Metals and alloys news, September 2021

The 31st ICDCM 2021 Young Scholar Award Winners Announced

Cell-penetrating nanomaterial disrupts cancer cells

shape-changing nanomaterial kills non-small cell lung cancer cells and improves the efficacy of anticancer drug cisplatin

Researchers unexpectedly discover 2D superionic conductor

While searching for novel superconductors, researchers unexpectedly discovered a 2D material with an unusually high ionic conductivity.

Researchers go back to the future with chromium oxides

Using ultrafast laser pulses, researchers were able to observe subtle transitions between the insulating and conducting properties of chromium oxides.

Metals come together to convert carbon dioxide to ethanol

When cesium, copper and zinc oxide are brought together in a certain configuration they can catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to ethanol.

Applied Materials Today Welcomes New Editor

Applied Materials Today Welcomes New Editor

Electrons flow like water in novel superconductor

A strong interaction between electrons and phonons in a novel superconductor causes the electrons to flow like water in a pipe.

Nanomaterials self-assemble to monitor chemical reactions

By combining quantum dots and gold nanoparticles with molecular glue, researchers have created a tiny camera for observing chemical reactions.

Electrons caught behaving unexpectedly in iron-based superconductor

Using a novel microscopy technique, researchers have discovered an unexpected arrangement of electrons in an iron-based superconductor.

Commercial silica nanocages make noble effort to trap gases

Researchers have discovered how to get cheap commercial silica nanocages to trap noble gases like argon, krypton and xenon.

New material generates electricity from movement even when wet

By encasing a liquid metal alloy in a hydrogel, researchers have produced a material that can convert movement into electricity when dry or wet.

Silver terraces play host to 'impossible' double-layer borophene

By utilizing silver terraces as a substrate, engineers have, for the first time, managed to create a double layer of atomically flat borophene.

Webinar Alert: Going Beyond the Fundamentals of Journal Publishing – Advanced Scientific Writing: How to Construct and Write a Research Paper

14 September 2021 at 9:00 AM Singapore time.

Materials Today ‘Materials in Society’ Lecture 2021 - Paula E. Colavita

"Carbon-based materials for electrocatalysis: tailored functionalities towards activity and selectivity"

New model catalyzes prediction of electronic structures

Researchers have developed a model for predicting how the compositions of catalytic metal alloys and oxides affect their electronic structures.