The quest for efficient and durable oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts is pivotal for the advancement of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology. Despite their widespread ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has successfully used mechanical ...

Definition: Strain engineering is a critical field of materials science and nanotechnology that involves the deliberate application of strain to alter the physical properties of materials. This ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit exceptional mechanical flexibility and electronic properties, making them promising candidates for next-generation flexible electronics. Notably, their atomic ...

Predicting how continuous microscopic strains alter local bond lengths and hopping energies has required computationally taxing physics simulations, frustrating attempts to efficiently scan the ...

Microbial biofuels research explores how microorganisms can be engineered and cultivated to convert renewable resources into liquid and gaseous fuels with ...

These mutations improve biocontainment, transformation stability, and overall performance in genetic engineering of plants. Complementing the strains, researchers also developed new plasmids and a ...