Scientists have witnessed the concentration of lithium inside individual nanoparticles in a battery electrode reverse during power generation.
30 January 2018
Cleaning nanotubes through heat and ion bombardment.
26 January 2018Laurie Donaldson
Using carbon nanotubes and modified graphene nano ribbons in fuel cells.
26 January 2018Laurie Donaldson
Photocatalyst based on titanium dioxide can turn carbon dioxide into usable fuel and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.
25 January 2018Cordelia Sealy
An innovative platinum and copper alloy catalyst can convert methane from shale gas into hydrocarbon fuels without becoming coated in carbon.
22 January 2018
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons could replace the platinum cathodes that currently reduce oxygen in fuel cells.
22 January 2018
The topological insulator trisodium bismuthide can be as electronically smooth as the highest-quality graphene-based devices.
19 January 2018
The transfer of energy from nanomaterials to molecules can go both ways, causing the nanomaterials to photoluminesce over long timescales.
15 January 2018
Lithium-ion batteries designed to be safer in an accident.
12 January 2018Laurie Donaldson
Read our latest series and find out about materials science researchers in New Zealand and Australia.
12 January 2018
Jellyfish-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator can harvest energy from waves and power sensors that can detect fluctuations in the water surface.
12 January 2018Cordelia Sealy
Comparing the results reported in thousands of papers about the properties of MOFs revealed that replicability could be a problem in material science.
12 January 2018
Adding water to asphalt-derived porous carbon produces a material that can adsorb more than two times its weight of carbon dioxide.
11 January 2018
Electric eel inspires energy system for wearables.
11 January 2018David Bradley
Quick, split and make hydrogen from water.
11 January 2018David Bradley
Flexible stretchable bacterial bio-batteries.
10 January 2018David Bradley
Solar power device like a double-glazed window offers new approach.
8 January 2018Laurie Donaldson
First technique capable of determining lithium metal plating during lithium ion battery charging reported in Materials Today.
5 January 2018
A new method based on vaporizing a frozen solution with a laser can create hybrid thin-film materials that would otherwise be impossible to make.
5 January 2018
Batteries powered by sweat made completely from fabric
5 January 2018Laurie Donaldson
Using analytical techniques, scientists have discovered how the atomic structure of lithium-rich battery cathodes evolves during charging and discharging.
4 January 2018
Scientists have developed an entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery that could one day be integrated into wearable electronics.
2 January 2018