New strategy to ‘buffer’ climate change: developing cheaper, eco-friendly solar cells
New study develops a novel eco-friendly buffer for solar panels, which could tip the scale in the renewable energy transitionCredit: Pixabay Solar power is an...
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Turning heat into power with efficient organic thermoelectric material
Credit: University of Groningen Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into electricity. Organic thermoelectric materials could be used to power wearable electronics or sensors;...
Cloth face masks that can be disinfected by the sun
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15540 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have become accustomed to wearing cotton face masks...
Connecting two classes of unconventional superconductors
Credit: © MPI CPfS The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics. Different classes of unconventional...
Pioneering new circular economy centre in technology metals announced
Credit: Sam Broom-Fendley The University of Exeter will lead a pioneering new research centre, designed to revolutionize how crucial metals are extracted, used and reused...
Optoelectronic detectors capable of perceiving light intensity and color
Credit: by Mei-Na Zhang, Xiaohan Wu, Antoine Riaud, Xiao-Lin Wang, Fengxian Xie, Wen-Jun Liu, Yongfeng Mei, David Wei Zhang and Shi-Jin Ding Human brain can...
Electrochemical oxygen evolution on Hf2B2Ir5 electrode material
Credit: © MPI CPfS The water electrolysis is an electrochemical way for production of hydrogen, which is considered as one of the future energy carrier...
Graphene controls laser frequency combs in fiber
Credit: by Chenye Qin, Kunpeng Jia, Qianyuan Li, Teng Tan, Xiaohan Wang, Yanhong Guo, Shu-Wei Huang, Yuan Liu, Shining Zhu, Zhenda Xie, Yunjiang Rao, &...
Cascade amplified upconversion luminescence facilitating narrow band NIR photodetection
Credit: by Yanan Ji, Wen Xu, Nan Ding, Haitao Yang, Hongwei Song, Qingyun Liu, Hans Ã…gren, Jerker Widengren, Haichun Liu Narrow-band near infrared (NIR) photodetectors...
Dissecting colloidal glasses using laser as a lancet
IBS researchers in South Korea probe the cage formation of the glass at surgical precision and elucidate the onset of glass transitionCredit: IBS Bo Li,...
Intelligent surfaces signal better coverage
Credit: © 2020 KAUST Mustafa Kishk & Maha M. Kamal Specialized reflective panels located on top of buildings and deployed widely across a city could...
Scientists can now scoop contents of individual cells from their local environment
New method bridges in situ microscopy with single cell omicsCredit: Wheeler lab Scientists can now select individual cells from a population that grows on the...
Identifying the microscopic mechanism of vibrational energy harvesters
Familiarity with self-power generation devicesCredit: Nagoya University The Japanese research team elucidated the microscopic mechanism in which amorphous silica(1) becomes negatively charged as a vibrational...
Observation of four-charm-quark structure
Credit: ©Science China Press The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and...
Interlayer ligand engineering of β-Ni(OH)2 for oxygen evolution reaction
Credit: ©Science China Press Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key process for many energy devices such as electrolyzers and rechargeable metal-air batteries. Tremendous studies...
