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Nanocomposite-Based Method to Create Highly Efficient Solar Cells

A new technique to develop unique solar cells could considerably enhance their efficiency.

3 Feb 2021

Researchers Address Ways to Produce Tiny Batteries for Microelectronics

Two researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology and Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden have presented a commentary on the topic “Tiny robots and sensors need tiny batteries – here’s how to do it” in the latest issue of the scientific journal, Nature.

21 Jan 2021

STREM Chemicals, Inc. Licenses New Class of Air-Stable Ni(0) Pre-Catalysts from Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

STREM Chemicals, Inc. has licensed a technology based on recent developments in the field of Ni(0) (pre)catalysts from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung respectively the associated Studiengesellschaft Kohle mbH. The new Ni(0)-olefin pre-catalyst provides a simple, scalable and modular Ni(0) source which is stable to air and room temperature and retains the reactivity demonstrated by Ni(0) catalysts currently used in organic chemistry and industrially relevant transformations.

15 Jan 2021

Graphene Used to Design Circuit Capable of Producing Clean, Limitless Power

Physicists from the University of Arkansas have successfully built a circuit that can capture graphene’s thermal motion and turn it into electrical current.

5 Oct 2020

Self-Assembled Peptide-Based Nanotubes Show Promise for Energy Harvesting Applications

Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and lead-based perovskites.

16 Sep 2020

Nanoparticles Could Deliver Heat Stress Relief to Plants

New research suggests that nanotechnology could help protect plants against heat stress caused by soaring temperatures and lengthy heatwaves. The breakthrough is the next step in a field provisionally referred to as ‘plant therapeutics’ that could revolutionize agriculture.

26 Aug 2020

New Method Improves Performance, Efficiency of Ultrafine Bimetallic Nanoparticles

Supported bimetallic catalysts are an important class of catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis.

3 Aug 2020

Researchers Engineer 2D Graphene Nanomaterial to Create Novel Cathode

The rapid development of renewable energy resources has triggered tremendous demands in large-scale, cost-efficient and high-energy-density stationary energy storage systems.

7 Jul 2020

Novel Nano-Catalyst for Use as Anode Material in Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell

Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences designed and synthesized a functional ternary Pt/Re/SnO2/C catalyst as an anode material in a direct ethanol fuel cell.

25 Jun 2020

New Hollow Nanomaterials Could Improve Lifetime, Stability of Batteries

An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density without reducing battery lifetime.

10 Jun 2020