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Battery Grade Lithium Carbonate Produced From Central Italy Brine

Watercycle Technologies Ltd (‘Watercycle’ or ‘WT’), a UK-based climate tech company specializing in critical minerals recovery, has successfully extracted lithium to produce battery-grade lithium ...

From Watercycle Technologies Ltd 25 Apr 2024

Lightweight, Flexible Battery Paves the Way for Advanced Wearables

In a recent study published in Advanced Energy Materials, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a fiber-like electrode material using modified carbon nanotube fibers, offering high energy storage capacity and improved mechanical strength and conductivity.

22 Apr 2024

Molecular Hydrogen Generation Using Cheap Nanorod Electrodes

Dr Iulian Gherasoiu, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering technology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), and colleagues have uncovered the characteristics of inexpensive MoVN/MoNi4-MoO2 nanorods that are made by a simple, two-step hydrothermal process in a study that was published in the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.

22 Apr 2024

Custom Nanoparticles That Can Transport Drugs to the Heart

With a $2.07 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, Jianjun Guan, a materials scientist at Washington University in St. Louis’ McKelvey School of Engineering, and his team intend to encase a peptide that prevents fibrosis and a set of proteins that reduce inflammation inside deceptively disguised drug-delivering smart nanoparticles.

18 Apr 2024

Nanocellulose Is Increasingly Safe for Our Seas, According to Findings From a Study Conducted on Mussels

Cellulose nanofibres represent a promising resource for multiple industrial sectors, but what is their impact on the marine environment? A study published in the prestigious journal Environmental Science Nano of the Royal Society of Chemistry recently addressed this issue in a study on marine organisms considered sentinels of sea health: mussels.

18 Apr 2024

Novel Approach to Produce Multi-Color Phosphorescent Carbon Dots

A new technique for creating carbonized polymer nanodots that can emit multicolored, ultra-long Room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) from blue to green has recently been developed.

17 Apr 2024

Rechargeable Afterglow Nanotorches for in-vivo Tracking of Cell-Based Microrobots

An afterglow luminescent nanoprobe expands the potential for imaging live cells. According to a study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, their novel “nanotorch” could light up for more than 10 days following a single excitation.

16 Apr 2024

Waterproof E-Glove Enables Effective Underwater Communication for Divers

Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have constructed a waterproof "e-glove" that wirelessly transmits hand gestures made underwater to a computer that translates them into messages.

15 Apr 2024

Engineered 3D Hydrogel Addresses Microplastic Contamination in Water

Microplastics pose a great threat to human health. These tiny pieces of plastic can enter our bodies through the water we drink and increase our risk of illnesses.

15 Apr 2024

Advancing Quantum Technologies with Magnetic “Butterfly”

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created a novel design idea for next-generation carbon-based quantum materials in the form of a small magnetic nanographene with a distinct butterfly-shape that houses strongly correlated spins.

15 Apr 2024