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“Perfecting the dimensions of chemical separation membranes is a step toward a sustainable chemical industry. Super-thin carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membranes may not be best for separating industrially important chemical mixtures. However, ensuring the CMS film thickness is just right …
“Machine learning accelerates the search for promising Moon sites for energy and mineral resources. A Moon-scanning method that can automatically classify important lunar features from telescope images could significantly improve the efficiency of selecting sites for exploration. There is more …
“Conquering a chemical challenge to control the structure of a polymer opens a path to better biosensors. A new organic (carbon-based) semiconducting material has been developed that outperforms existing options for building the next generation of biosensors. An international research …
“A layer of hierarchically three-dimensional porous graphene greatly suppresses a problem holding back the development of lithium-sulfur batteries. As our society and transportation systems become increasingly electrified, scientists worldwide are seeking more efficient and higher capacity storage systems. Researchers at …
“The system offers an economical way to source essential battery material. Lithium is a vital element in the batteries that power electric vehicles, but soaring lithium demand is expected to exhaust land-based reserves by 2080. KAUST researchers have now developed …
“Pure red-light micrometer-scale emitting devices made from a nitride semiconductor reaches excellent efficiency. A new micro-light-emitting diode (micro-LED) developed at KAUST can efficiently emit pure red light and may help in the quest to develop full-color displays based on …
“Calculations predict that atom-thin sheets of carbon chalcogenides will grow wider when stretched in any direction. Like most materials, an elastic band gets thinner when it is stretched. But some materials behave in the opposite way — they grow thicker when …
“Mixed-cation single crystals narrow the gap between perovskite and top-performing semiconductor solar cells. A synthetic approach that improves absorber layers in perovskite solar cells could help them achieve their full potential and draw closer to the performance of leading gallium …
“A neural network that mimics the biology of the brain can be loaded onto a microchip for faster and more efficient artificial intelligence. A biomimicking “spiking” neural network on a microchip has enabled KAUST researchers to lay the foundation for …
“Optimizing network communication accelerates training in large-scale machine-learning models. Inserting lightweight optimization code in high-speed network devices has enabled a KAUST-led collaboration to increase the speed of machine learning on parallelized computing systems five-fold. This “in-network aggregation” technology, developed …