Tiny flow chips, faster clean catalysis | Newswise
[ad_1] Catalytic treatment of industrial pollutants has long faced a practical bottleneck. Noble metal nanoparticles are highly active, but they often tend to aggregate, reducing the number of active usable reaction sites. Traditional methods for producing polymer-supported catalysts can also be slow, multistep, and dependent on toxic reagents, surfactants, or poorly controlled batch conditions. Meanwhile, […]
Turning Toxic Marine Mud Into Safe Construction Fill | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Marine mud is generated in large quantities during dredging, coastal development, land reclamation, and marine construction. In fast-growing urban regions, this sediment can become a major waste-management burden because it is wet, sticky, difficult to handle, and often contaminated with heavy metals. Conventional stabilization methods usually rely heavily on Portland cement, which […]
Idaho Researchers Advance Critical Materials Recycling Technologies | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Labeled glass containers full of liquids stirred by spinning magnets are connected to humming machines with neatly organized tubes. Here in this lab space at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), scientists are pioneering ways to extract critical materials from recycled waste products. Critical materials are essential to modern life because they possess […]
Boosting Water Electrolysis Catalyst Performance via Simultaneous Control of Lattice Distortion and Oxygen Vacancies! | Newswise
[ad_1] # A novel catalyst design enables simultaneous control of lattice structure and oxygen vacancies in molybdenum oxide through iron (Fe) substitution, with the study selected as a cover article in a leading international journal. # Achieves high water electrolysis performance using low-cost, non-precious metal-based catalysts, with strong potential for applications in eco-friendly hydrogen production […]
Teaching Robots to Fly Like Birds | Newswise
[ad_1] BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — A bird banking in a crosswind doesn’t rely on spinning blades. Its wings flex, twist and respond instantly to its environment. Engineers at Rutgers University have taken a major step toward building bird-like drones that move the same way, flapping their wings like real birds, using electricity-driven materials instead […]
ATLAS: Four Decades of Nuclear Physics Innovation
[ad_1] Newswise — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” If the celebrated poet were alive today, he might admit that, when it comes to vague beginnings, love is not alone. Ask two people when the week begins, and […]
Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once. A reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments still analyze their molecules one or just a few at a time, an approach that is inefficient and costly, and in which rare, but significant molecules can easily […]
Solid, Tough, and Fast: A Composite Electrolyte That Helps Tame Lithium Dendrites | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Liquid electrolytes enable fast ion transport but can raise safety concerns, and lithium metal anodes—despite their high capacity—can grow dendrites that trigger short circuits and rapid failure. Solid polymer electrolytes are attractive because they are processable and potentially compatible with lithium metal, yet many polymer systems (especially PEO-based) become highly crystalline at […]
UAH to Host Southeast Aerial Drone Competition Regional Championship April 17–18 for Middle and High School Students | Newswise
[ad_1] BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, will host the Southeast Aerial Drone Competition (ADC) Regional Championship April 17–18 at Spragins Hall on the UAH campus. The event will bring middle and high school students from across the Southeast to Huntsville […]
Five Georgia Tech Faculty Named to NAI Senior Members Class of 2026 | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Five faculty members from Georgia Tech have been elected as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). As members, they are recognized as distinguished academic inventors with a strong record of patenting technologies, licensing IP, and commercializing their research. Their innovations have made, or have the potential to make, meaningful impacts on society. “The election […]