Innovative materials for high-performance lithium batteries

Thomas Fässler receives the Arfvedson Schlenk Award

16-Jun-2023 - The German Chemical Society (GDCh) awards Professor Dr. Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich, the Arfvedson Schlenk Award, which is endowed with 7,500 euros. The award, sponsored by Albermarle Germany GmbH, honors scientists for outstanding work in the field of lithium chemistry. ...

Boosting solid state chemical reactions

13-Feb-2019 - Adding olefin enables efficient solvent-free cross-coupling reactions, leading to environmentally friendly syntheses of a wide range of organic materials. A cross coupling reaction is typically performed in an organic solvent and leads to the production of a large amount of solvent waste, which ...

Bit data goes anti-skyrmions

05-Sep-2017 - Today’s world, rapidly changing because of “big data”, is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects – magnetic bits – each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Halle and Dresden have discovered a new kind of ...

High-speed march through a layer of graphene

07-Oct-2015 - Electrons hit by strong laser pulses change their location on ultrashort timescales, i.e. within a couple of attoseconds. In cooperation with the Center for Nano-Optics of Georgia State University in Atlanta (USA), scientists at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP), which is run jointly by ...

Rice U. discovery may boost memory technology

Rice University scientists make tantalum oxide practical for high-density devices

12-Aug-2015 - Scientists at Rice University have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors. The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a common insulator in electronics. Applying voltage to a 250-nanometer-thick sandwich of graphene, ...

Almac and University College Cork announce launch of academic/industrial collaboration in the field of solid state chemistry

17-May-2010 - University College Cork and Almac announced the official launch of an academic/industrial collaboration in the field of solid state chemistry. The partnership, which is principally funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, is focussed upon applying innovative new technologies to elucidate 3D ...

NYU receives $7.2 million NSF grant for center to develop new materials

24-Sep-2008 - New York University has received a $7.2 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), where NYU scientists will develop new materials through the exploration and manipulation of molecular particles. This grant ...

Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

20-Feb-2008 - A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of highly inflammable gases such as hydrogen and methane. Europe is aiming to ...