Everyday life requires polymeric materials. Scientists have focused on polymers made of rigid aromatic frameworks since they exhibit distinctive electronic/optical characteristics, heat resistance, and mechanical benefits.
The selective extraction of particular gas molecules from gaseous mixtures is a challenging chemical problem with significant environmental and economic benefits for success.
An effective method for turning waste plastic into useful chemicals is photothermal catalysis, which is powered by clean solar energy.
Due to its advantages of excellent performance, cheap cost, and easy production of large-scale flexible devices, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising in the photovoltaic industry.
Bringing protons up to speed with strong laser pulses – this still young concept promises many advantages over conventional accelerators. For instance, it seems possible to build much more compact facilities.
Polystyrene, the main material in plastic tableware and insulating materials, is a widely used polymer but is currently difficult to recycle.
When considering ways to sustainably generate environmentally friendly products, bacteria might not immediately spring to mind.
Recent research guided by Prof. Xianhui Chen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ (CAS) University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Prof. Jian Sun of Nanjing University achieved a new high superconducting transition temperature of 36 K in elemental materials under high pressure. The findings were published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
High-entropy alloys (HEAs), which were first developed in 2004, are alloys made up of several primary elements in almost equiatomic proportions.
The behavior of water molecules in proton-conducting materials is critical for understanding and exploiting their features.