A new hybrid catalyst technology with reduced platinum content delivers lower system costs and improved ORR activity, stability, and fuel cell performance.
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2015 Small Young Innovator Awards: winners announced!
Xiaodong Chen and Yi Cui will receive the 2015 Small Young Innovator Awards in Bejing on the 3rd of September 2015.
Combing Carbon Nanotube Films for Strong and Conductive Buckypapers
Prof. Zhu and his co-workers from North Carolina State University have used a traditional method to advance CNT thin film production.
Shape Control of Metallic Nanoparticles: Au–Ni–ZnO Nanoflowers
Metallic and semiconductor elements combined to create these lovely flower-like nanoparticles by researchers collaborating across China and Australia.
Exploiting surface tension for patterned cell co-cultures
A simple method for 3D patterning of cell co-cultures has been developed based on capillary forces in a nanostructured microchannel.
DNA-based Boolean logic
Danish researchers have successfully constructed a universal DNA based Boolean logic gate system.
Graphene tubes in electrocatalysis
A group of researchers have developed a new hybrid catalyst technology to reduce oxygen at fuel cell cathodes.
Data tattoos: integrating electronics onto human skin
Unusual materials and design strategies enable NFC technology to be embedded into electronic systems that are ultrathin, soft and stretchable, like skin.
Enhancing photocatalysis with strontium titanate
Densely aligned SrTiO3-modified rutile TiO2 heterojunction photocatalysts have been crafted by a Chinese/American collaboration.
Are single-walled carbon nanotubes derived from a zigzag graphene ribbon?
Researchers report that SWCNTs are tubular graphene in a unique armchair configuration, resulting from the growth of a zigzag graphene ribbon.
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