K. Rogdakis, George Psaltakis, G. Fagas, Aidan Quinn, Rodrigo Martins, Emmanuel Kymakis
{"title":"Hybrid chips to enable a sustainable internet of things technology: opportunities and challenges","authors":"K. Rogdakis, George Psaltakis, G. Fagas, Aidan Quinn, Rodrigo Martins, Emmanuel Kymakis","doi":"10.1007/s43939-024-00074-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-024-00074-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"4 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140443450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation of hydrophilic MgAl type layered double hydroxide films with elevated Mg/Al molar ratio on aluminum substrates via a facile approach","authors":"Satoru Fukugaichi, Yuta Tomosugi, Hiromichi Aono","doi":"10.1007/s43939-024-00072-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-024-00072-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"61 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139843534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation of hydrophilic MgAl type layered double hydroxide films with elevated Mg/Al molar ratio on aluminum substrates via a facile approach","authors":"Satoru Fukugaichi, Yuta Tomosugi, Hiromichi Aono","doi":"10.1007/s43939-024-00072-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-024-00072-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"83 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139783539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of water absorption, hardness, and acoustic properties on sandwich syntactic foam composite for structural and marine applications","authors":"O. Afolabi, T. Mohan, K. Kanny","doi":"10.1007/s43939-023-00070-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-023-00070-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139389779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover MaterialsPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1007/s43939-024-00087-5
Zishuai Zhang, Daniela Vieira, Jake E Barralet, Geraldine Merle
{"title":"Amorphous multimetal based catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction.","authors":"Zishuai Zhang, Daniela Vieira, Jake E Barralet, Geraldine Merle","doi":"10.1007/s43939-024-00087-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-024-00087-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of efficient, low-cost water splitting electrocatalysts is needed to store energy by generating sustainable hydrogen from low power clean but intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind. Here, we report a highly sustained low overpotential for oxygen evolution reached by the unique combination of three metals (NiCoV) prepared from a simple low temperature auto-combustion process. The amorphous multimetal oxygen evolving catalyst could be stably coated on a stainless-steel support using a tribochemical particle blasting method to create an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrode with a low overpotential of 230 mV at 10 mA cm<sup>-2</sup> and a low Tafel slope of 40 mV dec<sup>-1</sup>. In addition to their low overpotential, this oxygen evolving electrocatalyst preserved performance demonstrating a stability after 10 h at the technologically relevant current density and without any surface morphology alteration. Given the importance of sustainable hydrogen production, the development of this new OER catalyst points the way to removing a key technical bottleneck for the water splitting reaction and could offer a route to cost reduction and lowering hurdles to more widespread adaptation of electrolyser technologies for hydrogen production.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43939-024-00087-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"4 1","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11199262/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141471227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Osunmakinde, T. B. Asafa, P. Agboola, M. Durowoju
{"title":"Development of aluminum composite reinforced with selected agricultural residues","authors":"L. Osunmakinde, T. B. Asafa, P. Agboola, M. Durowoju","doi":"10.1007/s43939-023-00069-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-023-00069-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"28 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The current impacts and future prospects of graphene derivatives in polymer-based supercapacitors","authors":"E. T. Mombeshora, E. Muchuweni","doi":"10.1007/s43939-023-00068-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-023-00068-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"23 41","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Pb doping on the structural, optical and electrical properties of sol–gel ZnO nanoparticles","authors":"Fatemeh Moosavi, G. Neri","doi":"10.1007/s43939-023-00066-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-023-00066-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34625,"journal":{"name":"Discover Materials","volume":"102 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139262354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}