“It seems like the whole world is working on solar cells; trying to make them better, cheaper and safer to cope with the looming global energy drought.” Professor Geoffrey Ozin talks about the current state of solar cell research.
Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite Hybrid Materials
February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
New special issue guest edited by Rick Laine appears in Applied Organometallic Chemistry
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A Soft Touch with Increasing Resistance
February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Researchers integrate energy absorbing metal hollow spheres into a wire-woven bulk Kagome structure. These hybrids show an outstanding energy absorption capability.
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Carbon Nanotubes for Better Li-Ion Cells
February 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
A coating of single-walled carbon nanotubes improves the performance of li-ion cell cathodes: They show longer lifetimes and stable capacities even at very high rates.
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Two-Way Traffic: Counterpropagating Optical Beams
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the simplest processes in nonlinear optics leading to a variety of complex physics phenomena is the mutual interaction of two counterpropagating optical beams in a medium
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Graphene Tracks for Aluminum Trains: Nanomaterials Engineering
February 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Aluminum clusters move along graphene tracks, controlled by applied electric currents, in work by Spanish and Dutch researchers.
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Powering the Planet with Energy Nanomaterials?
February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
How can nanomaterials make a difference in the grand challenge: efficient and green global scale production, storage and use of energy? Professor Geoffrey Ozin from the University of Toronto gives his response to this question.
Advanced Materials: Advancing Technology Through Measurement Science
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Established in 1962, the Polymers Division in the Material Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will soon celebrate its 50th year as a world leader in polymers research.
Graphene’s brothers and sisters
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A set of twelve graphene-like materials is simulated regarding their stability, structural, and electronic properties.
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