Energy & Green Tech
In 2016, experts writing in Nature listed seven breakthroughs in how we process chemicals that could change the world for the better. We believe we've just ticked one of those off the list.
Jul 15, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
With the rise in renewable energy as well as increasing uncertainty associated with outages due to power surges and extreme weather events, energy storage plays a key role in ensuring reliable power supply to critical infrastructure ...
May 11, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Fiber-type solid-state supercapacitors can provide a stable power supply for next-generation wearable and flexible electronics. Typically, high charge storage and superior mechanical properties can be integrated into a single ...
Engineering
Alberta's world renown in carbon capture and sequestration is set to receive another lift thanks to the promise of a material invented and tested in the province that offers an efficient way to pull carbon dioxide out of ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Engineering
The separation of light hydrocarbon mixtures is among the most important petrochemical and industrial processes. This process is currently regarded as highly energy intensive, as it has so far been carried out using conventional ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a chemical process that leads to the generation of molecular oxygen. This reaction is of key importance for the development of clean energy technologies, including water electrolyzers, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Hydrogen gas and methanol for fuel cells, or as raw materials for the chemicals industry, for example, could be produced more sustainably using sunlight, a new Uppsala University study shows. In this study, researchers have ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
An artificial intelligence technique—machine learning—is helping accelerate the development of highly tunable materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that have important applications in chemical separations, ...
Nov 10, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
EPFL and MIT scientists have used machine-learning to organize the chemical diversity found in the ever-growing databases for the popular metal-organic framework materials.
Sep 14, 2020
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Engineering
A global research team has been able to transform brackish water and seawater into safe, clean drinking water in less than 30 minutes using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and sunlight.
Aug 10, 2020
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