Energy

Storing renewable energy even when there is no sun or wind

New class of polymers brings cheaper grid batteries

How to turn food waste into clean water and power

Food waste can be repurposed to supply drinking water and power while reducing the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

Understanding thermionic emission in graphene

Improving on Dirac cone approximation in graphene thermionic emission

Ultra-thin gold only a couple of atoms thick

Gold nano sheets for flexible electronic applications

Quantum materials could find uses in light-controlled electronic devices

Weyl semimetals could be used to fabricate new photonic devices

Thermal superinsulator effectively captures solar heat

Aerogel helps to heat the house as renewable energy

Materials Today: The Future of Materials Science

New electric field effect turns on perovskites

new type of electric field effect can control light emission from perovskite devices

Perspectives on the materials research landscape

Two new reports, now available for download.

Peptides show 2D materials that are barrier-free

2D materials assemble one row at a time to skip the energy barrier

Scientists strain to produce better catalytic nanosheets

Scientists have shown that applying strain to thin metal sheets can increase their catalytic ability by 10 to 20 times.

Solar sandwich

Solar sandwich breaks efficiency barrier.

'Sea-snake' triboelectric generator could harvest ocean wave energy

Revisiting an old technology to capture energy from the rolling sea.

Cold battery

Organic lithium ion battery will work in outer space.