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“Polymer-based membranes that selectively separate hydrocarbon and crude oil mixtures could eclipse current industrial thermal processes. Polymer-based membranes developed at KAUST could enable greener and cheaper industrial separation approaches. Their stability and selectivity can be tuned by thermal crosslinking to …
“Pulses from an atom-sharp tip enable researchers to break and form chemical bonds at will. Chemical reactions often produce messy mixtures of different products. Hence, chemists spend a lot of time coaxing their reactions to be more selective to make …
“A simple reordering of the layers in solar-cell modules can help improve efficiency. A solar-cell module that mitigates cell-to-module losses has been developed by KAUST researchers following a rethink of the module’s optical design and how it should be …
“Fabricating intricate optical structures onto the tip of an optical fiber creates a new source of special light beams. An all fiber-based approach to generating special optical beams, called Bessel beams, could open up new applications in imaging, optical trapping …
“Nanomaterials offer a way to get many electrical charges from each photon absorbed by a solar cell. Tiny crystals, known as quantum dots, have enabled an international team to achieve a quantum efficiency exceeding 100 percent in the photocurrent generated …
“A transition metal catalyst discovery could help to establish renewably generated electricity at the heart of a clean chemicals industry. Sustainable fuel and chemicals production is closer to becoming a practical reality after KAUST researchers analyzed a precious metal-free electrochemical …
“An extra metal fluoride layer facilitates charge separation and boosts performance in perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells. Inserting a metal fluoride layer in multilayered perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells can stall charge recombination and enhance performance, KAUST researchers have found …
“A combination of efficient math and parallel computation accelerates the modeling of viscous liquid flow. By redesigning how fluids are simulated, KAUST researchers have demonstrated a more than tenfold speed increase on the previous state of the art for slow-flowing …
“Teaching AI to capture the full spectrum of human emotions when annotating artwork. Giving artificial intelligence (AI) a more balanced perspective of artwork during training can reduce emotional bias in computer-generated captions. Despite incredible advances in AI, it remains a …
“Graphitic thin films hit high temperatures within seconds under low voltage. Combining multiple carbon nanomaterials in a single substance can yield surprising properties. KAUST researchers have created thin graphite films that could act as high-performance flexible heater panels, reaching several …