Small scale, big improvements
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 10:51
in Physics & Chemistry
Chemical reactions that make improvements in water purification and batteries possible occur at scales too small to see. A team of researchers has developed a way to produce real-time observations documenting the reactions that happen between liquids and solids. The technique can be used to gauge effectiveness of water purification where ion exchange is critical to sanitization and tease out limiting factors to supercapacitors used to power consumer electronics and hybrid vehicles.