This week I am attending the Materials Research Society Fall meeting in Boston, where there is a big focus on energy. Catalysis, fuel cells, batteries, solar cells, solar fuel, you name it. And I had a discussion with some researchers from the inorganic solar cell community, who asked me what is with the organic solar cells? [...]
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Through the tangled web
October 18, 2011
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Understanding the properties of something chaotic such as a bowl of spaghetti may seem a daunting task. But that’s what Garry Rumbles from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the USA, Natalie Stingelin from Imperial College London in the UK, and coworkers are trying to do. With success. They study polymers – long spaghetti-like molecules [...]
Read moreThe Fukushima debate misses the broader picture
April 7, 2011
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The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants is a real tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated around the plants, many of which continue to live in shelters with little comfort and privacy. And even worse, there are more than 27,000 people that are either dead or declared missing as a consequence of [...]
Read more2010 – twelve months of great science
December 27, 2010
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The past year has been a great year for science with major advances in several areas. Too many exciting results to mention here. Instead, to reflect about the past year I have chosen a representative paper for each month of the year that I hope can serve as an example of the great science going [...]
Read moreHow to get rich fast with batteries
December 10, 2010
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The title of this blog post is a bit tongue in cheek, but the situation isn’t that far from the truth when it comes to rechargeable batteries such as lithium-ion batteries. Ever since lithium-ion batteries were first commercialized in 1991 by Sony, based on work by John Goodenough and others, they have been highly successful in the [...]
Read moreElementary needs
October 14, 2010
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This morning I read an article by the Scientific American editor David Biello on an important topic: the importance of rare earth elements for our economy, and the power of those few countries that export them on a larger scale. (disclaimer: Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group, my employer) David hits an important [...]
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- High-risk research can’t be kept secret forever
- The economics of science
- Decisions, decisions
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