Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can revolutionise our understanding of these crucial materials. Clare Sansom reports ...

Sometimes, in order to go big, you first have to go small. That's what researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific ...

The UN Global Technical Regulation No. 206 on EV safety — reflected in both European and Chinese regulations — requires that ...

A flow battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses two different chemical solutions (electrolytes) to store energy.

Organolithium compounds, molecules containing a carbon–lithium bond, are excellent precursors for building new carbon–carbon ...

Charging your phone is a mundane part of life that people don’t usually think twice about — but some charging habits might be ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. The discovery is of great interest for cancer medicine because a change of identity of cells has come into focus as a ...

This important study characterizes the mechanics and stability of bolalipids from archaeal membranes using molecular dynamics simulations. A mesoscale model of bolalipids is presented and evaluated ...

Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components -- the rotor and stators. Despite much research, the exact molecular mechanism underlying stator function ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

A discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a ...

Solar cells with two faces can capture more sunlight than ever and they can even be put on transparent glass windows.