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Significant extension of zinc battery lifespan

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

The transition to renewable energy requires efficient methods for storing large amounts of electricity. Researchers have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of...

Oct 28, 2024

Nanoscale layer boosts signal strength in fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

While we might picture a biologist as a researcher hunched over a light microscope, carefully scrutinizing a single bacterium, modern scientists have more powerful instruments at their disposal to investigate, at much smaller scales, the internal ...

Oct 28, 2024

A single thin film perfectly absorbs all electromagnetic waves

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The research team of Dr. Byeongjin Park and Dr. Sang Bok Lee from the Composites & Convergence Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed the world's first ultra-thin film composite m...

Oct 28, 2024

Komaki launches electric scooter that is said to use graphene battery

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

It was reported that Indian electric vehicle brand Komaki has introduced the new model of Cat 3.0 NXT that comes with two battery variants, Graphene and LIPO4, and will be available for Rs. 1,19,999 (around USD$1400) and Rs. 1,49,999 (almost USD$1...

Oct 28, 2024

Haydale closes fundraising of $3.9 million

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Haydale has announced that, further to its previous announcement on plans to raise funds, it has successfully completed the Fundraising which is now closed.

Oct 28, 2024

Art and science combine to create graphene-enhanced clay artwork

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Deliarts recently presented an interdisciplinary approach combining materials science, ultrasonication, artistic expression, and curatorial practice to develop graphene-enhanced cerami...

Oct 28, 2024

Haydale announces plans to raise over $4.5 million

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Haydale has announced its intention to conduct a fundraising of up to £3.5 million (over USD$4.5 million) in aggregate, including a Placing of New Ordinary Shares, to raise in aggregate £2.17 million (over USD$2.8 million).

Oct 27, 2024

Graphene oxide and chitosan sponge for ultrafast and precise recovery of gold from electronic waste

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Researchers at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University and Guangdong University of Technology, have developed a sponge-like material made of graphene oxide and chitosan, that can be used to extract ...

Oct 27, 2024

Cracking the code: Researchers unlock a 'new synthetic frontier' for quantum dots

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and also hard at work in practical applications including lasers, quantum QLED televisions and displays, solar cells, medical devices, a...

Oct 26, 2024

Light makes special materials move at ultrafast speeds

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Ferroelectric materials are unusual because they have an electrically positive side and an electrically negative side, and these sides can be switched with an electric field. Relaxor ferroelectrics are special ferroelectric materials with greatly ...

Oct 26, 2024

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