Solar researchers have investigated whether it is economically viable for a solar thermal power plant to convert excess photovoltaic and wind power into heat and store it.
Computational Materials Design for Future Technologies
Computational materials design is shown to be essential for the discovery of new and novel materials of the future.
Minimally-Invasive Electrodes for Real-Time Transdermal Biosensing
A real-time, in vivo, and minimally-invasive transdermal biosensing system for hydrogen peroxide monitoring is developed.
Energy Efficient Computing via Nanomagnetic Logic Architectures
Scientists demonstrate the feasibility of chirality-encoded logic architectures.
Special Birthday Issue Honoring Professor Hatsuo Ishida
Colleagues and friends dedicate to Professor Hatsuo Ishida a special issue and a special section in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.
Determining Drug Transport across the Placental Barrier
Organ-on-a-chip technology allows for the study of caffeine transport across the placenta to the fetus during pregnancy.
Organic Nanomaterials from Self-Assembled Peptoids
Alessia Battigelli reviews organic materials formed by the self-assembly of peptoids in Biopolymers
Cold Plasma To Clean Up Our Water
A team of Canadian researchers has shown that direct contact between an AP “cold” oxidizing plasma source and water that contains very high concentrations of cyanobacteria and green algae, along with associated BMAA toxin, could be quite rapidly (in minutes) decontaminated with modest energy input.
Storing Energy With Egg Shells
For the first time, a research group successfully uses egg shells as an electrode for energy storage.
Optimizing Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells [Video]
Low-cost strategies to tailor the microstructure of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes are discussed, providing a fast and efficient way to evaluate new electrode materials.