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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...
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...
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.
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...