To reduce the energy requirements of the Haber-Bosch process, which converts nitrogen and hydrogen to ammonia, researchers from Tokyo Tech have developed a metal nitride catalyst containing an active metal (Ni) on a lanthanum nitride support that ...
Nov 1, 2022
A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Tokyo has created centimeter-scale structures that are composed of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and loaded with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned ...
Nov 1, 2022
As the electric vehicle (EV) industry is advancing, so too are the efforts in the research and development of superior lithium (Li)-ion batteries to power them. Examining and expanding fast charge-discharge technology and prolonged battery life ar...
Nov 1, 2022
Quantum dots are clusters of some 1,000 atoms which act as one large "super-atom." It is possible to accurately design the electronic properties of these dots just by changing their size. However, to create functional devices, a large nu...
Nov 1, 2022
Quantum dots are clusters of some 1,000 atoms which act as one large 'super-atom'. It is possible to accurately design the electronic properties of these dots just by changing their size. A team has succeeded in making a highly conductiv...
Nov 1, 2022
Cancer immunotherapies, for instance, immune checkpoint inhibition therapy, have been garnering attention in the last few years as new approaches for cancer treatment. But immune checkpoint inhibition therapy is only successful in 20%–30% of patie...
Nov 1, 2022
FDA-approved iron oxide nanocrystals (IONs) as negative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents are encountering challenges because of their low relaxation rate and coherent ferromagnetism. Although metal doping has been found as an effic...
Nov 1, 2022
TRANS2DCHEM, or “Transition of 2D chemistry-based supercapacitor electrode material from proof of concept to applications”, is a project that received € 2,485,717 from the EIC to create supercapacitors with increased energy density (above 50 Wh/L,...
Nov 1, 2022
Under the umbrella of the DigiQuant project funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, TOPTICA, ams OSRAM, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (Fraunhofer IIS) will develop diode-based laser technology to advance the...
Nov 1, 2022
Perovskite-on-silicon tandem photovoltaic cells have the potential to outperform standard silicon (Si)-based photovoltaic cells in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE).
Nov 1, 2022
