Salt crystals can be created by slowly evaporating saturated salt water. It seems very simple and easy when you hear about it, but in order to create crystals with high transparency, it is necessary ...

A few years ago, Alan Jaras told a science fiction story on Flickr, using images of crystals he’d photographed under a microscope. He called it MicroWorld. Here are a few of the breathtaking images ...

Just like standard lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries work by sending ions back and forth between a pair of electrodes in a liquid electrolyte, but current designs have their limitations. A ...

IN this note a method of quantitative calculation and construction of Laue patterns from bent sodium chloride crystals is proposed, which is in good agreement with experiment. It is known 1 that when ...

Batteries that use a sodium-ion chemistry rather than the commonplace lithium-ion could offer a number of advantages, owing to the cheap and abundant nature of the element. Scientists at Washington ...

Researchers have created a sodium-ion battery that holds as much energy and works as well as some commercial lithium-ion battery chemistries, making for a potentially viable battery technology out of ...

While everyone else was worrying about cheap oil and the future of electric cars, sodium batteries just got closer to becoming mainstream. This challenger to lithium ion technology has been around for ...

SEVERAL times in the past few years, samples of undried or partly dried salt cod with an accumulation of crystals appearing over the surface have been submitted to this laboratory for examination.

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found new clues about the ingredients for life that were present in the early ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have created a sodium-ion battery that holds as much energy and works as well as some ...