Deuterium, the heavy brother of hydrogen, is considered a promising material of the future because of its wide range of applications—in science, for energy generation, or in the production of pharmaceuticals. However, the ...
Materials Science
Apr 14, 2022
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Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it's doing respiration—using oxygen to generate cellular energy—differently from other organisms such as plants, animals or yeasts. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 31, 2022
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A new catalyst of Cd/TiO2, enabling 81% methanol selectivity at 15.8% CO2 conversion with the CH4 selectivity below 0.7% was discovered. The combination of experimental and computational studies show that the unique electronic ...
Materials Science
Mar 11, 2022
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The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a research team led by Dr. Jeong-Myeong Ha of the Clean Energy Research Center developed a process technology and catalyst for removing hydrogen sulfide, ...
Materials Science
Mar 4, 2022
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A rare spectroscopy technique performed at Swinburne University of Technology directly quantifies the energy required to bind two excitons together, providing for the first time a direct measurement of the biexciton binding ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 2, 2022
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Photocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen is one of the ideal ways to convert solar energy into chemical energy. However, developing efficient photocatalysts with a wide range of visible-light absorption for this ...
Materials Science
Feb 18, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with several universities in Germany has developed a novel way to store energy captured from the sun for use in conversion to hydrogen fuel. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
Hydrogen is considered a vital component of the energy transition: it can be produced from solar or wind power and therefore stores green energy in the form of an environmentally friendly energy carrier, providing energy ...
Polymers
Feb 9, 2022
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Cornell chemists have discovered a class of nonprecious metal derivatives that can catalyze fuel cell reactions about as well as platinum, at a fraction of the cost.
Materials Science
Feb 3, 2022
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With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit—at least for a fraction of a second—a key milestone on the long road toward nearly pollution-free fusion energy.
Plasma Physics
Jan 26, 2022
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