Thermoplastic, polysaccharide-based plastics are environmentally friendly. However, typical shortcomings include lack of water resistance and poor mechanical properties. Nanocomposite manufacturing using pure, highly linear, polysaccharides can overcome such limitations. Cast nanocomposites were fabricated with plant engineered pure amylose (AM), produced in bulk quantity transgenic barley grai...

Room-temperature sodium–sulfur (RT/Na–S) batteries are regarded as promising large-scale stationary energy storage systems owing to their high density and low cost well the earth-abundant reserves of sodium sulfur. However, diffusion polysulfides sluggish kinetics conversion reactions still major challenges for application. Herein, we developed a powerful functional separator inhibit shuttle ef...