Tag: Materials

Credit: Ilias Belharouak/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb 5, 2020 - Energy storage startup ...

Army scientists look inside batteries with a molecular eye

Credit: U.S. Army photo by Jhi Scott ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 5, 2020) - Scientists are closer to understanding exactly what ...

The shape of water: What water molecules look like on the surface of materials

Scientist combine data analysis techniques with molecular dynamics simulations to understand the structure of water on material surfaces.Credit: Tokyo University ...

How manipulating ligand interactions in metal clusters can spur advances in nanotechnology

Researchers uncover how interactions among ligands dictate the final structure of metal clusters, which have various applications in modern electronic ...

Cathode ‘defects’ improve battery performance

A counterintuitive finding revealed by high-precision powder diffraction analyses suggests a new strategy for building better batteriesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Roll up

Regioselective functionalization of perylenes reduces voltage loss in organic solar cells

Credit: NINS/IMS The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on blends of electron donor (D) and acceptor ...

Scientists learn more about the first hours of a lithium-ion battery’s life

New technology enables nanoscale molecular view of self-assembling gateway structure withinCredit: Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL The first hours of a ...

Fast screening for potential new catalysts

February 4, 2020

ElectrochemistryCredit: RUB, Marquard It helps to directly ascertain the potential of a possible alloy. The team reports in the journal ...

New quasi-particle discovered: The Pi-ton

February 4, 2020

Actually they had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of ...

Making light work

McMaster and Harvard researchers create 'intelligent' interaction between light and material, establishing a promising new platform for computingCredit: McMaster University ...

Making high-temperature superconductivity disappear to understand its origin

Scientists have collected evidence suggesting that a purely electronic mechanism causes copper-oxygen compounds to conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures ...

New quantum switch turns metals into insulators

Credit: Berend Zwartsenberg/SBQMI Most modern electronic devices rely on tiny, finely-tuned electrical currents to process and store information. These currents ...

A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow