Materials Sciences
Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.
innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.
Click! That's how modern chemistry bonds nanoparticles to a substrate
A small movement of the hand, the characteristic 'click!' – and the snap fastener quickly and securely fastens our clothes. One of the newest methods of…
Drexel University Materials Research Could Unlock Potential of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Lithium-sulfur batteries have recently become one of the hottest topics in the field of energy storage devices due to their high energy density—which is about…
Graphene ‘Gateway’ Discovery Opens Possibilities for Improved Energy Technologies
The work, published in the March 17 issue of Nature Communications, pinpoints unprecedented proton movement through inherent atomic-scale defects, or gaps, in…
A better way of scrubbing CO2
A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today…
Clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water
“Our electrode is the most efficient oxygen-producing electrode in alkaline electrolytes reported to date, to the best of our knowledge,” says Associate…
New magnetic carbon composites for biological and environmental applications
Anaerobic biological processes like biogas production are limited in their performance and usability due to slow microbial growth and inhibition effects by…