Though the sun produces more energy than we would ever need on Earth, current ...

Sunbeams contain a lot of energy. But current technology for harvesting solar power doesn't capture as much as it could. Now, ...

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In an unlikely collaboration between Skoltech's Petroleum Center and the drug delivery team from the Institute's Neuro Center ...

Researchers developed a fingertip-sized, humidity-tolerant hydrogen sensor using platinum nanoparticles that catalyze ...

Scientists have built a new a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery anode that incorporates iron oxide, ...

A single gold nanoparticle tends to absorb within a narrow band. Much of its strongest response sits in visible wavelengths.

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Researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome a long-standing limitation in plasmonic loss by reshaping light–matter ...

Researchers report that gold nanospheres, named supraballs, can absorb nearly all wavelengths in sunlight — including some ...

Conventional lithium-ion batteries contain problematic substances such as nickel and cobalt, and the solvents used to coat ...

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