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Dense Forests of Carbon Nanotubes
What do the words ‘dense forests of carbon nanotubes’ mean to you? Well, nanotubes are microscopically tiny graphite carbon sheets…
A Better Battery for Clean Energy
Professor Yi-Chun Lu works at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She…
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It is increasingly evident that we need to take care when handling quantities of lithium-ion batteries. We have reported fires…
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