PAPERS OF NOTE
August 6, 2009

Carbon-silicon nanowires and cool biofuel catalyst

* Yi Cui's group at Stanford has advanced recent work on silicon core-shell nanowire battery electrodes by replacing the crystalline silicon cores with cheaper, sturdier carbon. See Carbon-Silicon Core-Shell Nanowires as High Capacity Electrode for Lithium Ion Batteries, Nano Letters, online August 5, 2009.

* A tungsten-based catalyst allows fructose to be converted to a biofuel precursor at room temperature and ambient pressure. See Selective Conversion of Fructose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Catalyzed by Tungsten Salts at Low Temperatures, ChemSusChem, online July 31, 2009.


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