A flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made of wrinkled titanium carbide maintained its ability to store and release electronic charges after repetitive stretching. Credit: American Chemical…
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Just as important as understanding how best to capture CO2 is understanding how to use it. A new study details how CO2 can be converted…
Ammonia, a carbon-free resource can be split into nitrogen and hydrogen gas with the help of metal catalysts like Nickel (Ni). However, these reactions often…
New catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost. A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gases into jet or…
Illustration of a partial Dyson sphere around a star. Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them – they’re also…
Credit: Eric Byler/The Australian National University Scientists at The Australian National UniversityFounded in 1946, the Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located…
Tube furnace pyrolysis reactor. Credit: Aihui Chen, Xifeng Liu, Haibin Zhang, Hao Wu, Dong Xu, Bo Li and Chenxi Zhao Wood vinegar and tar fraction…
A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a bioprocess using engineered yeast that completely and efficiently converted plant matter consisting of…
A global inventory has revealed that CO2 emissions from oil refineries were 1.3 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 2018 and could be as large as 16.5 Gt…
For the first time, Manganese complexes show the types of luminescent properties and photocatalytic behavior that were primarily associated with noble metal compounds until now.…
“Blue” hydrogen – an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas – is being lauded by many…
The magnet system of Wendelstein 7-X. Fifty superconducting magnet coils create the magnetic cage for confining the plasma. In the twisted coil forms, computational optimization…
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells…
Image of the inside of a magnetic confinement experiment during plasma discharge. In a tokamak, plasma particles are confined and shaped by magnetic field lines…
Reactor Operator Nicholas Thompson of Los Alamos National Laboratory helps to set up the neutron clustering measurements at the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility at Rensselaer…
Figuring out the density and locational dynamics of iron atoms unlocks a level of efficiency in the fuel cell oxidation reaction never before realized. Credit:…
“Founding Father” of Lithium-Ion Batteries Helps Solve Persistent 40-Year Problem With His Invention
The “Founding Father” of lithium-ion batteries used SNS neutrons to confirm coating cathode material (blue) with lithium-free niobium oxide (light green) greatly reduced first-cycle capacity…
The cardiac pacemaker of the future could be powered by the heart itself, according to researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Credit: Yi Zhiran Method…
Purified tin selenide has extraordinarily high thermoelectric performance. Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device,…
Neutron scattering was used to study a disordered rock salt that could be used to make safer, faster-charging battery anodes. Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman One of…