While burning electric vehicles, exploding e-bikes and melting smartphones no longer make the headlines, the issue of battery safety has yet to be fully resolved. To address this, UBC researchers ...

A wave of alternative battery technologies is emerging to address the drawbacks of lithium-ion, but their financial viability ...

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Researchers from Skoltech, MIPT, and the RAS Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics have achieved a five-fold increase in the capacitance of carbon nanowalls, a material used in the ...

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The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

A tiny fleet of gold nanorobots is teaching stem cells how to become bone. At the same time, another lab is using gentle ...

Startups flush with cash are spinning up AI-assisted laboratories with the hope of finding new materials much faster.