It’s a helpful rule of thumb: Main group elements prefer forming bonds that give them eight valence electrons; transition metals go for 18 electrons. Now scientists have shown that main group elements ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Sodium-ion battery, as an emerging battery technology beyond lithium-ion battery, has attracted great research interests recent years. Sodium-ion batteries have a similar ...

Scientists at Kunming University of Science and Technology collaborating with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have discovered a promising method for removing harmful alkaline earth metal ions ...

Developing highly efficient electrocatalysts for the CO 2 reduction reaction has attracted increasing interests in the past decade. Fe porphyrins have been shown to be highly efficient and selective ...

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