Researchers make organic solar cells immune to the ravages of water, air and light
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, May 3, 2019 - The market for organic solar cells is expected to grow more than ...
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Exploding electrical wires underwater to understand shock waves
Researchers offer a new tool to characterize shock waves with their experimentally confirmed model that describes the relationship between the ...
Laser-driven spin dynamics in ferrimagnets: How does the angular momentum flow?
Credit: Photograph by Erik Gustafson, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Margrethe Bohr Collection. When exposed to intense laser ...
High thermal conductivity of new material will create energy efficient devices
Researchers at the University of Bristol have successfully demonstrated the high thermal conductivity of a new material, paving the way ...
Transforming waste heat into clean energy
Researchers use supercomputers to explore new materials for thermoelectric generationCredit: Ruben de Rijcke, Creative Commons Do you feel the warmth ...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2019
Credit: Joe Insely, Silvio Rizzi and HACC Team/Argonne National Laboratory Computing--Virtual universes Using Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer housed ...
Shrink films get a grip (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Many people fondly remember playing with toys known as Shrinky Dinks® -- sheets of polystyrene plastic ...
Searching for lost WWII-era uranium cubes from Germany
University of Maryland researchers are piecing together what exactly happened to hundreds of cubes of uranium from a secretive and ...
Making glass more clear
New approach predicts glass' always-evolving behaviors at different temperaturesCredit: Wenjie Xia/NIST EVANSTON, Ill. -- Not everything about glass is clear. ...
Scientists develop stereodefined N and S atom-codoped graphdiyne for oxygen evolution
Credit: ZHAO Yasong The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great significance in energy-related techniques, such as metal-air batteries and ...
Researchers design a strategy to make graphene luminescent
Lighter than aluminum, harder than a diamond, more elastic than rubber and tougher than steel. These are only a few ...
Berkeley Lab science snapshots April 2019
Credit: Berkeley Lab When there are multiple factors at play in a situation that is itself changing, such as an ...
New polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
Material may replace many metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, refrigerators, and electronicsCredit: Image courtesy of Gang Chen ...
Researchers discover new charge transfer and separation process
SUTD worked with an international team of researchers to develop glutathione fluorescent probes based on the discovery of Twisted Intramolecular ...