Data Storage Materials

Permanent digital data storage: A materials approach

Permanent marks, interpreted as bits, are the sine qua non of deep archival storage. Until about 2006, this area of research apparently did not exist, but advances in the past several years at Brigham Young University and at Millenniata, Inc., have produced one product (the M-Disc a permanent recordable optical disc of DVD capacity), a follow-on recordable optical disc of Blu-ray capacity, work...

Combinatorial Synthesis and Screening of Chalcogenide Materials for Data Storage

For more than 15 years researchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton have been developing novel compositions of chalcogenide glasses for a wide range of optical applications. Recently this expertise has been combined with those of Ilika Technologies Ltd and the School of Chemistry to focus on the development of enhanced chalcogenide materials for OUM and op...

Multi-functional Energy Storage Materials

Hydrogen is recognized as a potential and extremely interesting energy carrier, which can facilitate efficient utilization of unevenly distributed renewable energy. Furthermore, hydrogen has an extremely interesting chemistry and form compounds with most elements in the periodic table and with a variety of different types of bonds. Metal hydrides has recently become very interesting as new clas...

Polyimides: promising energy-storage materials.

Based on this redox mechanism, we developed a series of polyamides with different structures and investigated their electrochemical activity as cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries. The results show that the polymer framework endows these samples with excellent cycling stability. Additionally, their capacity and rate capability are also satisfactory. The five polyimides were obt...

Nanostructured Polymeric Materials for Hydrogen Storage