Materials comment, April 2014

New material that cleans decontaminated water

‘Engineered living material’ that decontaminates pollutants from water

Thinnest possible MOF film separates hydrogen and nitrogen

A novel metal-organic framework film with the smallest possible thickness can perform record levels of hydrogen-nitrogen separation.

Hard-carbon anode supports high energy density in sodium-ion battery

Researchers have developed a novel porous, carbon-based anode material that can increase the energy density of sodium-ion batteries.

Highly adaptable SEI/CEI interfacial layers enabling remarkable performance of high-nickel solid-state batteries

Single-shot forward and inverse hierarchical architected materials design for nonlinear mechanical properties using an Attention-Diffusion model