To survive, animals compete for resources, be it food, mating partners or territory. But a ground breaking recent study shows chimpanzees and gorillas form friendships, some lasting at least 20 years. They play, eat and socialize ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2022
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With highly hydrophilic surfaces and superior metal conductivity, two-dimensional transition-metal carbides (MXenes) are highly valuable in the field of electrochemical energy storage. However, the easy stacking inclination ...
Nanophysics
Oct 27, 2022
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Coupling renewable energy to produce hydrogen by the electrolysis of water is an effective way to develop new energy utilization and solve the energy crisis. It is important to fully understand the cathodic hydrogen evolution ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 27, 2022
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Sometimes, in creating an alloy out of multiple metals, defects and structural instability can occur in the material. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are harnessing those imperfections ...
Materials Science
Oct 26, 2022
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Bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts exhibit high activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 20, 2022
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A DGIST research team led by Professor Sangaraju Shanmugam, Department of Energy Engineering, developed a catalyst that converts nitric oxide (NO) to ammonia (NH3). This electrochemical technology offers high Faradaic efficiency ...
Materials Science
Oct 19, 2022
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Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth on Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB)—the most powerful ...
Astronomy
Oct 13, 2022
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As electric vehicles and personal portable electronics become more ubiquitous, researchers are trying to solve some of the major limitations of current lithium-ion battery technology, which uses a graphite anode and a lithium-based ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2022
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The metal-carbon dioxide battery is a promising and environmentally friendly technology, but its energy efficiency is limited. Recently, a research team co-led by chemists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) discovered ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2022
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By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys and from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), an international team of astronomers has made a rare finding—the detection ...
