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Materials chemistry news, September 2018

Researchers have trained an artificial neural network to predict stable materials in two classes of crystals known as garnets and perovskites.

Vanadium-hydrogen battery goes with the flow

Rechargeable vanadium-hydrogen (V-H2) flow battery could be simplest option for renewable energy storage.

Replacing metallic nanoantennas with silicon ones for perovskites in solar cells.

inexpensive catalyst for water splitting could support a future hydrogen economy by enabling hydrogen to be produced readily and inexpensively

Boride nanowires deposited on carbon fiber cloth could form the basis of high capacity, stable supercapacitors for energy storage devices.

Scientists have developed a novel 3D printing process for creating hydrogels with complex 3D shapes and motions.

Lipo-hydrogel drug carrier for bone regeneration.

N-doped titania photocatalysts on oxidised carbon nanotube support show different properties and performance depending on the synthesis route that is used.

New approach uses hydrogen to overcome hydrogen-embrittlement problem in alloys for applications in extreme conditions.

Scientists have synthesized a novel organic/inorganic hybrid 2D material with promising electrical and magnetic properties.

A novel process for producing high-performance polymer gels combines spontaneous synthesis with fine control over molecular weight.

Researchers have developed a new method for 'printing' large-scale sheets of the 2D piezoelectric material gallium phosphate.

Novel composite membrane floats on top of the surface of water, absorbs sunlight, and produces vapor for clean water or to produce electricity.

High-entropy alloys made from metals known to form shape-memory alloys can produce shape-memory alloys that work at high temperatures.

Conductive, ecoresorbable inks used in 3D printing to form circuits, inductive antennas, sensors and implantable electronic medical devices.

Precision-synthsized porous graphene is transformed into a semiconductor and the most efficient filter.

Universal adhesive made up of equal amounts of liquid and solid polymers works in both air and underwater.

Scientists have induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic ‘building blocks’ that go on to form stable structures.

A new boron nitride lift-off technique could be used to produce tandem solar cells that combine indium gallium nitride and silicon.

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