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Chemistry World April 25, 2013 Charlie Quigg	Inorganic nanosheet to enhance batteries A graphene inspired electrode material that could help batteries hold more power has been developed by Chinese scientists. The large surface area of these cobalt oxide nanosheets is key to their electrochemical performance.
Chemistry World March 13, 2006 Simon Hadlington	New Way to Produce Heavy Rare Earth Metals Chemists have for the first time demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of a solid oxide of a heavy rare earth metal into its metallic state.
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Carbon nanotubes boost battery power Researchers in the US claim to have created electrodes from carbon nanotubes that can make lithium-ion batteries some ten times more powerful than conventional models.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Tim Wogan	Disorder opens up battery material field Better lithium-ion batteries that hold more power could be made by introducing disorder into their electrodes -- going against the prevailing wisdom on the best way to improve them.
Chemistry World September 15, 2015 William Bergius	New cathode material for sodium ion batteries An international team of scientists led by the inventor of the lithium ion battery has put forward a new cathode material for its potential successor, the sodium ion battery.
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Tim Wogan	Doped electrodes cram charge into supercapacitors A new supercapacitor electrode material has been created by Chinese researchers that can store much more energy than conventional supercapacitors.
Chemistry World February 15, 2010 Andy Extance	Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries.
Chemistry World May 17, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Carbon electrodes help form high capacity lithium-sulfur batteries Chemists in Canada have used a carbon framework to form an electrode in lithium-sulfur batteries that results in charge capacities several times greater than standard lithium ion batteries.
Chemistry World September 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Graphene racks up the charge Researchers in the US have used graphene, sheets of carbon that are just one atom thick, to improve the performance of energy-storage devices which could supersede batteries in electric cars.
Chemistry World March 23, 2011	Battery Turns Entropy Into Electricity US researchers have developed a battery that generates power from that entropy difference.
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Biological battery powers up Scientists in the US have created a rechargeable 'lithium ion' battery with the help of a genetically programmed virus that acts as a scaffold for highly conductive electrodes.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Silicon Nanowire Boost for Rechargeable Batteries Scientists in the US have devised an easy way of using silicon nanowires to increase the capacity of lithium batteries.
Chemistry World August 14, 2013 Patrick Walter	'Smart glass' can tune out light and heat Researchers have produced glass that can be tuned to block visible light, infrared radiation or both simply by adjusting the voltage across it.
Chemistry World September 15, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Super-thin batteries made from paper and algae Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Nanoporous anodes charge up Scientists in China and the US say a new anode material they have created represents a significant step forward in the development of long-life stationary lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage systems.
Chemistry World March 19, 2014 Jon Cartwright	Computer memory made from sugar cube The sugar-based metal -- organic framework infused with rubidium hydroxide can be switched between high and low resistance states, in a similar way to resistive random-access memory.
Chemistry World December 15, 2014 Dannielle Whittaker	From nutshell to supercapattery Scientists in Canada have created a hybrid sodium ion capacitor (NIC) from peanut shells in a pioneering study bridging the gap between conventional ion batteries and supercapacitors.
Chemistry World November 2, 2015 Tim Wogan	New lithium-air battery safe from water damage A lithium-air battery with superior efficiency and stability has been developed by researchers in the UK.
Popular Mechanics December 20, 2007 Logan Ward	New Nanowire Battery Life Reaches From iPods to Electric Cars Lithium-ion batteries that power most devices may soon be able to hold 10 times as much power.
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 Kira Welter	Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions.
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Why is silver deposition so fast? Researchers appear to have solved one of electrochemistry's more baffling mysteries: why it is that metal ions deposit onto an electrode at an apparently unfeasibly fast rate.
Chemistry World March 11, 2011 Harriet Brewerton	Drawing batteries Scientists in Japan have made an electrode for a lithium-air battery using a pencil. The advance could bring efficient, environmentally friendly and safe batteries for electric vehicles a step closer.
Chemistry World June 6, 2014 Philip Ball	Chemistry gets strange at water's surface The attraction of opposite charges may get even stronger near the interface, say colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chemistry World February 23, 2011 Laura Howes	Capsules for safer and more reliable lithium ion batteries Capsules coated onto electrodes could mitigate potential problems with lithium ion batteries by turning the batteries off when they overheat and 'healing' the electrodes when they crack and degrade, according to a researcher in the US.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003	Magnesium batteries show mettle Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have developed rechargeable batteries made from magnesium, a cheap, abundant and relatively environmentally friendly metal.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman	Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.
Chemistry World June 24, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Nanogenerators for environmental sensors A nanomaterial-based, self-powered sensor that detects mercury in water has been developed by teams from the US and Korea.
Chemistry World September 26, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Electric vehicles set to charge ahead 'There is a big effort to improve lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and largely the outcome will be dictated by how the consumer reacts,' says Daniel Abraham, a battery expert at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US.
Chemistry World August 15, 2012 Steve Down	Single catalyst for oxidation and reduction of water European scientists have developed a catalyst based on cobalt that generates hydrogen from water in a simple electrochemical process using low overpotentials, with the added bonus that it can also be used to produce oxygen after anodic equilibration.
Chemistry World December 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Iron Oxide Succumbs to the Gentle Touch Chemists in Japan and France have produced a new iron oxide with a sheet-like structure that could be used in fuel cells and sensors.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	On-chip battery debuts Researchers from Hosei University in Japan have taken a big step toward giving nano devices and biochips onboard power supplies.
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Ian Randall	Molecular transistor for cheaper, greener electronics Chinese and Danish scientists have placed a transistor made from a single molecular monolayer onto an electronic chip. The new chip harnesses graphene oxide as a transparent electrode so that light can be used to switch the transistor.
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Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Helen Bache	Cleaning Cadmium From Blood With the development of modern industries, heavy metal pollution in humans is on the rise, say researchers in China, who have now designed a supermagnetic nanocomposite to effectively remove one of the pollutants - cadmium ions - from blood.