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Paint it blacker: Carbon nanotube coating could make cars ultra-black
11+ hour, 58+ min ago (59+ words) A new ultra-black automotive coating absorbs 99. 9% of visible light, creating a deeper black finish that could be used on future luxury cars. Paint it blacker: Carbon nanotube coating could make cars ultra-black A new ultra-black automotive coating absorbs 99. 9% of visible…...
Nanostructured electrolyte additives enable ultralong-life aqueous batteries
1+ week, 1+ day ago (37+ words) Nanowerk Nanostructured electrolyte additives enable ultralong-life aqueous batteries Self-assembled nanostructures in the electrolyte control ion flow - achieving world-record performance in both cycle life and capacity simultaneously....
Nanoporous Si O2 coatings raise ultraviolet laser damage resistance
1+ week, 3+ day ago (100+ words) Nanowerk Nanoporous Si O2 coatings raise ultraviolet laser damage resistance Researchers made nanoporous Si O2 coatings for ultraviolet laser optics, achieving uniform large area films and higher damage resistance. - The team made porous Si O2 by chemically removing Al2 O3 from an Al2 O3 Si O2 mixture coating....
An ultra-stretchable anti-freezing hydrogel electrolyte based on liquid metal
2+ week, 2+ day ago (42+ words) Nanowerk An ultra-stretchable anti-freezing hydrogel electrolyte based on liquid metal The device retains 98% of its performance even after 45, 000 charge'discharge cycles, demonstrating excellent long-term stability....
Scalable manufacturing of perovskite photovoltaics
4+ week, 2+ day ago (42+ words) Nanowerk High-throughput process produces uniform layers on textured silicon cells. Fast, solvent-free vacuum process for tandem solar cells with efficiencies of up to 24. 3 percent. CSS Process Accelerates Coating Material Composition Tunes the Band Gap...
Novel 2 D membrane overcomes swelling for efficient salt-lake lithium extraction
4+ week, 2+ day ago (46+ words) Nanowerk Novel 2 D membrane overcomes swelling for efficient salt-lake lithium extraction A deep dehydration strategy creates swelling-proof 2 D membranes with ultra-narrow channels that selectively extract high-purity lithium from salt-lake brine....
New process enables fabrication of transistors from perovskite
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (42+ words) Nanowerk New process enables fabrication of transistors from perovskite A new approach controls low-cost solution processing of perovskites, improving the order of their thin layers for use in solar cells, LEDs and transistors....
Nanoarchitectonics rebuilds spent battery cathodes with fluorine from PFAS forever chemicals
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (91+ words) Nanowerk Nanoarchitectonics rebuilds spent battery cathodes with fluorine from PFAS forever chemicals Nanoarchitectonics uses fluorine from PFAS to rebuild spent lithium-iron phosphate cathodes into high-capacity composite electrodes. - Gao-Feng Han (Jilin University), 0000-0001-5943-0492 corresponding author Become a Spotlight guest author! Join our…...
3 D Printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (37+ words) Nanowerk 3 D Printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries Researchers are investigating how 3 D printers could achieve unprecedented levels of precision when creating batteries, opening the door for new innovations....
Light management strategies for higher efficiency all perovskite tandem solar cells
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (76+ words) Nanowerk Light management strategies for higher efficiency all perovskite tandem solar cells - State-of-the-art all-perovskite tandem devices remain limited to a short-circuit current density below 16. 7 m A cm-2, largely because of insufficient light utilization. - Optical improvements to the narrow-bandgap sub-cell must be…...