Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, is an attractive electrode material for supercapacitor applications because of its high surface area. However, how the electrolytes interact with carbon material to store energy is still not well ...
Tags: Graphene Electrode, Electronics, Electrical
General Electric and partners BP and marine engineering company Oceaneering have jointly adapted existing medical x-ray machines to crawl along undersea pipelines looking for cracks or other problems. GE is of course a world leader in ...
In our daily lives we tend to think of electrical conductivity as largely static: Copper is a good choice for conduction; clay is not. But heat up that copper wire, and electron conduction slows. Give a flake of that ceramic a good squeeze, ...
The packaging firm worked with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and North Lanarkshire Council to facilitate Viridor's £25m investment for the project. The 'next generation' facility will use recycling technology ...
Tags: Glass Recycling, recycling technology, reduce energy costs
(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
Tags: Crystalline Structure, DNA, NSLS, virus
(Phys.org) —You use crystals everyday: sugar in your coffee, the active ingredient in hand warmers, maybe a diamond stud in your ear. A crystal is built of atoms arranged in a repeat pattern in all three dimensions. X-rays are good ...
Tags: Atomic Displacement, Crystal, NSLS-II, CSC
To keep up with ever-changing consumer demands for different package sizes and materials, manufacturers need flexible packaging equipment that has many configuration options for quick product changeovers. Known for its flexible, ...
The Leiden astrophysicist Alexey Boyarsky and his fellow researchers may have identified a trace of dark matter that could signify a new particle: the sterile neutrino. A research group in Harvard reported a very similar signal just a few ...
Tags: Light, Consumer Electronics
A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet—the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy—of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Jet
More than 99.9% of the mass of any atom is concentrated into a quadrillionth of its volume, the part occupied by the nucleus. Unimaginably small, dense and energetic, atomic nuclei are governed by laws quite distinct from those that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
New research, published in Earth and Planetary Research Letters, led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, used plankton – tiny bugs, whose shells litter the ocean floors. By drilling into the seabed scientists can extract ...
Tags: Seashells
The goal of making cheap organic solar cells may have gotten a little more approachable with a new understanding of the basic science of charge separation presented in a paper published online today, February 3, in Nature Communications. ...
Tags: Solar Cells
From bacteria to plants to humans,all organisms have mechanisms that they use to repair DNA damaged by ultraviolet(UV)light.This fundamental maintenance function is critical to our health because damaged DNA can lead to diseases such as ...