INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
A collection of articles from a variety of industries that highlight technological advancements and applications in chemistry, curated by the Materiant Team.
Imagine you're on your way to Mars, and you lose a crucial tool during a spacewalk. Not to worry, you'll simply re-enter your spacecraft and use some microorganisms to convert your urine and exhaled carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals to make a new one. That's one of the ultimate goals of scientists who are developing ways to make long space trips feasible.
Read MorePhotosynthesis provides energy for the vast majority of life on Earth. But chlorophyll, the green pigment that plants use to harvest sunlight, is relatively inefficient. To enable humans to capture more of the sun's energy than natural photosynthesis can, scientists have taught bacteria to cover themselves in tiny, highly efficient solar panels to produce useful compounds.
Read MoreMaking a biocell that is as effective as a platinum fuel cell: that's the feat that researchers in the Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) have achieved... This biocell could, in the long run, offer an alternative to fuel cells that require rare and costly metals, such as platinum.
Read MoreNewAtlas.com When spiders are given water laced with graphene or carbon nanotubes, the material gets passed into their silk
Read MoreScienceDaily.com As graphene's popularity grows as an advanced 'wonder' material, the speed and quality at which it can be manufactured will be paramount.
Read MorePhys.org Flatter materials have fewer imperfections, which makes for better solar cells and light sensors
Read MoreScienceDaily.com Physicists have managed to create optical hollows and more complex patterns into which the light of a Bose-Einstein condensate flows.
Read MoreWired.com COMPUTERS USED TO require entire buildings to operate. Now they fit in our pockets. Similarly, factory-size electronics manufacturing is approaching a contraction. Want proof? Look at that $50 printer on your desk and imagine, instead of using it to spit out a hard copy of that thank-you note, that you used it to print some digital memory.
Read MoreWired.com The reign of silicon may be coming to an end. For years, researchers and entrepreneurs hoped that carbon nanotubes would revolutionize microchip design.
Read MoreMIT.edu Method to reinforce these materials could help make airplane frames lighter, more damage-resistant.
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