Chemistry News
May 19, 2024
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May 16, 2024 — A team of chemists has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of chemical synthesis, developing a novel method for manipulating carbon-hydrogen bonds. This groundbreaking discovery provides new insights into the molecular interactions of ...
May 14, 2024 — Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using biotechnological methods, the production of polystyrene has ...
May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to leverage sustainable waste resources, ushering the ...
May 16, 2024 — Vanilla, the most widely used flavoring compound in confectionaries and cosmetics, gets its sweet flavor and aroma from the chemical compound -- 'vanillin'. However, the large-scale production of natural vanillin is impeded by the lack of microbial ...
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May 15, 2024 — Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The ...
May 16, 2024 — After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers are developing battery technologies to fight climate change in two ways, by expanding the use of renewable energy and capturing airborne carbon dioxide. Researchers recently created and ...
May 15, 2024 — A new analysis suggests that if it could be extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells could supply ...
May 15, 2024 — Thirteen years after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), a breakthrough in analysis has permitted a world first: direct imaging of radioactive cesium (Cs) atoms ...
May 15, 2024 — New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete can recycle double the amount of coal ash compared to current standards, halve the amount of cement required and perform exceptionally well over ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers who contributed to the development of record-breaking solar cells a few years ago, expanded their invention. The self-assembled monolayers can now be applied not only in inverted but also ...
May 14, 2024 — A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as ...
May 14, 2024 — A team of scientists has developed a novel technique to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from treated flue gas directly into high-value chemicals and ...
May 14, 2024 — A battery made from zinc and lignin that can be used over 8000 times. This has been developed with a vision to provide a cheap and sustainable battery solution for countries where access to ...
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May 14, 2024 — A prototype of a more durable material increases the biodegradability of food packaging, partially replacing its bioplastic with cellulose fibers extracted from the branches and leaves of the avocado ...
May 14, 2024 — Engineers achieve a wide field-of-hearing acoustic metalens free from ...
May 13, 2024 — Collaborative efforts decode the mechanism behind stabilizing cathode doping in electric vehicle ...
May 10, 2024 — Researchers have taken a key step toward closing the silver nanoparticles knowledge gap with a study that indicates the particles' shape and surface chemistry play key roles in how they affect ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team has solved an age-old challenge to synthesize all-organic two-dimensional perovskites, extending the ...
May 9, 2024 — The global chemical industry is a major fossil fuel consumer and climate change contributor; however, new research has identified how the sector could clean up its green credentials by getting ...
May 8, 2024 — Chemists created an enzyme with boronic acid at its reactive center. This approach can produce more selective reactions with boron, and allows the use of directed evolution to improve its catalytic ...
May 8, 2024 — What determines the cycle life of batteries? And, more importantly, how can we extend it? An international research team has discovered that local disorder in the oxide cathode material increases the ...
May 7, 2024 — Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, ...
May 7, 2024 — In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. Mozambique's Maniamba Basin could be a big source of natural ...
May 6, 2024 — By using experimental electrochemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and computational quantum chemistry modeling, the researchers created an 'atomic-scale storyline' to explain how ozone is ...
May 6, 2024 — Why 3,000 bars are needed to take a comprehensive look at a protein: Researchers present a new high-pressure spectroscopy method to unravel the properties of proteins' native ...
May 3, 2024 — The direction in which spin information is injected into chiral materials affects its ability to pass through them. These chiral 'gateways' could be used to design energy-efficient ...
May 3, 2024 — Scientists have demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and ...
May 2, 2024 — On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch of the next set of experiments by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with ...
May 2, 2024 — A research team has developed a fentanyl sensor that is six orders of magnitude more sensitive than any electrochemical sensor for the drug reported in the past five years. The portable sensor can ...
May 2, 2024 — Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding ...
May 2, 2024 — New catalyst is made from an inexpensive, abundant metal and table sugar. Catalyst converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide, a building block for producing a variety of useful chemicals ...
