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in New Material, TechA Magical Combination – Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials
Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? The majority of people would find this decision straightforward.
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in New Material, Tech
Powering the Future: China’s Superionic Hydride Ion Conductor Breakthrough
Chinese scientists have created the first ambient-temperature superionic hydride ion conductor, enabling advancements in clean energy storage and electrochemical conversion technologies.
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Toward controlling contact polarity and contact resistance in 2D-material devices
National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists found that contacts made of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten diselenide (WSe2) on gold metal are both p-type, while the same contacts with chalcogen vacancy defects become n-type.
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in New Material, Tech
A New Card up Graphene’s Sleeve
Graphene is found to exhibit a magnetoresistance dwarfing that of all known materials at room temperature—a behavior that may lead to new magnetic sensors and help decipher the physics of strange metals.
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in New Material, Tech‘Superionic conduction’ could improve batteries
“Materials that exhibit superionic conduction in ambient conditions would provide huge opportunities for new batteries, fuel cells and electrochemical cells”, said Chen Ping, a professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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in New Material, Tech
Researchers develop novel graphene/silicon catalyst for highly selective photoelectroreduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol
A research team led by Profs. CHEN Wei and WEI Wei from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed novel graphene/silicon carbide (SiC) catalysts for efficient CO2 photoelectroreduction to ethanol (C2H5OH).
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in New Material, Tech
“Counterportation” – Landmark Quantum Breakthrough Paves Way for World-First Experimental Wormhole
An innovative method overcomes significant hurdle in scaling quantum prototypes.
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Oxygen groups key to unlocking graphene’s antimicrobial potential
An international group of scientists from the UK, Cyprus, Austria, Finland, The Netherlands and China reveal that it is graphene oxide’s different interaction modes that lead to distinct antibacterial activity
