“Cradle to grave” study of advanced Li-ion batteries recently completed by Abt Associates for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Tiny Tubes: Hydrogen Storage Inside Single-Walled Nanotubes
Researchers develop high-pressure hydrogen storage using nanocontainers made of single-walled carbon nanotubes with ice valves sealing the ends.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for April 2013
The most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in April.
May highlights from physica status solidi
Ferroelectricity, Photoconductivity, and auxetic foams – these and more in May’s physics highlights.

Greener process for steel production developed at MIT
Molten oxide electrolysis – intended to make oxygen in abundance from lunar soil – produces steel as a by-product.

Startups in materials science: interview with Ben Wang
We chat to Ben Wang, founder of Svaya Nanotechnologies, about turning research into companies and the differences between Silicon Valley and academia.

Flexible electrodes for flexible electronics
Chinese researchers develop a new process to make flexible electrodes for lithium ion batteries quickly and easily.

Generating UV from a light-speed mirror
Researchers succeed in generating flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation via the reflection from a mirror that moves close to the speed of light.

Material design approach improves solar cell efficiency
Development method allows researchers to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum.

Nanowires on graphene uncover new epitaxy paradigm
Discovery comes as researchers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene.