded remains of old cellphone batteries. In a study published in Discover Industrial Chemistry and Materials, a team of Brazilian researchers led by Eric…...

7+ hour, 32+ min ago   (583+ words) Solid-state batteries have been heralded as the next great leap in energy storage, promising higher energy densities, improved safety and longer lifetimes than the lithium-ion cells that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles....

9+ hour, 41+ min ago   (623+ words) Lithium-sulfur batteries have spent decades promising an energy-storage revolution that never quite arrived. On paper, the chemistry is extraordinary: sulfur is abundant, cheap, and capable in principle of storing several times more energy per kilogram than the intercalation cathodes used…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (441+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit A paper bag that carried someone’s lunch on Tuesday has a plausible future inside a phone. Researchers at NTU Singapore have worked out how to bake kraft paper, the brown…...

19+ hour, 53+ min ago   (378+ words) Lithium metal anodes offer a theoretical energy density nearly double that of conventional graphite anodes—454 Wh kg?¹ compared to 314 Wh kg?¹ at the cell level when paired with lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide cathode. Sep 12 2026 Lithium metal anodes offer a…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (826+ words) For decades, electrochemists studying water splitting have worked under a comfortable assumption: when a nickel hydroxide electrode is pushed to oxidize water in alkaline conditions, its surface transforms into nickel oxyhydroxide, the phase long celebrated as the active catalyst. That…...