Research team aims to improve plant-based battery with neutrons, simulation
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 06:10
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —When Orlando Rios first started analyzing samples of carbon fibers made from a woody plant polymer known as lignin, he noticed something unusual. The material's microstructure—a mixture of perfectly spherical nanoscale crystallites distributed within a fibrous matrix—looked almost too good to be true.