An international team of researchers just published in Advanced Energy Materials the widest study on what happens during battery failure, focusing on the different parts of a battery at the same time. The role of the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, in France, was crucial for its success. We have all experienced it: you have charged your mobile…
Brittle Starfish Shows How to Make Tough Ceramics
Nature inspires innovation. An international team lead by researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, together with ESRF — the European Synchrotron in Grenoble, France — has discovered how a brittle star can create material like tempered glass underwater. The findings are published in Science and may open new bio-inspired routes for toughening brittle ceramics in…