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Seaweed Battery Paves Way for Environment-Friendly Energy Storage

A team led by Bristol is building a sturdy battery separator with seaweed-derived nanomaterials, paving the way for cleaner and more efficient energy storage.

6 Oct 2022

Nanocrystal Array Fabricated to Improve HER Activity

A recent Nature Communications study reported the fabrication of a two-dimensional (2D) layered metastable oxide, i.e., trigonal phase rhodium oxide, which serves as a platform for the fabrication of well-ordered, hexagonal patterned, face-centered cubic rhodium nanocrystal arrays to boost hydrogen production.

6 Oct 2022

Piezoelectric Behavior of ZnO Nanowires with Mechanical Actuation

A paper published in the journal Materials investigates the piezoelectric behavior of ZnO nanowires with mechanical actuation.

5 Oct 2022

The World’s Whitest Paint Has Been Made Thinner and Perfect for Vehicles

This year’s Guinness World Records and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” both featured the world’s whitest paint, which maintains surfaces so cool that it could lessen the need for air conditioning.

5 Oct 2022

Evaluating the Wound Healing Ability of Bioactive Glass

Wound healing is a complex process that involves multiple cell types and biological pathways. As it is a time-delayed process, dressing materials can protect the wound from external hazards in the interim of the healing process.

4 Oct 2022

Study Highlights Impacts of Contaminants on Two-Dimensional Materials

The surfaces of two-dimensional materials can randomly absorb and interact with molecules in the surrounding environment during manufacturing and preservation. This phenomenon, which significantly influences many charact...

4 Oct 2022

Improving the Microstructural Evolution and Tensile Ductility of Mo Alloys

Microstructural evolution alters the macroscopic properties of metal-based materials, and ductility provides them with mechanical strength to retain deformation under tensile load without fracture.

4 Oct 2022

Rapid Synthesis of Sodium Nanocomposite for Supercapacitors and Batteries

Sodium-ion batteries and supercapacitors could be used in many portable and large-scale energy storage applications as alternatives to lithium-ion batteries because of their low cost and non-toxicity.

3 Oct 2022

Feedback-Assisted Tuning of Low-Cost Electromechanical Resonators Using ZnO Nanowires

A recent study published in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials tackles this issue by establishing a technique for feedback-assisted tuning of low-cost electromechanical resonators using ZnO nanowire.

30 Sep 2022

Novel Technique Transfers Single Nanowires to Any Platform

Scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Materials have devised a method to accurately modify and position nanowires with sub-micron accuracy.

30 Sep 2022