Materiales
Materiales
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...
Chemists invent a more efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites, oil fields, used batteries
16/04/2024
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Chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a more efficient way to extract lithium from waste liquids leached from mining sites, oil fields, and used...
Research revives 1800s photos
16/04/2024
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Researchers from Western University developed techniques for creating images from old, badly tarnished photographs. These techniques could also be used to study other historic artifacts and fossils...
Pyrite may contain valuable lithium, a key element for green energy
15/04/2024
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There's a reason airlines won't let you put your laptop in your checked luggage; the lithium-ion battery poses a serious fire hazard. But why? Lithium is incredibly reactive. For instance, pure...
SILVER NANO WIRE AND NOBLE-METAL COATED SILVER NANO WIRE CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES WITH LOW LOADING PERCOLATION CONDUCTION
14/04/2024
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Composite materials with noble metal coated silver nanowires loaded into polymer are described. The composite materials may have resistivities of no more than about 100 Ohm-cm, or from about 100...
Making cement is very damaging for the climate. One solution is opening in California
14/04/2024
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It's a major contributor to climate change—the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It's also a problem that's growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find...
Researchers study effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers
14/04/2024
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In a new paper published in JACS Au, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign analyzed the effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers, with implications for critical...
A novel machine learning model for the characterization of material surfaces
14/04/2024
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Machine learning (ML) enables the accurate and efficient computation of fundamental electronic properties of binary and ternary oxide surfaces, as shown by scientists from Tokyo Tech. Their ML-based...
Polysaccharide-based membranes with high wet mechanical properties for bone repair
11/04/2024
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Currently, membrane materials play an important role in tissue repair, especially polysaccharide-based membranes, attracting much attention due to their excellent biological properties. However, poor...
Researchers show electrical pulses can control thermal resistance in devices
11/04/2024
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Controlling heat flow is key to enhancing performance in a wide variety of systems. In electronic devices, such as mobile phones or any type of processor, overheating decreases their performance and...
New quantum material promises up to 190% quantum efficiency in solar cells
11/04/2024
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Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
MULTILAYER GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITE PRODUCED BY LASER IRRADIATION/CONDUCTIVE POLYMER/METAL NANOSTRUCTURES AND ITS APPLICATION AS ELECTRODE FOR THE ENZYMATIC AND NON-ENZYMATIC DETECTION OF GLUCOSE.
10/04/2024
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The present invention relates to manufacturing a multilayer graphene electrode produced from the carbonization of a polymeric matrix by irradiating an infrared laser, later modified on the surface...
New spectrometer helps identify alternative catalyst materials for affordable hydrogen fuel cells
10/04/2024
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Fuel cells are quickly becoming a viable, clean energy alternative to commonly used fossil fuels, such as gasoline, coal, and oil. Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy resources that release carbon...
New molecular device unlocks potential for targeted drug delivery and self-healing materials
10/04/2024
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In a new breakthrough that could revolutionize medical and material engineering, scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind molecular device that controls the release of multiple small molecules...
A microbial plastic factory for high-quality green plastic
10/04/2024
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Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture-resistant and highly biodegradable even in seawater. The Kobe University...