Characterization news, May 2020

New technique helps solve puzzle of battery decline

By combining machine learning with X-ray tomography, scientists have produced a detailed picture of how battery cathodes degrade with use.

Defects may make some perovskites more colorful

Scientists think that defects in low-dimensional perovskites may be responsible for their broad emission spectrum and large color variation.

Single crystals reveal insights into workings of polycrystalline electrodes

Scientists have used single-crystal electrodes to reveal information about the workings of polycrystalline electrodes in advanced silicon-ion batteries.

Acta Journals’ Outstanding Reviewers in 2019

New method mixes things up for bimetallic nanoparticles

A novel method for mixing metals generally known to be immiscible at the nanoscale can create a new range of bimetallic nanoparticles.

Applied Energy - Special Issue on "COVID-19 impacts on Energy and Environment"

Call for Applications: The 2020 Microelectronic Engineering and Micro and Nano Engineering Journals (Elsevier), Young Investigator Award and Lectureship

The award is to honor a young researcher active in the fields of Nanofabrication and Nanotechnology for Electronics, MEMS and Life Sciences.

Physicists go to the edge to detect superconducting currents

For the first time, researchers have discovered superconducting currents traveling along the outer edges of a superconductor with topological properties.