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• How glass learns to illuminate itself and create heat
  

  Glass objects which glow in the dark, glass containers that heat up and cool down, or glass control knobs and switches that eliminate viruses and bacteria by themselves – all this seems to completely contradict our everyday experience of what glass can do. And yet, it is now within reach. To create more

• Can diamonds originate methane?
  

  Turning one of the world's finest gems - diamonds – into one of the worst greenhouse gases – methane - does not seem a great idea. Yet this happened through the work of a group of researchers from the Universities of Bologna and Edinburgh (UK), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Franc more

• Why batteries can’t charge in minutes
  

  Researchers find new issue complicating fast charging. Haste makes waste, as the saying goes. Such a maxim may be especially true of batteries, thanks to a new study that seeks to identify the reasons that cause the performance of fast charged lithium-ion batteries to degrade in electric vehicles. I more

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Graphene

You may not have been aware, but this week is Graphene Week 2015, which marks a yearly week-long conference at the University of Manchester based around the emerging science and technological applications of graphene. This seemed as good a time as any to take a look at graphene: what it is, why some more

Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Catch Fire

In this month’s Periodic Graphics in C&EN, we’re looking at the chemistry behind the recent news stories of lithium-ion batteries in some devices catching fire. You can see the full graphic over on the C&EN site. Also, for more lithium battery chemistry, head over to the recent RealTimeChem Week gra more

Developing Advanced Lithium Ion Batteries

Today’s graphic takes a look at the research of Kent Griffith (@kentjgriffith), a PhD student from the University of Cambridge who’s currently looking into developing advanced lithium ion batteries to power our phones, laptops, and more. more

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• Direct visualization of diffuse unoccupied molecular orbitals at a rubrene/graphite interface

  Spectroscopic and nanoscale imaging investigations concerning the spatial extent of molecular orbitals at organic/substrate interfaces have been of intense interest to understand charge dynamics. Here, the spatial extent of unoccupied molecular orbitals of ultrathin rubrene [5,6,11,12-tetraphenyltet more

• Nickel nanowires-based composite material applied to the highly enhanced non-enzymatic electro-oxidation of ethanol

  Publication date: November 2018 Source:Microchemical Journal, Volume 142 Author(s): Cecilia S. Tettamanti, María L. Ramírez, Fabiana A. Gutierrez, Paula G. Bercoff, Gustavo A. Rivas, Marcela C. Rodríguez In this work, we report the building of a nanostructured platform with activit more

• Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1119: High-Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with High Active Nitrogen Fluxes

  Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1119: High-Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with High Active Nitrogen Fluxes Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071119 Authors: Tin S. Cheng Alex Summerfield Christopher J. Mellor Andrei N. Khlobystov Laurence Eaves C. Thomas Foxon more