Lithium ion battery waste used in biodiesel production from discarded vegetable oil
Using mixtures of metal hydroxides as a catalyst provides way to make cleaner fuel in minutes at room temperatureCredit: Gilberto ...
Month: July 2020
Li-ions transport across electrolytes and SEI like beads passing through a Galton Board
Credit: ©Science China Press The kinetics of Li-ions transport across the electrolyte and the SEI is usually the rate-determining step ...
Aerosols have an impact on the solar power yield in Europe
A joint research project of KIT, the German Weather Service, and meteocontrol investigates how tiny suspended particles in the air ...
The Venus ‘ring of fire’
Credit: Picture: NASA/JPL/USGS Years ago, planetary researchers discovered unusual circular structures on the surface of Venus when observing high-?resolution images ...
Study reveals composition of ‘gel-like’ substance discovered by Chang’e-4 rover on moon’s far side
Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side ...
New EU project to boost battery development
A novel battery development strategy has been launched in the European BATTERY 2030+ initiative - the CELEST research platform with ...
Thermal manipulation of plasmons in atomically thin films
Credit: by Eduardo J. C. Dias, Renwen Yu, F. Javier García de Abajo Surface plasmons in graphene have been widely ...
UC3M coordinates a project to develop new connectors for the high frequency industry
Credit: UC3M Designing and demonstrating a new generation of high frequency interconnections, this is the main objective of a European ...
A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies
Credit: by Alexoudi, T., Kanellos, G.T. & Pleros, N. Over the past decades, "storing light" has appeared as a rather ...
Application-driven quantum and statistical physics volume 3, published
A short course for future scientists and engineersCredit: World Scientific As part of our Essential Textbooks in Physics series, the ...
Topological photonics in fractal lattices
Credit: by Zhaoju Yang, Eran Lustig, Yaakov Lumer and Mordechai Segev Topological insulators are a new phase of matter featured ...
High school athletes require longer recovery following concussions
Epidemiologic findings from a high school populationCredit: Getty Images DETROIT - Young athletes are sidelined for at least one month ...
Valley-Hall nanoscale lasers
Credit: by Daria Smirnova, Aditya Tripathi, Sergey Kruk, Min-Soo Hwang, Ha-Reem Kim, Hong-Gyu Park, and Yuri Kivshar Topological photonics underpins ...
Living with a problem gambler?
Partner and family can help flag early signsCredit: Flinders University With the lure of online gambling high during COVID-19 lockdowns ...
Through the nanoscale looking glass — determining boson peak frequency in ultra-thin alumina
Boson peak in ultra-thin alumina glass: Neutron spectroscopy confirms molecular dynamics simulationCredit: RMIT/UOW There's more to glass than meets the ...
New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors
Credit: by David Knez, Adam Hanninen, Richard Prince, Eric Potma and Dmitry Fishman The MIR range of the electromagnetic spectrum, ...
Virginia Tech, partners pioneer nation’s first pediatric rehabilitation resource center
Virginia Tech, Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital joined together to create the $5 million, NIH-funded centerCredit: Clayton Metz/Virginia ...
Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators
Credit: by Avik Dutt, Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, and Shanhui Fan Topological insulators have been an exciting field ...
Eating habits of baby predator starfish revealed
Juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish will eat almost anything to survive, complicating plans for their managementCredit: University of Sydney Adult crown-of-thorns starfish ...
Temporal aiming with temporal metamaterials
Credit: by Victor Pacheco-Peña and Nader Engheta Tailoring and manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation has been of great interest within the ...
