Oct
31
Copper Catalysts Make Carbon Dioxide To Methane Conversion
October 31, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Rice University materials scientists developed copper-based catalysts to help speed up the rate of carbon dioxide-to-methane conversion. Technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere keep improving, but solutions for what to do with the carbon once it’s captured are harder to come by. The lab of Rice University materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and collaborators developed […]
Oct
26
Breakthrough In Designing Perovskite Solar Cells
October 26, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A University of Hong Kong (CityU) team has engineered a unique type of self-assembled monolayer, or SAM for short, and anchored it on a nickel oxide surface as a charge extraction layer for building perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells are a promising frontier in the solar energy landscape, known for their impressive power […]
Oct
25
Ionic Materials Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Efficiency
October 25, 2023 | Leave a Comment
A Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology(UNIST) research team has made a groundbreaking advancement in improving the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells, which are gaining significant attention as eco-friendly next-generation energy sources. The study findings were published ahead of their official publication in the online version of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. This work was […]
Oct
24
Newly Invented Lithium Ceramic For Battery Electrolyte
October 24, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A team led by Jennifer L. M. Rupp at MIT, Cambridge, USA, and TU Munich, Germany, has now developed such a new synthetic process to make lithium ceramic rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The team has their research results published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. A lithium ceramic could act as a solid electrolyte in a […]
Oct
19
One Atom Thick Ribbons Improve Batteries Solar Cells Sensors
October 19, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have created one-atom-thick ribbons made of phosphorus alloyed with arsenic that could dramatically improve the efficiency of devices such as batteries, supercapacitors and solar cells. The UCL researchers found they were able to conduct electricity at temperatures above -140° Celsius, while retaining the highly useful properties of the phosphorus-only […]