Role of glucose. Credit: Monash Energy Institute. Simply by adding sugar, researchers from the Monash Energy Institute have created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to the lithium-ion batteries that are essential for aviation, electric vehicles and submarines. The Monash team, assisted by CSIRO, report in Nature Communications that using

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Credit: Pixabay. Anyone using a cellphone, laptop or electric vehicle depends on lithium. The element is in tremendous demand. And although the supply of lithium around the world is plentiful, getting access to it and extracting it remains a challenging and inefficient process. An interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists

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Credit: American Chemical Society. Some electronics can bend, twist and stretch in wearable displays, biomedical applications and soft robots. While these devices’ circuits have become increasingly pliable, the batteries and supercapacitors that power them are still rigid. Now, researchers in ACS’ Nano Letters report a flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made

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Credit: ACS. There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the farthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could we know that? Reactions is a video series produced by the American Chemical Society and PBS Digital Studios. The American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Credit: Mikele Designer/Pixabay. Houses, roads, glass, electronics. Sand is a main component in large parts of modern civilization. But we are using it faster than nature can produce it. Sand excavation is increasingly conducted in mines and along rivers in low- and middle-income countries, but up until now no one

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