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IMAGE: Figure 1. The drawing of test apparatus and capacitance changes at different scan rates in different electrolytes under magnetic field. view more
Credit: LICP
Since energy storage devices are often used in a magnetic field environment, scientists have often explored how an external magnetic field affects the charge storage of nonmagnetic aqueous carbon-based supercapacitor systems.
Recently, an experiment designed by Prof. YAN Xingbin s group from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that applying an external magnetic field can induce capacitance change in aqueous acidic and alkaline electrolytes, but not in neutral electrolytes. The experiment also shows that the force field can explain the origin of the magnetic field effect.
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IMAGE: From left, Taylor Smith, MS, Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, Jozef Zienkiewicz, PhD, and Yan Liu, MD, and colleagues developed a peptide that may protect against life-threatening microbial inflammation with underlying. view more
Credit: Photo courtesy Hawiger lab
A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center can prevent, in an animal model, the often-fatal septic shock that can result from bacterial and viral infections.
Their findings, published this week in
Scientific Reports, could lead to a way to protect patients at highest risk for severe complications and death from out-of-control inflammatory responses to microbial infections, including COVID-19.
Credit: Manabu Abe, Hiroshima University
Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of conducting electricity and more but how do these curved systems change when new components are introduced? Researchers based in Japan found that, with just a few sub-atomic additions, the properties can pivot to vary system states and behaviors, as demonstrated through a new synthesized chemical compound.
The results were published on April 26 in the
Journal of the American Chemical Society. In the past decade, open-shell molecules have attracted considerable attention not only in the field of reactive intermediates, but also in materials science, said paper author Manabu Abe, professor in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University.
New technology that will marry probes that can detect cancer tumors through the skin with high-precision robotic surgery is to be developed for use in hospital settings for the first time in a project led by the University of Warwick.