Evil armies of internet-connected EV chargers, ovens, hot-water heaters, air-conditioners, and other high-wattage appliances could be hijacked to slightly manipulate energy demand, potentially driving price swings and creating financial d...
Aug 4, 2020
Researchers (TU Wien) (Vienna) have developed a nano-structuring method that can be employed to perforate specific layers of a material in a highly precise way, while others are left completely...
Aug 4, 2020
Nobody can shoot a pistol bullet through a banana in such a way that the skin is perforated but the banana remains intact. However, on the level of individual atomic layers, such a feat has now been achieved - a nano-structuring method has been d...
Aug 4, 2020
A team of scientists led by Kenichiro Itami, Professor and Director of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), has developed a new method for the synthesis of three-dimensional nanocarbons with the potential to advance materials...
Aug 4, 2020
As part of a project to develop specific traits in cattle that would make them resistant to heat and diseases in tropical regions, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a phase-imaging technique to determine which...
Aug 4, 2020
A recently published whitepaper gives an overview of the current state of the art in risk assessment of nanomaterials and provides the theoretical basis for the development and implementation of an effective and transparent risk management framewo...
Aug 4, 2020
Part of the great difficulty in tracing the path of plastic pollution through the environment is the processes that break it down into tiny pieces along the way, such as the corrosive forces of ocean currents or ultraviolet light. Recently, scient...
Aug 4, 2020
Demand for integrated energy storage devices is growing rapidly as people rely more and more on portable and wireless electronics, and the global need grows for clean energy sources such as solar and wind energies.
Aug 3, 2020
An efficient in situ pathway to generate and attach oxygen functional groups to graphitic electrodes for supercapacitors by inducing hydrolysis of water molecules within the gel electrolyte.
Aug 3, 2020
Researchers are working on a pathway to improve the performance of supercapacitors, and meet that demand for increased storage capacity.
Aug 3, 2020
