Advanced magnesium-based hydrogen storage materials and their applications

17-Aug-2023 - As an energy carrier, hydrogen holds the prominent advantages of high gravimetric energy density, high abundance,and zeroemission, yet its effective storage and transportation remain a bottleneckproblem for the widespread applications of hydrogen energy. To address such an issue, different ...

Symbiotic CO₂ Sequestration

Bioengineered microbial community working together to store carbon

14-Dec-2022 - Photosynthesis is a valuable natural system for sequestering carbon dioxide. However, simply forming biomass does not fully exploit this system. A Chinese team of researchers, whose study is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, has now genetically engineered a microbial community which ...

Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patterns

A model for future biomedical and environmental applications

28-Apr-2022 - Collective behavior and swarm patterns are found everywhere in nature. Robots can also be programmed to act in swarms. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed collectives of microrobots which can ...

Cicada wings inspire antireflective surfaces

13-Oct-2016 - A team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers has used the shape of cicada wings as a template to create antireflective structures fabricated with one of the most intriguing semiconductor materials, titanium dioxide (TiO2). The antireflective structures they produced are capable of ...

First comprehensive test to detect genetic modification in food

17-Jan-2014 - As the abundance of genetically modified (GM) foods continues to grow, so does the demand for monitoring and labeling them. The genes of GM plants used for food are tweaked to make them more healthful or pest-resistant, but some consumers are wary of such changes. To help inform shoppers and ...

Butterfly wings' 'art of blackness' could boost production of green fuels

29-Mar-2012 - Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green fuel of the future — from water and sunlight. The researchers presented their findings at the American ...

Full steam ahead for paddlewheels

13-May-2009 - Non-interconvertible, conformational isomers in a paddlewheel dimetallic framework have been synthesised by scientists in the US and China. Conformational isomers are molecules with the same atomic constitution and configurations, but they differ by their arrangement in space. The atoms in ...