How to capture waste heat energy with improved polymers
UMass Amherst chemists, electrical engineers identify new variable for material designCredit: UMass Amherst/Meenakshi Upadhyaya By one official estimate, American manufacturing, ...
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On the way to printable organic light emitting diodes
Researchers are developing an efficient OLED consisting of only one layerCredit: MPI-P Organic light-emitting diodes are components that no longer ...
Solar power with a free side of drinking water
Credit: © 2019 Wenbin Wang A multifunctional device that captures the heat shed by photovoltaic solar panels has been developed ...
CDC’s Dr. Pat Breysse to deliver keynote address at Legionella Conference 2019
Legionella Conference hosted by NSF International and NEHA brings together international experts to explore the relationship between water conservation and ...
Fusion scientists have developed ‘the nano-scale sculpture technique’
This enables observation inside hard materials with an atomic-scaleCredit: NIFS A research team of fusion scientists has succeeded in developing ...
Organic solar cells will last 10 years in space
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology, the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS, and ...
Left out to dry: A more efficient way to harvest algae biomass
University of Tsukuba researchers developed a new, highly efficient system for removing water from algae biomass with reusable nanostructured graphene, ...
A new rare metals alloy can change shape in the magnetic field
Scientists developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their size and volume ...
Window film could even out the indoor temperature using solar energy
Credit: Kasper Moth-Poulsen/Chalmers University of Technology A window film with a specially designed molecule could be capable of taking the ...
Activity of fuel cell catalysts doubled
Modelling leads to the optimum size for platinum fuel cell catalystsCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM An interdisciplinary research team at ...
Research on sustainable conversion of lignn into valuable chemical compounds funded
Siegfried Waldvogel is coordinating an EU project to convert waste into sustainable compounds in collaboration with an industrial consortiumCredit: Alexander ...
AI-designed heat pumps consume less energy
Credit: Alain Herzog/ EPFL Researchers at EPFL have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence to design next-generation heat-pump compressors. ...
HSE graduate develops self-repairing building material from mushroom spores
The project won the Outstanding Science Award at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).Credit: Anna Budnikova, HSE University ...
New chemical tools to modify and study biomolecules
Credit: J. Waser/B. Fierz (EPFL) Understanding the structure and metabolism of cells and living organisms is essential for the development ...
When kinetics and thermodynamics should play together
How the salinity of water affects calcium carbonate nucleationCredit: Washington University in St. Louis The formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) ...
Chemists give chance a helping hand
Developing a method for discovering new chemical reactions, Study in ChemCredit: Felix Strieth-Kalthoff Whether they are synthetic materials such as ...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2019
Credit: Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Materials--Soft drink science Oak Ridge National Laboratory has teamed with ...
Insects inspire greener, cheaper membranes for desalination
Credit: © 2019 Ivan Gromicho A new membrane made from water-wet materials has specially designed gas-entrapping pores that allow it ...
NSF award funds Pitt research on ionic liquids
NSF awards Pitt researcher $223,093 to study the interaction between ionic liquids and water PITTSBURGH (June 28, 2019) -- Ionic ...
Skoltech scientists found a way to control the electrical characteristics of optical memory devices
Organic electronics has been developing at a blistering pace over the last decade: flexible thin-film electronic circuits, sensors, displays, solar ...