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Materiales
Light-activated materials perform well in treatment of textile effluent
23/04/2024
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Photoelectrochemical processes have been considered sustainable alternatives for the remediation of water contaminated by domestic or industrial effluents. Simply put, the strategy consists of using...
Plastic food packaging can contain harmful chemicals that affect hormones and metabolism, researchers find
23/04/2024
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Plastic is a very complex material that can contain many different chemicals, some of which can be harmful. This is also true for plastic food packaging.
Opinion: Environmental sustainability and consumption
23/04/2024
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One of the politically destructive strands of environmental advocacy criticizes material consumption and attempts to make people feel guilty for air travel and other forms of behavior that pollutes...
Czechs 3D-print Eiffel Tower from ocean waste for Olympics
23/04/2024
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A Czech company is 3D-printing a giant Eiffel Tower model for a local Olympics event, using recycled ocean waste as the primary material.
Aerogel-based phase change materials improve thermal management, reduce microwave emissions in electronic devices
23/04/2024
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Electronic devices are getting more and more complex as they are built to carry out an ever-increasing number of functions. This can be seen in the increased functionality in our personal devices...
Extracting high-purity gold from electrical and electronic waste
23/04/2024
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Korea relies on imports for most of its metal resources, and in recent years, due to resource depletion and rising raw material prices, 'circular resources' that recycle waste metal resources have...
Scientists fabricate composites that combine high strength and bioactivity inspired by the cortical bone
23/04/2024
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Researchers have created scaffolds with enhanced strength by fabricating 20 vol% polydopamine-modified nano hydroxyapatite (pDA-nHA), featuring a distinctive lamellar structure. These scaffolds were...
Exploring the potential of single-atom catalysts
23/04/2024
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There is a high level of interest, even excitement, among chemists and materials scientists about the potential of single-atom catalysts (SACs), but their development relies on very specialized tools...
Energy-smart bricks keep waste out of landfill
23/04/2024
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Engineers have invented energy-efficient bricks with scrap materials, including glass, that are normally destined for landfill.
Researchers uncover kinky metal alloy that won't crack at extreme temperatures at the atomic level
22/04/2024
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A metal alloy composed of niobium, tantalum, titanium, and hafnium has shocked materials scientists with its impressive strength and toughness at both extremely hot and cold temperatures, a...
Plasma treatment enhances electrode material for fuel cells in industry, homes and vehicles
22/04/2024
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Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have improved the properties of a carbon-based electrode material by exposing it to air plasma. Such treatment turned out to enhance electrode...
Accelerating the discovery of new materials via the ion-exchange method
21/04/2024
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Tohoku University researchers have unveiled a new means of predicting how to synthesize new materials via the ion-exchange. Based on computer simulations, the method significantly reduces the time...
Researchers develop sodium battery capable of rapid charging in just a few seconds
21/04/2024
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Sodium (Na), which is over 500 times more abundant than lithium (Li), has recently garnered significant attention for its potential in sodium-ion battery technologies. However, existing sodium-ion...
Materials follow the 'Rule of Four,' but scientists don't know why yet
18/04/2024
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Scientists are normally happy to find regularities and correlations in their data—but only if they can explain them. Otherwise, they worry that those patterns might just be revealing some flaw in...
Sink to source: Does what we put into our plumbing end up back in the water supply?
17/04/2024
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When you see an advertisement for a detergent promising to brighten your clothes, something called a fluorescent whitening compound, or optical brightener, is probably involved. Such material absorbs...
From defects to order: Spontaneously emerging crystal arrangements in perovskite halides
17/04/2024
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Perovskites are among the most extensively studied materials in modern materials science. Their often unique and exotic properties, which stem from perovskite's peculiar crystal structure, could find...
New research could enable more—and more efficient—synthesis of metastable materials
17/04/2024
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Ion exchange is a powerful technique for converting one material to another when synthesizing new products. In this process, scientists know what reactants lead to what products, but how the process...
New material for hydrogen storage confines this clean yet troublesome fuel
17/04/2024
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Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of RAS and research centers in China, Japan, and Italy have discovered a material for chemical storage of hydrogen...
Novel method proposed to design high-efficiency guest components for ternary organic solar cells
17/04/2024
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A research group led by Prof. Ge Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a key strategy for optimizing guest components to...