Batteries from a variety of manufacturers are examined using high-speed X-ray imaging to determine their failure mechanisms during thermal runaway.
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Printing Flexible Graphene Supercapacitors
A new printing method produces flexible graphene microsupercapacitors with a planar architecture, suitable for integration in portable electronic devices.
No Crying Over Spilled Milk: New Plasma Treatment To Keep Milk Fresh
Australian researchers have developed a promising new plasma treatment method to decontaminate and increase the shelf life of milk.
A Bright Future For InGaN Photonic Crystal Light Emitters
Via a bottom-up approach this research shows the production of scalable, stable InGaN nanowire photonic crystals for high efficient LEDs.
Liquid Metals Exploit Electrochemistry to form Soft Circuitry at Low Voltage
Exploiting electrochemistry to gain control over the interactions of liquid metal droplets enables reversible switching for soft circuitry.
Sensing Mercury via Simple Organic Field-Effect-Transistors
Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent and her team are developing high-performance electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors (EGOFETs), electronic devices capable of working in an aqueous environment.
Influenza Antiviral Agent Regulates ROS
Polymeric nanoparticles acting as intracellular ROS regulators show promise as antiviral agents in influenza-infected kidney cells.
Fiber Directed Cell Growth in Injectable Hydrogels
A simple and effective, injectable hydrogel system with tunable fiber orientation for directed cell growth in demonstrated.
Computational Peptide Design Meets Nature
A novel, nature template-based computation design method has been proposed, and demonstrates the potential for design of peptides for chemical biology and medicinal chemistry.
Polypeptides as Structural Materials via Chemoenzymatic Synthesis
Polypeptides have a rich variety of structures and functions. Their chemoenzymatic synthesis is reviewed by the Enzyme Research Team at RIKEN, Japan.
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