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
Researchers have developed an intelligent flow-based QD synthesis strategy, which utilizes plug-and-play fluidic microreactors capable of autonomous synthesis and optimization of colloidal QDs across multiple target parameters simultaneously.
Aug 3, 2020
Nobody can shoot a 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, researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have now achieved such a feat—they developed a n...
Aug 3, 2020
Solid acids are amongst the most essential heterogeneous catalysts, which have the potential to replace environmentally harmful liquid acids, in some of the most important processes, such as hydrocarbon cracking, alkylation, as well as plastic wa...
Aug 3, 2020
Scientists have developed a handy graphene oxid based sensor platform to detect acute infections such as sepsis or the antibodies against the coronavirus within minutes.
Aug 3, 2020
Supported bimetallic catalysts are an important class of catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis. They can be applied in various fields, such as electrocatalysis, biomass conversion, and hydrogen...
Aug 3, 2020
