Materials

The all-solid-state battery is a secondary battery with a stable electrolyte between the anode and cathode. It's thought of a consultant of next-generation battery expertise resulting from its excessive vitality density and considerably decrease threat of fireside and explosion than typical lithium-ion batteries. Lately, supplies analysis within the discipline of all-solid-state batteries has been centered on methods to...

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Tokyo Tech and Keio College scientists present a brand new technique to handle singlet fission (SF) by making use of hydrostatic stress as an exterior stimulus. This can be a technique during which two electrons are produced from a single photon, in chromophores, which paves the best way to creating SF-based supplies with improved (picture) vitality conversion. Their technique...

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A big quantity of plastic waste is incinerated or disposed of in landfills. This harms the surroundings and wastes very important assets.  Picture Credit score: Shinshu College Japanese scientists just lately proposed a “closed-loop” recycling course of based mostly on polymer microparticles. It creates utterly recyclable polymer movies with excessive mechanical stability and fracture vitality that retain their...

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At SMTconnect in Nuremberg, Germany, the professional for industrial adhesives, Panacol, presents the progressive "Black&Mild" -technology, which permits black epoxy adhesives to be totally polymerized with out resorting to secondary curing mechanisms. The proper match: UV-LED curing programs by Dr. Hönle AG.   Black "Black&Mild" adhesive is cured on a printed circuit board with UV irradiation. Picture Credit score: Panacol/Hönle...

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For the primary time, physicists from the Delft College of Expertise have developed a brand new expertise on a microchip by integrating two Nobel Prize-winning approaches. This microchip has the potential to quantify distances in supplies at excessive precision, akin to for medical imaging or underwater. Artists’ impression of the trampoline-shaped sensor. The laser beam that passes by means...

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