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Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?

Chemistry /

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...





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'One-pot' process can make more-efficient materials for fuel cells and solar cells

Researchers develop 'one-pot' porous surfaces for fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Cornell researchers have developed a "one-pot" process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more-efficient fuel cells and solar cells.


Opening the Door for CO2

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a greenhouse gas, and the danger of climate change has ...


Foam reactor is 10 times more energy efficient

Chemistry /

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

There is considerable worldwide demand for new types of reactors for the rapid and well- controlled production of high value chemicals. Charl Stemmet has developed the porous foam reactor, which has an energy efficiency ten ...


Nanoparticles aid bone growth

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throughout ...


Undersea channels might aid oil recovery

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2006 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are trying to help energy companies draw millions of additional barrels of oil from the sea.


Progress Toward Artificial Tissue?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature.


Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of ...


'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills

'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills

Chemistry /

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called "frozen smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively ...


For clean air

Chemistry /

created Mar 30, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In addition to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air contribute to smog and high ozone levels, as well as potentially damaging human health. Clean-air laws are thus rightly continuing ...


The Growth of a Zeolite

Growing catalysts

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 08, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Porous materials are involved in many chemical reactions that affect our daily lives. Despite their wide use, there is little knowledge about them. Scientists from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the ESRF ...



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