Researchers show advance in next-generation lithium metal batteries

A Washington State University research team has developed a way to address a major safety issue with lithium metal batteries—an innovation that could make high-energy batteries more viable for next-generation energy storage. Professor Min-Kyu Song and graduate student Panpan Dong test a prototype of a lithium metal battery. Credit: WSU The researchers used a formulation for their batteries that led to the formation of a unique, protective layer around their lithium anode, protecting the ba...
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Scientists develop safer lead-based perovskite solar cell

  Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, are reporting on February 19, 2020 in the journal Nature on a potential breakthrough in the development of hybrid perovskite solar cells. Considered rising stars in the field of solar energy, perovskite solar cells convert light into electricity. They're potentially cheaper and simpler to produce than traditional silicon-based solar cells...
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How Europe’s Most Innovative University Creates Spin-offs

When it comes to creating spin-offs, one university stands out: KU Leuven, Europe’s most innovative university for four years running. This Belgian powerhouse boasts 135 spin-off companies, including ArtiQ, an artificial intelligence based software company that supports doctors in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow up of respiratory illnesses. ArtiQ was co founded by Wim Janssens, a respiratory physician and Associate Professor at KU Leuven, and Marko Topalovic, Janssens’s former PhD student...
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Nobel Prize: 97-year-old chemist John Goodenough becomes oldest-ever winner

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. The trio of scientists won for their work on developing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from smartphones to pacemakers. At 97-years-old, Professor Goodenough from the US is the oldest-ever Nobel laureate. The announcement was made at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday morning, with the winners awarded a share of the nine milli...
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The Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize

  The Dirks Prize recognizes exceptional early-career achievement by a researcher working in any area of molecular programming, whether theory, experiment, computation, or a combination thereof. The winner will receive a cash prize and be invited by ISNSCE to present a Prize Lecture at FNANO. Eligibility: To be eligible, a candidate must not yet have accepted a tenure-track position at the time of nomination (for example, a candidate would typically be a graduate student or a pos...
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2019 Annual Nanotechnology Conference

  The “International Functional Nanomaterials and Nanodevices Conference 2019” was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 11-th to 13-th September 2019. It managed to gather prominent participants working in the field of nanomaterials. The conference covered fields like energy conversion and storage, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, catalysis for clean energy and chemical production, and nanobiotechnologies. Nanomat2019 was attended by both scientists and industry and p...
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International Conference on Chemical Physics and Materials Science

    The “International Conference on Chemical Physics and Materials Science”  (ICCPMS2019) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 8-th to 10-th July 2019. It managed to gather prominent participants working in the field of materials science. The research in the field of materials science has an exponential growth throughout the globe and the potential of its manifestation has been observed by ICCPMS2019. The ENNA team was thankful to all authors who trusted us with their work! The...
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Founder of geometric analysis honored with Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced that Karen Uhlenbeck has won the 2019 Abel Prize, a Nobel-level honor in math. Uhlenbeck won for her foundational work in geometric analysis, which combines the technical power of analysis—a branch of math that extends and generalizes calculus—with the more conceptual areas of geometry and topology. She is the first woman to receive the prize since the award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $700,000) was first given i...
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Nanocrystal ‘factory’ could revolutionize quantum dot manufacturing

  North Carolina State University researchers have developed a microfluidic system for synthesizing perovskite quantum dots across the entire spectrum of visible light. The system drastically reduces manufacturing costs, can be tuned on demand to any colour and allows for real-time process monitoring to ensure quality control. Over the last two decades, colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, known as quantum dots (QDs), have emerged as novel materials for applications ranging from biologic...
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A conversation with Steven Chu

“I hope everyone thinks about what is happening in the world around them.”   Steven Chu was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on lasers but today spends much of his time working on new solutions to tackle climate change. Ahead of the 2018 Nobel Week Dialogue on the topic ‘Water matters’ we spoke to Steven about his love of science and how our changing climate is shaping the water on our earth. What do you most enjoy about science? “What I enjoy about it is you’re t...
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