Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
Tags: electrons, The Lithiation Front, Silicon
There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) shows that nearly 90-percent of the ...
Nanovere Technologies has introduced Nano-Clear for industrial applications, designed to dramatically improve corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance and prevent the underlying paint from UV degradation. Nano-Clear is the only industrial ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
A team of researchers working at the university of Notre Dame has discovered a whole new group of quasicrystals. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they accidently created a new kind of quasicrystal as ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far shorter than light waves and can be "tuned" to particular frequencies and ...
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Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
Tags: Hybrid Fuel Cell, Electricity
Famously creative businesses like Pixar, Google, Apple and Disney have become well known for promoting a team-building environment. They accomplish this not just by reorganizing their infrastructure to make it more team friendly, but also ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Office Space, Office Furniture
Sichuan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co. (Pangang Group) has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 3 billion ($483.9 million) on March 4. This will be the company's first ...
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
One of the world's most common and costly chemical reactions, corrosion happens frequently at the boundaries between water and metal surfaces. In the past, the process of corrosion has mostly been studied from the metal side of the ...
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Computer chips used in next-generation smartphones and supercomputers can't get much faster without overheating.That's why engineers hope carbon nanotubes offer a possible cooling solution that could enable processing speeds to continue ...
A large-scale human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention/education effort aimed at helping South African men take a proactive role in the prevention of that disease has proven successful, an important development considering that ...
Tags: HIV, STI, infection, Circle of Men
A new kind of paper that is made of wood fibers yet is 96% transparent could be a revolutionary material for next-generation solar cells. Coming from plants, the paper is inexpensive and more environmentally friendly than the plastic ...
On January 21, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 1 billion ($163.9 million) on January 24 and January 26. This will be ...
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has raised around NZD250m ($207m), under a five-year dim sum bond issue, in a move to develop its business in China. The dim sum bonds have been issued as part of Fonterra Treasury's ...
Tags: Fonterra, Chinese Operations, dairy