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New polymer design reduces fire risk in lithium batteries, boosts ion flow
Researchers have identified a key flaw in safer battery materials that limits how efficiently ...
Many important technologies, from handheld phones to medical devices and transportation vehicles, rely on rechargeable ...
New polymer battery design improves ion flow and conductivity, advancing safer solid state energy storage technology.
A new non-flammable electrolyte is emerging, promising safer, more reliable batteries, while nanoscale self-assembly still ...
CORRECTION: This story was updated on June 13, 2014, to correct the structure of the new biobased polymer. Missing methylene groups have been added to the phenylene linking group. By combining ...
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have attracted considerable attention over the past two decades not only because of their potential for generating renewable energy but also because of their favorable ...
Self-assembling materials are the building blocks for bottom-up nanofabrication processes, but many self-assembled nanostructures contain defects and lack sufficient long-range order for certain ...
With blazing speed and seemingly limitless digital memory, the personal computers of the early 1990s rocketed past those that ranked as state-of-the-art just a couple of years earlier. Within a few ...
All matter consists of one or more phases -- regions of space with uniform structure and physical properties. The common phases of H2O (solid, liquid and gas), also known as ice, water and steam, are ...
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