The romance of the underdog

Crystal Palace’s Joel Ward celebrates with teammates and the trophy after winning the FA Cup on Saturday | Photo Credit: DAVID KLEIN In the sporting realm, the heartwarming journey of the underdog always strikes a chord. Crystal Palace winning the prestigious FA Cup by beating the mighty Manchester City on Saturday was one such story. …

Benign hydrogen production through piezocatalysis

Piezocatalysis has emerged as a promising catalytic technology that harvests mechanical perturbations with a piezoelectric material to generate charge carriers, which are used to catalyse water splitting. This is an environmentally benign method of hydrogen production and, overall, water splitting stands out as an efficient and scalable technique relying on catalysis. In recent groundbreaking work,…