Capturing High Pressures in Diamond Capsules
by Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research
Preservation of the high-pressure states of materials at ambient conditions is a long-sought-after goal for...
Uncovering the Secret of Ternary Polymer Solar Cell Success
A University of Tsukuba and Hiroshima University team takes a close look at a ternary polymer solar cell in operation to see why the...
A Block Copolymer that could Enable Safer, more Stable Batteries
Polymers — Better battery electrolytes
New polymer materials under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could enable safer, more stable batteries needed for electric vehicles...
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Tons of Waste
An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries...
Carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds
Novel plate-cell architecture reaches theoretical limit of performance
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices – nanometer-sized carbon...
Microstructures Self-Assemble into New Materials
A new process developed at Caltech makes it possible for the first time to manufacture large quantities of materials whose structure is designed at...
Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...
Diamonds in your devices: powering the next generation of energy storage
Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity, scientists find supercapacitors, which have begun to stand...
Bending light around tight corners
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering,...
“Lazarus Superconductivity” Observed in uranium ditelluride
Researchers from the University of Maryland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) and the...
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