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After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...

Power flow analysis has become an indispensable tool in ensuring the reliable design, operation and optimisation of electrical grids. By solving a set of nonlinear algebraic equations, engineers are ...

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A new iron-based aqueous flow battery shows promise for grid energy storage applications. A commonplace chemical used in water treatment facilities has been repurposed for large-scale energy storage ...

Metal nanostructures can concentrate light so strongly that they can trigger chemical reactions. The key players in this ...

Maria Skyllas-Kazacos works for UNSW Sydney and consults for/owns shares in mineral company Tivan. She receives funding from various government funded projects including the Trailblazer for Recycling ...

Scientists in China have constructed and tested a device that uses redox couples paired with a single triple-junction amorphous-silicon photoelectrode. When tested under a xenon lamp simulating one ...