May 2, 2024 — Many natural substances possess interesting characteristics, and can form the basis of new active compounds in medicine. Terpenes, for example, are a group of substances, some of which are already ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Avocado Pruning Residues Used to Produce More Sustainable Food Packaging
- Metalens Expands Its Reach from Light to Sound
Monday, May 13, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- 2D All-Organic Perovskites: Potential Use in 2D Electronics
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- 'Better Than Graphene' Material Development May Improve Implantable Technology
- From Fossils to Fuel: Mozambique's Maniamba Basin's Energy Potential
Monday, May 6, 2024
- The Clues for Cleaner Water
- High-Pressure Spectroscopy: Why 3,000 Bars Are Needed to Take a Comprehensive Look at a Protein
Friday, May 3, 2024
- When Injecting Pure Spin Into Chiral Materials, Direction Matters
- Tweaking Isotopes Sheds Light on Promising Approach to Engineer Semiconductors
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Nevada Experiments Will Improve Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
- Nanotubes, Nanoparticles, and Antibodies Detect Tiny Amounts of Fentanyl
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
- New Approach in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Substances
- Toxic Chemicals Can Be Detected With New AI Method
- Researchers Create New Chemical Compound to Solve 120-Year-Old Problem
- Cost-Effective, High-Capacity, and Cyclable Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Missing Link in Species Conservation: Pharmacists, Chemists Could Turn Tide on Plant, Animal Extinction
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- Scientists Solve Chemical Mystery at the Interface of Biology and Technology
- Methane Emissions from Landfill Could Be Turned Into Sustainable Jet Fuel in Plasma Chemistry Leap
- Biodegradable 'living Plastic' Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
- A Virus Could Help Save Billions of Gallons of Wastewater Produced by Fracking
- Discovery of Mechanism Plants Use to Change Seed Oil Could Impact Industrial, Food Oils
Monday, April 29, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Getting Dynamic Information from Static Snapshots
- More Efficient Molecular Motor Widens Potential Applications
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Scientists Released Long-Term Data of Ground Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Improve Understanding of Canopy-Level Photosynthesis
- The Longer Spilled Oil Lingers in Freshwater, the More Persistent Compounds It Produces
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
- 'Like a Nanoscopic Moon Lander': Scientists Unlock Secret of How Pyramidal Molecules Move Across Surfaces
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Rubber-Like Stretchable Energy Storage Device Fabricated With Laser Precision
- A Chemical Mystery Solved -- The Reaction Explaining Large Carbon Sinks
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Researchers Create Artificial Cells That Act Like Living Cells
- Laser-Treated Cork Absorbs Oil for Carbon-Neutral Ocean Cleanup
Monday, April 22, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Accelerating the Discovery of New Materials Via the Ion-Exchange Method
- Energy Scientists Unravel the Mystery of Gold's Glow
- Development of Organic Semiconductors Featuring Ultrafast Electrons
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- From Defects to Order: Spontaneously Emerging Crystal Arrangements in Perovskite Halides
- Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial Sets Record for Expert-Defying, Counter-Intuitive Expansion
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Researchers Advance Pigment Chemistry With Moon-Inspired Reddish Magentas
Monday, April 15, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- A New Spin on Organic Shampoo Makes It Sudsier, Longer Lasting
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Discovery Brings All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries Closer to Practical Use
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New Strategy for Assessing the Applicability of Reactions
- Revolutionary Molecular Device Unleashes Potential for Targeted Drug Delivery and Self-Healing Materials
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Scientists Unveil Cutting-Edge Ruthenium Catalyst for New Reaction Discovery and Optimization
- Using Pulp and Paper Waste to Scrub Carbon from Emissions
- How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation
Friday, April 5, 2024
- A Simple, Inexpensive Way to Make Carbon Atoms Bind Together
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
- Rapid, Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Bacteria Achieved With Handheld Sensor
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
- Developing a Vaccine for the 'zombie Drug' Xylazine
- Unleashing Disordered Rocksalt Oxides as Cathodes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries
- Plastic-Free Vegan Leather That Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
- Water-Based Paints: Less Stinky, but Some Still Contain Potentially Hazardous Chemicals
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Engineers 'symphonize' Cleaner Ammonia Production
- Physics-Based Predictive Tool Will Speed Up Battery and Superconductor Research
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- New Approach to Monitoring Freshwater Quality Can Identify Sources of Pollution, and Predict Their Effects
- Study Unlocks the Power of Visible Light for Sustainable Chemistry
- Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Research Lights Up Process for Turning CO2 Into Sustainable Fuel
- Pairing Crypto Mining With Green Hydrogen Offers Clean Energy Boost
- Pushing Back the Limits of Optical Imaging by Processing Trillions of Frames Per Second
- Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry
- The World Is One Step Closer to Secure Quantum Communication on a Global Scale
- A Self-Cleaning Wall Paint
- New All-Liquid Iron Flow Battery for Grid Energy Storage
- Major Environmental Benefits Recycling Gold With Biodiesel
- New Reactor Could Save Millions When Making Ingredients for Plastics and Rubber from Natural Gas
- New Route to Recyclable Polymers from Plants
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Cleaning Up Environmental Contaminants With Quantum Dot Technology
- Recyclable Reagent and Sunlight Convert Carbon Monoxide Into Methanol
- Crawfish Could Transfer Ionic Lithium from Their Environment Into Food Chain
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- Toxic Metal Particles Can Be Present in Cannabis Vapes Even Before the First Use, Study Finds
- Molecular Crystal Motors Move Like Microbes When Exposed to Light
- Spectroscopy and Theory Shed Light on Excitons in Semiconductors
- Sustainable Solution for Wastewater Polluted by Dyes Used in Many Industries