Fast and furious: New class of 2D materials stores electrical energy
Two dimensional titanium carbides, so-called MXenes, are being discussed as candidates for the rapid storage of electrical energyCredit: HZB/Martin Künsting ...
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Plastic from wood
X-ray analysis points the way to lignin-based components made to measureCredit: KTH Stockholm, Marcus Jawerth The biopolymer lignin is a ...
How do you make adhesives for electronics, vehicles, and construction tougher?
Credit: Jonathan Wilker/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Make them tougher by making them weaker. That's the proposed solution from ...
MTU engineers zap and unstick underwater smart glue
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech With a small zap of electricity, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University take an underwater smart ...
Improving shoes, showers, 3D printing: Research launching to the space station
A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX ...
Atomic vacancy as quantum bit
Credit: (Image: Mehran Kianinia, University of Technology Sydney) Although boron nitride looks very similar to graphene in structure, it has ...
New study reveals the secret of magmatic rocks consisting of only one mineral
Geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, have come up with an original explanation of how nature may produce ...
Gold in limbo between solid and melted states
By capturing the laser-induced structural changes happening in polycrystalline gold thin films over time, scientists determined that melting does not ...
The flagship of the International Winter School 2020 is the ‘Two Capitals’ joint course
The 'Two Capitals' joint course of SPbPU and RUDNCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Understanding mechanics and materials though evolution and biomaterials
Scientists will present research on the mechanical and physical properties of skeletal evolution, biomaterials, and aging at the APS March ...
Professor Frank Steglich receives the Fritz London Memorial Prize
Professor Frank Steglich, Director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, is awarded the ...
Scientists came up with nanoconcrete for casting under negative temperature conditions
Credit: Fons Heijnsbroek (@fonsheijnsbroek51), Unsplash Engineers from Far Eastern Federal University Military training center (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia) together with colleagues ...
New state-of-the-MOF materials
Converting crystalline metal-organic frameworks into glass or liquid could give them unique properties and lead to the design of new ...
Polymers get caught up in love-hate chemistry of oil and water
Credit: Credit: Michelle Lehman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University ...
Shaping the future of machine learning for active matter
Credit: Malin Arnesson Now researchers are presenting guidelines for how active matter, such as cells and microorganisms, can best be ...
Metal-organic frameworks can separate gases despite the presence of water
Credit: Vervoorts P. et al., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Jan. 27, 2020 Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials for ...
Cold sintering produces capacitor material at record low temperatures
Credit: Clive Randall, Penn State Barium titanate is an important electroceramic material used in trillions of capacitors each year and ...
How low can you go? Lower than ever before
NIST scientists make most sensitive measurements to date of silicon's conductivity for future solar cell, semiconductor applicationsCredit: S. Kelley/NIST Silicon, ...
Using light to put a twist on electrons
Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered materialCredit: Ella Maru Studio Some molecules, including ...
Perovskite solar cells made of peppermint oil and walnut aroma food additives, preventing lead leakage
Credit: Taiho Park (POSTECH) Solar energy that reaches the Earth is about 125 million gigawatt (Gw). When this solar energy ...
