Tag: Advanced Materials
Flameproofing Lithium-Ion Batteries with Salt
A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F.
Flameproofing Lithium-Ion Batteries...
Adventures in Nanotech: Growing a Metallic Snowflake
Scientists working at the level of atoms are manipulating metals, opening up possibilities for creating new materials.
Adventures in Nanotech: Growing a Metallic Snowflake: Scientists...
Paper-Thin Solar Cell Can Turn any Surface into a Power Source
Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface.
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
Paper-Thin Solar...
Lithium-Metal Batteries Benefit from Interphase Insight
Lithium-Metal Batteries Benefit from Interphase Insight: Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution, in...
New Way to Explore Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials
New Way to Explore Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials: John Crocker had expected to see a flat line — a familiar horizontal track with...
A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History
A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History: Inspired by living systems, researchers at Aalto University have developed a new material that changes...
NYC Tries Plastic Roads
NYC Tries Plastic Roads
If you can make a plastic road in New York City, can you make it anywhere?
The Big Apple is in the...
Transparent Plastic that’s Highly Conductive
Transparent Plastic that's Highly Conductive: It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work. Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia...
Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic
Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third...
Nanomaterials Treat Obesity Anywhere You Want
Columbia researchers discover that the cationic charged P-G3 reduces fat at targeted locations by inhibiting the unhealthy lipid storage of enlarged fat cells
Nanomaterials Treat...
