metal oxides
Welding glass to metal, defying Joule’s first law, and other materials stories that may be of interest for March 6, 2019.
Read MoreGraphene cracks glass corrosion, spacecraft nuclear batteries get a boost from new materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 9, 2016.
Read MoreResearchers at North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised a new method for characterizing materials that can more accurately predict crystallographic structures.
Read MoreIs the key to large-scale solar power storage rusting before our eyes? Researchers at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) found that ordinary metal oxides, such as rust, can be made into solar cells capable of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen by day for energy use at night.
Read MoreA new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Minnesota shows that nanoparticles of lithium battery catalyst nickel manganese cobalt oxide may harm important bacteria that reside in the soil and have untold environmental consequences.
Read MoreNatural 2-D superconductors, NIST relieves the stress, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 18, 2015.
Read MoreConcrete skyscrapers ditch the rebar, microscopy probes lithium cathodes, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 4, 2015.
Read MoreMaking molybdenum disulfide, shrimp shell solar cells, Mars’ minerals, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 24, 2015.
Read MoreResearchers from Aarhus University, Lund University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to learn more about how the surface of metal oxides interact with the some 326 million trillion gallons of water floating around our planet.
Read MoreStanford University researchers have discovered a new way to ‘decorate’ nanowires with coatings of metal oxide and noble metal nanoparticles that greatly improve surface area. Credit: Stanford Nanocharacterization Lab. Check ’em…
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