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- Researchers have achieved a 100% breakdown of perfluorooctanesulfonate (a type of PFAS) in just eight hours and an 81% breakdown of Nafion (a fluoropolymer) in 24 hours. https://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=959 35 comments science
- Flexible thin film solar cells http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=690 55 comments upliftingnews
- Researchers have now developed an eco-friendly method that eliminates the use of toxic cadmium in the production process to produce cost-effective, efficient, eco-friendly, flexible thin-film solar cells. The method developed in the study can be scaled to large-scale manufacturing applications. http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=690 121 comments science
- Robust and low-cost cryptosystem for the post-quantum era. Scientists develop a chaos-based stream cipher that can withstand attacks from large-scale quantum computers. http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=669 20 comments science