The discovery of nanostructured carbon material “fullerenes” has emerged as a new substitute for widely-accepted nanocarbon material like graphene in the world of nano-research. The…
Read more
Graphene has transformed material research worldwide. Graphene is considered an innovative material that could impact a wide variety of fields. The electronic, chemical, and structural…
Read more
According to the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, every particle has also an undulatory nature. The characteristic wavelength associated with an elementary particle depends on…
Read more
Traditionally, activated sludge has been the most commonly used biological process for municipal wastewater treatment. Soluble microbial products (SMPs) formed by microorganisms constitute a wide…
Read more
Sustainable energy – a global grand challenge Recent decades have seen an ever-increasing interest in the utilization of renewable and sustainable energy sources such as…
Read more
Every spring, the forest near Hualien (Taiwan) gleams with a myriad of flickering lights. Curious visitors stare at these moving bright dots with amusement. The…
Read more
Composite materials are inherently anisotropic and heterogeneous at the micromechanical scale, and its microstructure provides the bridge between manufacturing and performance. Prediction of performance and…
Read more
“Economy of size is important; it allows economies of energy. Nature does it through evolution and adaptation – human ingenuity does it through elegance, short-cuts…
Read more
High-throughput screening (HTS) and combinatorial chemistry were introduced in the early 1990s to improve R&D productivity, which remained a daunting challenge for the pharmaceutical industry….
Read more
The sugar found in RNA is ribose, whereas the sugar found in DNA is deoxyribose, both of which are 5-carbon sugars. Both types of sugars…
Read more
Solar photovoltaics (PV) has been growing at an exponential rate, more than doubling in the past 3 years to reach over 300 GW of power…
Read more