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New Fast-Degrading Plastics Could be Revolutionary

Plastics are being used in almost all aspects of our lives. Such materials are affordable to make and extremely stable.

11 Jul 2023

Damper Maintenance Made Easy: ABB’s Actuators Minimize Customer Plant Shutdowns

Eneva, the privately owned energy-producing company in Brazil, reported problems in one of their power plants related to the old pneumatic actuators installed in combustion air dampers. Actuators are responsible for movi...

From ABB Measurement & Analytics 11 Jul 2023

Argonne Scientist Wins ECS' 2023 Battery Division Research Award

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has selected scientist Shirley Meng of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory as the recipient of the 2023 Battery Division Research Award for innovative research on interfacial science, which has led to improved battery technologies.

11 Jul 2023

Researchers Unravel the Process of Growing Three-Dimensional Manganese Dendrites

An international research team involving scientists from the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and Univeristy of Edinburgh has described the process of growing three-dimensional manganese dendrites.

11 Jul 2023

New Phase Change Material Could Revolutionize Data Storage

Phase change memory is a type of nonvolatile memory that harnesses a phase change material's (PCM) ability to shift from an amorphous state, i.e., where atoms are disorganized, to a crystalline state, i.e., where atoms are tightly packed close together.

11 Jul 2023

New Compound Could Safely and Easily Store Ammonia

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have discovered a compound that uses a chemical reaction to store ammonia, potentially offering a safer and easier way to store this important chemical.

11 Jul 2023

PEAK Scientific launches new dedicated nitrogen solution

(Inchinnan, Renfrewshire July 11, 2023) PEAK Scientific have introduced the latest addition to their range of nitrogen gas generation solutions with the release of the Corona 1010A. Designed by PEAK to meet the requireme...

From Peak Scientific 11 Jul 2023

New Design Rule Enables the Synthesis of High-Entropy Active Materials

Solid electrolytes with high lithium-ion conductivity can be designed for millimeter-thick battery electrodes by increasing the complexity of their composite superionic crystals, report researchers from Tokyo Tech.

10 Jul 2023

New Technique Reveals Intricate Nanotextures in Thin-Film Materials

Using a combination of high-powered X-rays, phase-retrieval algorithms and machine learning, Cornell researchers revealed the intricate nanotextures in thin-film materials, offering scientists a new, streamlined approach to analyzing potential candidates for quantum computing and microelectronics, among other applications.

10 Jul 2023

Deep Learning Revolutionizes Electronic Structure Calculations

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simulation technique that offers both high fidelity and scalability across different time and length scales has long been a roadblock for the progress of these technologies.

10 Jul 2023

CWRU Electrochemical Engineer Wins International Award From The Electrochemical Society

Case Western Reserve University electrochemical engineer Rohan Akolkar-whose pioneering research has applications in nano-material fabrication, energy storage, electrometallurgy and sensors-has been selected as the 2023 winner of an international award from The Electrochemical Society (ECS).

10 Jul 2023

Eco-Friendly Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Using Dendrimers

In a study that could result in a new era in illumination, scientists from Japan and Germany have built eco-friendly light-emitting electrochemical cells with the use of new molecules known as dendrimers integrated with biomass-derived electrolytes and graphene-based electrodes.

10 Jul 2023

New Design Rule for High-Entropy Superionic Solid-State Conductors

10 Jul 2023

Fermion Pairing Captured in Real Time

When your laptop or smartphone heats up, it's due to energy that's lost in translation. The same goes for power lines that transmit electricity between cities. In fact, around 10 percent of the generated energy is lost in the transmission of electricity. That's because the electrons that carry electric charge do so as free agents, bumping and grazing against other electrons as they move collectively through power cords and transmission lines. All this jostling generates friction, and, ultimately, heat.

7 Jul 2023

Electrostatic Catalysis: A New Frontier in Chemical Processing

This perspective is led by Prof. Weidong Shi and Prof. Long Zhang. Developing new and more-efficient catalytic ways to control chemical reactivity and selectivity has been a constant quest for chemists in the fields of chemical manufacturing and fundamental research.

7 Jul 2023