Researchers propose conceptual device for solar-powered water sanitation
In a society raised with the luxury of clean water, it's easy to forget that potable drinking water isn't a given everywhere.
In a society raised with the luxury of clean water, it's easy to forget that potable drinking water isn't a given everywhere.
Materials Science
Jan 5, 2016
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Researchers have long known that cerium is the best element to use when splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen—a key technique in creating hydrogen gas for fuel. But why, exactly, cerium is so successful has been far ...
Materials Science
Oct 24, 2017
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Plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. The process starts in a cluster of manganese, calcium and oxygen atoms at the heart of a protein complex called photosystem II, which splits ...
Materials Science
Aug 8, 2014
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Vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells generate no exhaust emissions other than clean water vapor. Unfortunately, producing and distributing large quantities of hydrogen gas is impossible with current infrastructures. Researchers ...
Materials Science
Jul 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New results by scientists at Umeľ University, Sweden, show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2009
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Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute (NGI) have achieved a long-sought-after objective of electrically controlling water flow through membranes, as reported in Nature.
Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2018
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Nanotechnology refers to a broad range of tools, techniques and applications that simply involve particles on the approximate size scale of a few to hundreds of nanometers in diameter. Particles of this size have some unique ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2010
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Researchers have layered different mineral forms of titanium oxide on top of one another to improve perovskite-type solar cell efficiency by one-sixth. The titanium oxide layer was better able to transport electrons from ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 1, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphiphilic molecules, which have one water-friendly (hydrophilic) end and one water-repellant (hydrophobic) end, spontaneously aggregate in aqueous solutions to make superstructures like capsules or bilayers. ...
Polymers
Mar 6, 2009
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From the splendorous red hues in the Grand Canyon to the mundane rust attacking a neglected bicycle, iron hydroxides are all around us. As a matter of fact, they are just as common as quartz, which is the most widely distributed ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2020
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