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New coating is self-defence for seeds
13-Dec-2013
Scientists in Switzerland have developed a protective coating for seeds that poisons pests with cyanide when they bite into it. The coating is a system of two layers and only becomes toxic when the layers are mixed, eliminating the problem of environmental contamination that is associated with ...
Using bacteria to make electrodes
05-Dec-2013
Scientists in France have produced hematite using a bacterial pathway for use as an electrode material in Li-ion technologies. Currently, most commercial electrode materials for Li-ion technologies are prepared using the ceramic method, which requires long heating periods at high temperatures ...
Marine plant replacement for platinum in solar cells
05-Dec-2013
An international research team has shown that that the power conversion efficiency of sea tangle extract is comparable to platinum in solar cell electrodes. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are quickly becoming a widespread and affordable alternative to photovoltaic solar cells. The electrode ...
A jelly-based fuel cell
05-Dec-2013
An international team of researchers has used gelatin as their starting material to make a fuel cell catalyst. The team used gelatin to make doped-carbon electrocatalysts that could be a potential replacement for platinum in fuel cells. To make the catalyst, they mixed iron and magnesium into ...
Moving the MRI goalposts
28-Nov-2013
Scientists in the UK have developed a new class of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) agents that promise to deliver clearer images more quickly. Chemical shifts from proton NMR normally fall between 0-12ppm, but water and fat resonate at 4.7 and 1.3ppm respectively, causing noise that can overlap ...
Making hydrogen a metal mimic
28-Nov-2013
Scientists have tricked hydrogen into structurally behaving like a metal for the first time, and proven elemental equivalence. With a single ‘s’ electron, hydrogen is chemically analogous to the group 1 alkali metals in the periodic table, but it typically exhibits pronounced structural ...
Big data reveals clues for energy technology
28-Nov-2013
The largest quantum chemical investigation to date has revealed chemical structures with promising properties for advanced solar cells. Scientists at Harvard University in the United States performed 150 million theoretical calculations to reveal results that could cut down the time and cost of ...
A better understanding of ‘hole hopping’ in solar cells
28-Nov-2013
A team of scientists from the UK, Spain and Switzerland say a method they have developed for probing electron transfer reactions could help them design more efficient solar cells. The research team, led by Piers Barnes of Imperial College London, has pioneered a technique that measures the ...
Measuring iron on a smartphone
28-Nov-2013
Spanish scientists have developed a way to quantitatively measure the amount of iron in a solution using a smartphone. Traditional techniques for quantifying iron levels require samples to be isolated and tested in the laboratory by trained specialists. This new approach returns a result in just ...
Harvesting solar energy with man-made leaves
06-Nov-2013
Scientists in Japan have developed a two-step artificial photosynthetic process that mimic’s nature’s efficient method for harvesting energy from sunlight by using a system of a large number of artificial leaves, as plants do. The researchers used a large number of light absorbers to relay ...
