A silver-based catalyst material with a porous honeycomb-like structure, developed by the MIT team, can selectively transform carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO).Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT
New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions.
A new catalyst...
The locations of abandoned wells studied in western Pennsylvania. Credit: Princeton University
Abandoned oil and gas wells are a significant source of greenhouse gases but there are so many scattered across the United States that stopping the leaks presents a...
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The value and scale of information grows unstoppably and data centers must size-up if they are to adequately meet their operational requirements.
The widespread use of cloud computing and Big Data comes hand-in-hand with the need for...
Electron micrographs of tiny superparamagnetic crystals of magnetite at different resolutions. The lowest resolution image (a) shows the octahedral crystals. At higher resolution, the 'craters' on the crystal surfaces are clearly visible. The highest resolution image (c) shows some...
UCF scientist Jayan Thomas has made a breakthrough that would essentially turn jackets and other clothing into wearable, solar-powered batteries that never need to be plugged in. It could one day revolutionize wearable technology, helping everyone from soldiers who...
Fariborz Kargar, a graduate student researcher, is measuring the acoustic phonon dispersion in the semiconductor nanowires in UCR's Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center, directed by Alexander Balandin. Credit: UC Riverside
Controlling the flow of heat through semiconductor materials is...
Hadi Ghasemi illustrates how a drop of water rolls off his icephobic surface. Credit: Cullen College of Engineering
Icy conditions can be deadly, whether you're flying into bad weather or too close to power transmission lines during a storm. Researchers...
The research team was able to make the azo-LCN film ascend a 15° incline. Credit: Wie, J. J. et al. Photomotility of polymers. Nat. Commun. 7, 13260 doi: 10.1038/ncomms13260 (2016).
One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, "squishy" robots is...
Cary Pint, right, Andrew Westover and Nitin Muralidharan, who is holding the prototype junkyard battery they created in his left hand. He and Westover are holding bottles of the common household chemicals used in the process. (Daniel Dubois /...
(top) Devices with one-layer and seven-layer MoS2 were built on top of a silicon base and compared. Dielectric constants responsible for the difference in electrostatic potentials are shown in parenthesis. (bottom) The device with one-layer MoS2 (inside the violet...
At just one atom thick, tungsten disulfide allows energy to switch off and on -- important for nano-scale electronic transistors -- but it also absorbs and emits light, which could find applications in optoelectronics, sensing, and flexible electronics. The...
