Extremely Low Friction Thanks to New Solid State Lubricant

By combining organic and inorganic chemistry, scientists developed the innovative lubricant - with remarkable capabilities

19-Feb-2025 - Finding the right lubricant for the right purpose is a task that is often extremely important in industry. Not only to reduce friction, overheating and wear, but also to save energy. At TU Wien, the research groups of Prof Carsten Gachot (Tribology, Mechanical Engineering) and Prof Dominik Eder ...

Developing new types of batteries sustainably

16-Jan-2024 - "Conventional lithium-ion batteries are very powerful, but also expensive, as they require metals such as nickel and cobalt in addition to lithium," says chemist Prof Dr Yan Lu. "That's why I'm researching more sustainable alternatives, such as lithium-sulphur batteries and batteries based on ...

A highly porous material, more precious than diamonds

04-Oct-2018 - Porosity is the key to high-performance materials for energy storage systems, environmental technologies or catalysts: The more porous a solid state material is, the more liquids and gases it is able to store. However, a multitude of pores destabilizes the material. In search of the stability ...

A new method for synthesizing a promising magnetic material

24-Jan-2018 - Scientists from Siberian Federal University (SFU) together with their colleagues from the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences and Kirensky Institute of Physics of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences used a new method ...

Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste

14-Mar-2017 - Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to 'fish out' the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste - a breakthrough that could make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective. Elizabeth Wildman, a PhD student in the research group led by ...

Name of four new elements announced

Seventh row in periodic table filled

01-Dec-2016 - The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the name and symbols for four elements: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og), respectively for element 113, 115, 117, and 118. Following a 5-month period of public review, the names earlier ...

Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118

The 7th period of the periodic table of elements is complete

05-Jan-2016 - The fourth IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has reviewed the relevant literature for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 and has determined that the claims for discovery of these elements have been fulfilled, in accordance with the ...

Fluorographene: The World’s Thinnest Insulator

09-Nov-2010 - The remarkable properties of graphene and Teflon have been combined in a new material by the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics. Kostya Novoselov and Andre Geim, working at the University of Manchester, UK, first isolated graphene in 2004. It was a tricky task, as one would expect if ...

Bismuth for Bone Cement: Water-soluble cluster is key to the formation of a hybrid material

01-Nov-2010 - Organic–inorganic hybrid materials, uniting the advantages of their organic and inorganic parts, are used for a wide variety of applications. However, making a homogeneous composite material is only possible if a solvent can be found in which both components are soluble. Materials containing the ...

Cobalt-Controlled Communication

Fine Performance Tuning of an Organometallic Molecular Wire by Added Dicobalt Fragments

08-Sep-2010 - Smaller and smarter: this is the aim of research in the quest for ever faster electronic devices smaller in size but capable of performing more complicated tasks. Devices consisting of the smallest possible components, molecular parts, have emerged as the answer. Molecular wires, the most basic ...