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Photoelectrode
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
Photoelectrode A material that absorbs incident light to produce current through an external circuit.
Device
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
A thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, esp. a mechanical or electrical one.
Polyvinyl butyral
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
A resin usually used for applications that require strong binding, optical clarity, adhesion to many surfaces, toughness and flexibility
Unobtainium
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
A fictional element that is used in a wide range of theoretical applications. Unobtainium can take quality impossible to simplify the problems. As such, it can be infinitely cheap, strong, ...
Chirality
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
The characteristic of a structure (usually a molecule) that makes it impossible to superimpose it on its mirror image
Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT)
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
An allotrope of carbon, and cylindrical structures comprising a single layer of graphene sheet
Catalyst
Chemistry; Materials chemistry
A substance that starts or speeds up a chemical reaction between other substances. They are not changed by chemical reaction.
