Featured in EPN
Featuring in the recent issue of EPN:
Space Exploration Technologies
Pegases – a new promising electric propulsion concept1
by A. Aanesland, S. Mazouffre & P. Chabert
‘Space represents a unique vantage point for both exploring the universe and looking down onto our own planet, enabling major discoveries with regard to our origins and the environment we live in. To observe, communicate and explore, we need technologies that can control our movement in space. This article will give a short introduction into spacecraft propulsion and present a new promising electric propulsion technology…’
A new class of spontaneously polarized materials2
by D. Field, O. Plekan, A. Cassidy, R. Balog & N. Jones
‘Very large electric fields form spontaneously within films of seemingly prosaic chemicals such as nitrous oxide or propane. We describe how the discovery of this unexpected phenomenon took place and how we attempt to understand the nature of the new class of spontaneously polarized materials, resembling ferroelectrics, which these observations herald…’
Sustainable Energy: How Quantum Chemistry Can Help3
by R. Gebauer
‘Computer simulations of electronic and structural properties can give detailed insight into atomic-scale processes in functional materials. Such studies play an important role in the quest for better strategies to harvest and store renewable energy…’
