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“#Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions” Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon emissions. Results published in Chem demonstrate a fabrication method for membrane materials that…
“#Just add nano-materials for stronger, tougher diving fins” Underwater equipment specialist Alchemy teamed up with Adamant Composites to apply nano-materials to produce stronger, tougher composite material for diving fins. Credit: Alchemy Adding microscopic nano-materials to carbon fibre composites has resulted in stronger, tougher fins for divers. A space material company teamed up with a market…
“#Researchers fabricate polyacrylonitrile-derived carbon films and fibers at high temperature” Carbon thin films arrange differently depending on the treatment temperature. Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Superman can squeeze a lump of coal and turn it into a sparkling diamond—in comic books, anyway. There is some scientific validity to this fictional feat. Coal and diamonds are both…
“#Crystal wars: Research may lead to more efficient crystal engineering methods” Researchers at The University of Tokyo and Fudan University use confocal microscopy to observe polymorphic crystallization in unprecedented detail. Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and Fudan University has studied the process…
“#Elucidating how asymmetry confers chemical properties” Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’ve heard the expression ‘form follows function’? In materials science, function follows form. New research by Carnegie’s Olivier Gagné and collaborator Frank Hawthorne of the University of Manitoba categorizes the causes of structural asymmetry, some surprising, which underpin useful properties of crystals, including ferroelectricity, photoluminescence,…
“#New plastic biomaterials could lead to tougher, more versatile medical implants” Credit: University of Birmingham A new thermoplastic biomaterial, which is tough and strong but also easy to process and shape has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. A type of nylon, the material’s shape memory properties enable it to be stretched…
“#Hydrated eutectic electrolytes help improve performance of aqueous zinc batteries” Schematic diagrams of Zn2 solvation structure and interfacial reactions in (a) traditional aqueous electrolyte and (b) hydrated eutectic electrolyte. Credit: Zhao Jingwen and Yang Wuhai Zinc (Zn) batteries have attracted increasing attention due to their large volumetric capacity, their Earth-abundance, and environmental friendliness. Zn batteries…
“#Materials scientists drill down to vulnerabilities involved in human tooth decay” < div> The “world’s tiniest sandwich.” An atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy image of an enamel crystallite looking down the long axis of the crystal. The dark areas show magnesium ions forming two layers on either side of the core. Credit: Northwestern University…
“#Programming van der Waals interactions with complex symmetries into microparticles using liquid crystallinity” Bipolar LC microparticles, experiments, and theoretical predictions. Representative (A) bright-field and (B) polarized light micrographs (double-headed arrows show orientations of polarizers) of a polymerized bipolar LC microparticle. (C) Illustration of the internal ordering of the microparticle in (A) and (B). (D) Fluorescence…
“#Shrimp shells to produce electrodes for large storage batteries” The proposal of the Spanish researchers is to produce vanadium flow battery electrodes from chitin, a material from shrimp shells. Credit: John Cameron / Unsplash A project by Spanish researchers and other collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests the use of chitin from shrimp shells…