Materiales

Materiales

New method provides automated calculation of surface properties in crystals
28/03/2024 - Computer-based methods are becoming an increasingly powerful tool in the search for new materials for key technologies such as photovoltaics, batteries, and data transmission. Prof. Dr. Caterina...
Team discovers fundamentally new way to detect radiation involving cheap ceramics
28/03/2024 - The radiation detectors used today for applications like inspecting cargo ships for smuggled nuclear materials are expensive and cannot operate in harsh environments, among other disadvantages. Now,...
Critical materials assessment tags potential supply chain bottlenecks
28/03/2024 - Global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased from 716,000 vehicles in 2015 to 10.6 million vehicles in 2022. Meanwhile, demand rose for the materials used in EV batteries such as graphite,...
Customized silicon chips for material characterization of printed electronics
28/03/2024 - How efficient are new materials? Does changing the properties lead to better conductivity? The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS develops and manufactures silicon substrates for...
Scientists discover how caterpillars can stop their bleeding in seconds
27/03/2024 - Blood is a remarkable material: it must remain fluid inside blood vessels, yet clot as quickly as possible outside them, to stop bleeding. The chemical cascade that makes this possible is well...
Findings pave way for longer-lasting solid-state batteries
27/03/2024 - Lithium-ion batteries contain flammable materials that could pose a safety risk under certain conditions. Dr. Yaser Abu-Lebdeh is one of the researchers using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the...
Manila confronts its plastic problem through a community-guided protocol
26/03/2024 - Governments and international organizations have touted the circular economy, in which materials and products stay in circulation for as long as possible, as an antidote to our global plastic...
Enhancing fire safety: The emergence of PA-DAD as a sustainable flame retardant for epoxy resin composites
26/03/2024 - Epoxy resin (EP), an essential material in various applications such as adhesives, coatings, and composites, faces challenges due to its intrinsic flammability and dense smoke production, posing...
Researchers reveal new method for calculating mechanical properties of solids using machine learning
26/03/2024 - A research team from Skoltech introduced a new method that takes advantage of machine learning for studying the properties of polycrystals, composites, and multiphase systems. It attained high...
New concrete possibilities from waste materials
26/03/2024 - The use of recycled concrete and glass aggregates in concrete production has emerged as a highly promising means of increasing the recycling rate of waste materials—but durability issues have...
Rethinking wind power's towers and turbines
26/03/2024 - New materials and designs can make a leading source of renewable energy both greener and cheaper.
Novel multifunctional additive boosts efficiency, stability of inverted perovskite solar cells
26/03/2024 - Prof. Ge Ziyi's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel multifunctional additive to passivate defects and...
Electrochemistry helps clean up electronic waste recycling, precious metal mining
26/03/2024 - A new method safely extracts valuable metals locked up in discarded electronics and low-grade ore using dramatically less energy and fewer chemical materials than current methods, report University...
Research lights up process for turning CO₂ into sustainable fuel
26/03/2024 - Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new...
Rectifying AI's usage in the quest for thermoelectric materials
25/03/2024 - A team of researchers has used AI to identify a thermoelectric material with favorable values. The group was able to navigate AI's conventional pitfalls and big data challenges, offering a prime...
Filming ultrafast molecular motions in single crystal
25/03/2024 - Understanding the behavior of matter is crucial for advancing scientific fields like biology, chemistry, and materials science. X-ray crystallography has been instrumental in this pursuit, allowing...
New all-liquid iron flow battery for grid energy storage
25/03/2024 - A commonplace chemical used in water treatment facilities has been repurposed for large-scale energy storage in a new battery design by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest...
Novel quantum algorithm proposed for high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimization problems
25/03/2024 - Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) have applications in many different fields such as logistics, supply chain management, machine learning, material design and drug discovery, among others,...
An effective method for improving energy storage performance in lead-free relaxor ferroelectrics
25/03/2024 - Next-generation advanced high/pulsed power capacitors urgently require dielectric materials with outstanding energy storage performance. (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based material, a typical lead-free...
A strategy to suppress strain propagation in ultrahigh-Ni cathodes during fast charging
25/03/2024 - To meet the growing demand of the electronics industry and support the widespread deployment of electric vehicles, researchers will need to develop increasingly advanced and highly performing battery...
Research team introduces superaerophobic three-dimensional nickel catalysts for accelerated water electrolysis
24/03/2024 - Water electrolysis process is a system that produces hydrogen by electrolyzing water. It is an eco-friendly technology that can produce hydrogen fuel, a future energy source, without emitting...