News by Subject Chemistry & Physics

The research team led by Professor Soojin Park developed a three-dimensional monolithic organic battery electrode.

Chemical engineers at EPFL have designed a material that can capture carbon dioxide from wet flue gasses better than current commercial materials. The work is published in Nature.

Adding atom-scale defects to battery materials may help them charge faster, theoretical models by Rice University scientists show.

Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes.

Laboratory experiments and a parabolic flight campaign have enabled an international team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to gain new insights into water electrolysis, in which hydrogen is obtained from water by applying electric energy. Water electrolysis could play a key role in the energy transition if efficiency improvements can be achieved. The findings published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters offer a possible starting point for enhancing the environmental impact of hydrogen-based technologies.

Microplastics suspended in water can be gathered using acoustic forces in microchannels. The bulk acoustic wave (BAW) device can be customized to gather microplastic fibers and particles of different sizes. When run in series and parallels, the device can successfully concentrate free floating microplastics in large amounts of water into very manageable quantities. This is a promising new technique to clean our laundry grey water before they are released into the environment.

The researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University and Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied the distribution of hydrogen in metals in the process of standard testing for hydrogen cracking. They found that there is a surface effect that does not let hydrogen enter the metal. This can result in errors in industrial quality control of material, and to fundamental errors in terms of scientific research of hydrogen embrittlement.