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CO2 Reduction: Enabling Sustainable Fuels
CO2 reduction is a critical part of the research into sustainable fuels. The time-dependent depletion of CO2 using a suitable cathode material as a...
Long-Term Volcano Surveillance via Volcanic Sediment Analysis
Why is Volcano Surveillance Necessary? Volcanoes pose a danger to life in many parts of the world. Eruptions occur relatively frequently, presenting...
Cathode Studies: New Opportunities in Li-Ion Batteries
Research and development (R&D) into novel energy storage materials is important to improve the utility of energy generated from renewable...
A Brief History of Lithium Ion Battery Development
The Beginning of the Lithium Battery For many years, the only suitable battery for portable equipment, such as mobile computing and wireless...
Electrocatalyst Studies: Enabling Next-Gen Fuel Cells
What is a Fuel Cell? Fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical reaction rather than combustion. Inside a fuel cell, hydrogen and...
Key Objectives in Modern Fuel Cell Studies
What are Fuel Cells? Fuel cells use the chemical energy of hydrogen or an alternative fuel to cleanly and efficiently produce electricity. Using...
Thin Film Applications of the UHV-TPD Workstation
A successful method for investigating the microstructure of thin films by thermal effusion measurements is Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD),...
Surface Engineering & Thin Film Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology represents a new frontier in research and development (R&D) across a broad spectrum of human endeavours. Though concerned with...
Solar Cell Thin Film Analysers: The Basics
Global energy consumption is rapidly outstripping the available supply. When we factor in that over half of the world’s electricity is generated by...