Researchers have found that a unique type of coating can boost efficiency of hydrogen production. They revealed that the common non-stick coating used in cookware boosts hydrogen production efficiency ...

Osaka, Japan - Many common household items and devices have a coating that improves performance. For example, the thin Teflon coating on cookware helps prevent food from sticking to the surface.

A common non-stick coating used in cookware has been shown to enhance hydrogen production efficiency in water electrolyzers by approximately 40%. The key innovation involves applying a specialized ...

AnalySwift, LLC, a provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for composites, announced that University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is participating in its Academic Partner Program (APP), ...

With the rapid development of material science and manufacturing science, a large number of complex structures have been designed, manufactured and applied in the industrial field. Most of the current ...

Engineers have developed dynamic porous polymer coatings that enable inexpensive and scalable ways to control light and heat in buildings. They took advantage of the optical switchability of PPCs in ...

In recent years, porous two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, carbon nitride, and boron nitride have garnered a lot of interest due to their unique ...

Optical transformation: porous polymer coatings switch from white to translucent when wetted and can be put in frames to make panels for light and temperature control of buildings. (Courtesy: ...

(Nanowerk News) Buildings devote more than 30% of their energy use to heating, cooling, and lighting systems. Passive designs such as cool roof paints have gone a long way toward reducing this usage, ...