The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material ...

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine ...

When you fill up your car at the pump, you probably don’t think much about the tank holding all that fuel. Yet the design and materials used for fuel tanks significantly impact your vehicle’s safety, ...

Sodium-containing transition-metal layered oxides are promising electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries, a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries. However, the vast number of possible ...

Two-dimensional materials have recently garnered much interest in the scientific and technology communities. This Review describes how ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenides combine tunable ...

Transition metal dichalcogenides are 2D materials with tunable bandgaps, strong excitonic effects, and roles in electronics and quantum technologies.

National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. "Extending the life of a lithium metal anode using a protective layer made of an extremely tough gel electrolyte." ScienceDaily.

When metal ions migrate so quickly across metal surfaces, it means that it is advisable to intersperse the active material with a metallic motorway network for ion transport. This is exactly what ...

Investigating the interplay between the structure of water molecules that have been incorporated into layered materials such as clays and the configuration of ions in such materials has long ...

Researchers from KAIST have recently developed a new Metal-graphene Composite Material that has proven to be hundreds of times stronger than pure metals.

Batteries are becoming more powerful and cost-efficient thanks to the accelerated transport of lithium ions through metal fleeces. A team led by Joachim Spatz at the Max Planck Institute for Medical ...