Luminescent Solar Waveguide Windows Generate Energy From Inside and Out
Rice engineers develop polymer cores that redirect light from any source to solar cells. Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy…
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“See Through Soil” to Study Hydrogels’ Hidden Workings Could Help Farmers Deal With Future Droughts
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil…
Sweet Coating for Sour Bones: Bridge-Burning Coating for Bone Implants
Osteoporosis is a leading global health challenge. Besides its own adverse effects, it also impairs the function of bone implants — normally made of a…
Discovery of a New Molecule Advances Route to Chemically Recyclable Plastics
New polybutadiene molecule enchains in squares, a microstructure that enables it to depolymerize under certain conditions, advancing options for closed-loop recycling. As the planet’s burden…
Sustainable Plastics: Scientists Make Versatile Polymer From Sugars in Wood
Scientists from Bath’s Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies have made a sustainable polymer using the second most abundant sugar in nature, xylose. Not only…
Nanodiamond Sensors Created That Can Act As Both Heat Sources and Thermometers
An international team of researchers created nanodiamond sensors that can act as both heat sources and thermometers, and is using them to measure the thermal…
Nanocrystals With Unique Surface Texture That Eradicates Bacteria Biofilm
The COVID-19 pandemic is raising fears of new pathogens such as new viruses or drug-resistant bacteria. To this, a Korean research team has recently drawn…
New State of Matter Discovered by Scientists: Liquid Glass
While glass is a truly ubiquitous material that we use on a daily basis, it also represents a major scientific conundrum. Contrary to what one…
Plastic Pollution Is Everywhere: Research Reveals How It Travels
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous today, with microplastic particles from disposable goods found in natural environments throughout the globe, including Antarctica. But how those particles move…
Mechanophores: Unprecedented Insight Into Polymer Crystal Growth Processes
In modern times, manufacturers produce highly specialized materials for a wide array of uses, called polymers. Polymers have a variety of purposes owing to their…
Green Chemistry Creates Coatings From Nature: Turning Biomass Into High-Quality Coatings
Organic chemists from the University of Groningen and the Dutch multinational company AkzoNobel, a major global producer of paints and coatings, developed a process that…
Scientists Develop an Efficient Way to Produce Low-Cost Heatsinks
NUST MISIS scientists found a way to reduce the cost of industrial and electronics heatsinks production up to 10 times. Consequently, the product itself would…
Engineers Build Chemically Driven Wheels That “Morph” Into Gears to Perform Mechanical Work
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…
Bacterial Strain Uncovered for Producing Bioplastics From Sewage Sludge and Wastewater
Salt-Tolerant Bacteria With an Appetite for Sludge Make Biodegradable Plastics Using a bacterial strain found in mangroves, Texas A&M researchers have uncovered a low-cost, sustainable…
New Blended Solar Cells With Increased Power Efficiencies and Electricity Generation
Researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan have blended together various polymer and molecular semiconductors as photo-absorbers to create a solar cell with increased power efficiencies…
Battling COVID-19: Researchers Discover Materials – Activated With UV Light – That Can Kill Coronavirus and Other Viruses
As the deadly COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc around the world with no end in sight, new ways in which to stop the spread…
Separating Gases Using Flexible Molecular Sieves Made From Metal-Organic Frameworks
Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have made reported some exciting findings relating to metal-organic frameworks…
New Recycling Process Could Cut Down on Millions of Tons of Plastic Waste
Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or…
