Tag: PlasticStar
Rice Flashes New Life into Lithium-Ion Anodes
Fast ‘green’ process revives essential battery components for reuse
Rice Flashes New Life into Lithium-Ion Anodes: How many rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are you wearing? How...
Chemists Create Quantum Dots with Lab-Designed Protein
Wendy Plump, Department of Chemistry
Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that perform...
Starch-Based Material for Wearable Electronics Could be Made
by University of Groningen
Starch-Based Material for Wearable Electronics Could be Made: Soft, wearable sensors can improve our lives, but these soft and stretchable electronic devices...
2D Material may Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light
Novel device also combines light sensing, computing to save energy
2D Material may Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A...
Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth
A new study reveals the profound properties of a simple metal alloy
Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth: Scientists have measured the highest...
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...
Sustainability Students Bring Dead Solar Panels Back to Life
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell Chronicle
Sustainability Students Bring Dead Solar Panels Back to Life: Students are using polyurethane, resin, epoxy – and gallons of wit –...
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...
