A new study in Small presents a 3D SiOx-embedded porous carbon nanofiber host that stabilizes lithium-metal batteries by ...

Additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing technologies have been used recently to produce activated carbons. However, most of the porous carbon precursors printed using these techniques are ...

Porous carbon from seaweed could boost Li-ion batteries and fuel cells, according to researcher Dr Dongjiang Yang. “We wanted to produce carbon-based materials via a really ‘green’ pathway,” he said. ...

The team’s 3D multiscale porous carbon aerogel has a surface area of around 1750 m 2 /g, and tests show that an electrode made from the material has a capacitance of 148.6 F/g when a voltage of 5 mV/s ...

(Nanowerk News) Kun (Kelvin) Fu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware, has used a 3D printer to make pure carbon nanotube (CNT) architectures. Fu is believed ...

The electrochemical conversion of CO 2 into carbon-based fuels and valuable ... for electroreducing CO 2 to CO. Such a porous, hollow-fiber Ag electrode acting as a CO 2 disperser not only ...

Melanie Gonick/MIT In its atom-thin 2D form, graphene is one of the strongest materials known to man, but scientists have struggled to translate that strength of the thin carbon sheets into useful ...

high-performance aerospace and defense parts using lightweight carbon fiber composites. “There is a lot of work being done in increasingly larger aerospace structures — aircraft fuselages, and that ...