Breakthrough in Cathode Chemistry Clears Path for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries’ Commercial Viability
America’s growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) has shed light on the significant challenge of sustainably sourcing the battery technology necessary for the broad...
Drexel’s MXene Filter Materials for Wearable Artificial Kidney Technology
Drexel University’s MXene material is one step closer to transforming the lives of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Nephria Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based...
Templating Approach Stabilises ‘ideal’ Material for Alternative Solar Cells
Researchers have developed a method to stabilise a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance.
The researchers, from...
Scientists Develop Fully Woven, Smart Display
Researchers have developed a 46-inch (116cm) woven display with smart sensors, energy harvesting and storage integrated directly into the fabric.
By integrating fibre-based electronics, photonic,...
AI to Help Scale up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.
David...
A New Heat Engine with no Moving Parts is as Efficient...
The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...
Researchers Demonstrate use of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Degrade Plastics
Method efficiently breaks down plastic bottles into component parts
What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle...
3D Printing Smart Clothes with a New Liquid Metal-Alginate Ink
“Liquid Metal Microgels for Three-Dimensional Printing of Smart Electronic Clothes”
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
In the future, smart clothing might monitor our posture, communicate with...
Seeing More Deeply into Nanomaterials
New 3D imaging tool reveals engineered and self-assembled nanoparticle lattices with highest resolution yet—7nm—about 1/100,000 of the width of a human hair
UPTON, NY—From designing...
When Atoms Get Out of Line
Author Rebecca McDonald
How materials are impacted by the extreme conditions of a nuclear reactor
The inside of a nuclear reactor is a treacherous place. Neutrons, escaping from unstable, radioactive atoms, collide with neighboring atoms, causing...
