Search results for electrodeposition

Analytical Chemistry Mar 23, 2020

Novel strategy to fabricate single-atom catalysts via electrochemical deposition

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reported a strategy to fabricate single-atom catalysts (SACs). They synthesized more than thirty different ...

Nanomaterials Jan 29, 2020

Hybrid technique to produce stronger nickel for auto, medical, manufacturing

Nickel is a widely used metal in the manufacturing industry for both industrial and advanced material processes. Now, Purdue University innovators have created a hybrid technique to fabricate a new form of nickel that may ...

Materials Science Nov 6, 2019

Electrodeposited surfaces with reversibly switching interfacial properties

Materials engineering technologies aim to control wettability and liquid repellence of material surfaces for diverse applications in and beyond the field of materials science. In a recent report on Science Advances, Yue Liu ...

Condensed Matter Apr 12, 2019

Researchers discover an economical way to produce high-performance thin films for electronics

Researchers at Missouri S&T have found an unprecedented, economical method for creating high-performance inorganic thin films, or "epitaxial" films, used in the manufacture of semiconductors for flexible electronics, LEDs ...

Nanophysics Jan 23, 2019

Expanding the capacity of hydrogen engines and solar cells with mesoporous nickel

Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), together with Russian and foreign colleagues, developed samples of nickel mesoporous film structures, which have a useful surface area up to 400 time greater than their ...

Condensed Matter Jul 30, 2018

Material scientists use stimulated Raman scattering microscopy to observe ions moving in liquid electrolyte

Lithium metal batteries hold tremendous promise for next-generation energy storage because the lithium metal negative electrode has 10 times more theoretical specific capacity than the graphite electrode used in commercial ...

Nanophysics Jul 25, 2018

Researchers use nanotechnology to improve the accuracy of measuring devices

Scientists from National Research University Higher School of Economics and collaborators have synthesized multi-layered nanowires in order to study their magnetoresistance properties. Improving this effect will allow scientists ...

Robotics Jun 5, 2018

Team invents world's first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by both light and electricity

Over the past 30 years, researchers have studied actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under various stimuli in order to develop micro- and biomimetic robots, artificial muscles and medical devices.

Materials Science Oct 17, 2017

Electroplating: The birth of a single nucleus caught in camera

Electroplating, or electrodeposition, is one of the most important processes in chemistry, in which a metal cation in solution can be reduced to its elemental form by applying an electrical potential to an electrode.

Materials Science Aug 24, 2017

Researchers report better way to create organic bioelectronics

With increasing scientific and medical interest in communication with the nervous system, demand is growing for biomedical devices that can better record and stimulate the nervous system, as well as deliver drugs and biomolecules ...

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