Tag: Berkeley Lab
Designer Materials to Keep Plastic Out of Landfills
– By Alison Hatt
Scientists have designed a new material system to overcome one of the biggest challenges in recycling consumer products: mixed-plastic recycling. Their achievement will...
Scientists Bring Polymers Into Atomic-Scale Focus
From water bottles and food containers to toys and tubing, many modern materials are made of plastics. And while we produce about 110 million...
A solar cell that does double duty for renewable energy
Researchers develop an artificial photosynthesis system that generates hydrogen fuel and electricity at the same time
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil...
Ancient pigment can boost energy efficiency
A color developed by Egyptians thousands of years ago has a modern-day application as well – the pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling...
Ordered magnetic patterns in disordered magnetic material
A team of scientists working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has confirmed a special property known as "chirality—which...
