Earth-abundant, cheap metals are promising photocatalytic electrode materials in artificial photosynthesis. A team of Chinese scientists now reports that a thin layer of titania beneath hematite nanorods can boost the performance ...
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2017
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When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow, the first thing the doctor will do is take an X-ray, CT scan or MRI to determine if anything has been damaged internally. Researchers at the ...
General Physics
Apr 26, 2017
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Finding an efficient solar water splitting method to mine electron-rich hydrogen for clean power has been thwarted by the poor performance of hematite. But by 're-growing' the mineral's surface, a smoother version of hematite ...
Materials Science
Jun 16, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped from orbit.
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2014
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(Phys.org)—Hydrogen gas that is created using solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has the potential to be a cost-effective fuel source if the efficiency of the catalysts used in the water-splitting process ...
Materials Science
Oct 4, 2012
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Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is considered one of the most promising materials for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting under solar light. However, the drawbacks of lower charge transfer efficiency and slow oxygen evolution ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 5, 2023
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A review published in Reviews of Geophysics, featuring participation by the UCO, contains much of the knowledge generated about the magnetic and color properties of a mineral that can help to decipher the past climate of ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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A research group led by Associate Professor Tachikawa Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from ...
Materials Science
May 7, 2020
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One promising approach to stabilize uranium contamination in soils is to envelop the radioactive uranium into iron-bearing minerals like hematite. But how well does uranium bind with hematite and for how long? Scientists ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2018
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ICN2 researchers led by ICREA Prof. Jordi Arbiol, in collaboration with the IREC and ICIQ, have produced a material for use in photoelectrochemical water splitting that is not only cheaper than existing alternatives, but ...
Materials Science
Oct 13, 2017
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