have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as ... nanocrystalline cellulose templates in driving the formation of ordered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles ...

The nanolayers, made from metal-organic frameworks based on the metal hafnium, prevent ice crystal formation at very low concentrations. This effective novel cryoprotection mode could be used to ...

More information: Nan Li et al, Suppressing Dendritic Lithium Formation Using Porous Media in Lithium Metal-Based Batteries, Nano Letters (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00183 ...

Researchers at Rice University have found an alloy of copper, vanadium, and sulfur that forms crystals that, due to quantum effects, can trap electrons. This can produce flat bands, which have ...

Extensive industrial catalytic applications have shown that the confined nano-channels of zeolites can precisely regulate ...

The formation of these dendrites in battery ... 2023 in Nature Energy. To grow lithium metal crystals, the researchers replaced the ubiquitous copper surfaces on the negative side (the anode ...

Deriving the desired chemical and physical properties necessary for those applications hinges on the uniform size of the metal crystals ... templates in driving the formation of ordered metal ...