Imagine an aircraft that could alter its wing shape in midflight and, like a pelican, dive into the water before morphing into a submarine. Cornell University engineering professor Rob Shepherd and ...

"Soft metals like lithium and sodium have excellent properties for being batteries' negative electrodes, with lithium considered as an ultimate anode material for future high-energy rechargeable ...

Soft porous crystals (SPCs), with soft metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as prominent examples, have attracted significant attention as a new generation of functional materials due to their remarkable ...

To create the new batteries needed for EVs, mobile devices and renewable energy storage, researchers have explored new materials, new designs, new configurations and new chemistry. But one aspect – ...