Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Aluminum Batteries
Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Aluminum Batteries: A good battery needs two things: high energy density to power devices, and stability, so it can be...
Making Bioplastics that are Easier to Compost
MSU research shows how putting starch into a bio-based polymer can make it more compostable, helping divert plastic waste
Making Bioplastics that are Easier to...
Insights into Designing Advanced Stimuli-Responsive Materials
Insights into Designing Advanced Stimuli-Responsive Materials: The "nothing" (empty space) feature of porous soft materials is foundational to their properties and applications, and has...
Catalyst can Control Methane Emissions in Natural Gas Engines
Catalyst can Control Methane Emissions in Natural Gas Engines: PULLMAN, Wash. — A catalyst using a single or just a few palladium atoms removed...
Catalyst Dramatically Cut Methane Pollution from Engines
Researchers demonstrate a way to remove the potent greenhouse gas from the exhaust of engines that burn natural gas.
Catalyst Dramatically Cut Methane Pollution from...
Giving Superconducting Nickelates a Boost
It irons out wrinkles in thin films of these novel superconductors so scientists can see their true nature for the first time.
Giving Superconducting Nickelates...
New Carbon-Fiber Tape from Thermoplastic Composites
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology has perfected high-quality unwinding of reinforcements used in pressure tanks, retaining more than 90% mechanical strength in the...
Finding Holes in Conjugated Polymer Theory
A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge reveals a surprising discovery that could transform the future of electrochemical devices. The findings...
Physicists Discover an Exotic Material Made of Bosons
Physicists Discover an Exotic Material Made of Bosons: Take a lattice — a flat section of a grid of uniform cells, like a window...
Material Shows Promise for Next Gen Memory Technology
Material Shows Promise for Next Gen Memory Technology: Phase change memory is a type of nonvolatile memory that harnesses a phase change material's (PCM)...
