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Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide—as a Solid
Nanoscale features in rocks enable more carbon dioxide to be trapped as a solid carbonate material underground.
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New Superhard Form of Carbon Dents Diamond
Squeezing creates new class of material built from clusters of carbon atoms.
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Future Solar Cells: Thinner, Brighter, and Better
New theory describes light management in thin-film solar cells.
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New Catalytic Approach Builds Molecules with Specific Functionality More...
Rapid creation of carbon-fluorine bonds may lead to improved production of drugs, agrochemicals and positron emission tomography (PET) tracers.
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Mimicking Photosynthesis for Production of Solar Fuels
A step closer to an artificial system using sunlight to produce hydrogen from water
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Adding Nanocavities to Catalyst Surfaces Enhances Chemical Selectivity
Adding an oxide sieve, a layer containing nanocavities, to a catalyst surface makes the catalyst selective for specific reactions and increases efficiencies for chemical processes.
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Fabricating Nanowire Lasers
Precise control of nanowire geometry and optical environment enables tuning of lasing properties.
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Bridging the Nano-World and the Real World in Polymer Solar Cells
Discovering how polymer organization on the molecular level affects electric charge movement in organic solar cells.
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Two for the Price of One: Water and Carbon Dioxide Splitting via a Single...
A simple, robust catalyst is capable of both water oxidation and carbon dioxide splitting, two difficult yet key reactions for solar energy conversion.
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Absorbing More of the Rainbow with Polymer-Based Organic Photovoltaics
Using newly synthesized polymers results in enhanced light harvesting capabilities and an unprecedented generation of photocurrent.
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Mapping Subsurface CO2 Migration
New computational technique creates high resolution maps of subsurface CO2 after geologic sequestration.
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An Unexpected Heat Wave
Observation of wavelike heat conduction reveals new possibilities for tailoring thermal transport through wave effects.
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Double the Charge from One Photon in Organic Photovoltaics
First observation of key intermediate state in the conversion of one photon to two electrons.
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Understanding Nature’s Choreography in Batteries
Charge-discharge chemistry for lithium ion batteries elucidated by theoretical calculations.
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Nano-Composite Designs for Energy Storage
Nano-porous metal oxide coatings on carbon fiber dramatically enhance the electrical storage capacity for supercapacitors.
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Making the Right Substitution for Better Thermoelectrics
Exploiting the self-organizing nature of atoms to block heat transfer and improve thermal-to-electrical energy conversion.
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What Causes High-temperature Superconductivity?
A phase change at absolute zero temperature may provide key insights into the decades-old mystery of high-temperature superconductivity.
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Discovery of New Materials to Capture Methane
Predicted materials could economically produce high-purity methane from natural gas systems and separate methane from coal mine ventilation systems.
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The Best of Both Worlds
Researchers create materials that can store lots of energy and deliver it quickly.
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Fewer Steps to Higher Octane Gasoline in Petroleum Refining
A novel metal-organic framework (MOF) efficiently separates higher octane components from the low value ones, offering great potential for significant cost reduction in gasoline production.
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