You can safely eat foods with silicon dioxide, which is used to improve the texture and quality of some processed foods. Make informed decisions about food or supplements with additives by checking ...

Historically, making a thin phone meant trading the usual battery for one that's slimmer and less robust. And what good is a thin phone with poor battery life? Up-and-coming silicon-carbon battery ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Silicon is traditionally produced via carbothermic reduction, ...

On compression of alpha-cristobalite SiO2 to pressures above approximately 12 GPa, a new polymorph known as cristobalite X-I forms. The existence of cristobalite X-I has been known for several decades ...

Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet. The Great Readbuying time Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the ...

Zhou Yibao, the Product Manager for the OPPO Find Series has confirmed that the Oppo Find X8 series devices adopt silicon-carbon anode batteries, which the company calls glacier batteries. For those ...

Researchers at The University of Tokyo demonstrate enhanced radiative heat transfer across a gap between two micro-sized silicon plates by coating them with a layer of silicon dioxide, which may ...

Silicon is the basic building block of hyperscale technology. Pure silicon is highly reactive and, in nature, always combines with other elements – most commonly oxygen to form silicon dioxide (SiO2), ...

Applied Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) Energy Frontier Research Center, Argonne National ...