Chemistry News
April 30, 2025
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Apr. 28, 2025 — Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures. In exploring how crystals form, the researchers ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost process, researchers strengthened the wood at the ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a significant step toward the widespread adoption ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue this precise control should be applied to optimize ...
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Apr. 24, 2025 — A study describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.). It has the potential to significantly ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers developed a machine-learning model that can predict the structures of transition states of chemical reactions in less than a second, with high accuracy. Their model could make it easier ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Despite advances in wastewater treatment, tiny plastic particles called microplastics are still slipping through, posing potential health and environmental hazards, according to new ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Based on fundamental research, a new startup is upending decades-old approaches for the way the world extracts lithium and other ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A research team develops high-power, high-energy-density anode using nano-sized tin particles and hard ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Imagine tiny building toy pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical 'hooks' to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called ...
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Apr. 16, 2025 — Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Switching from diesel to electric trains dramatically improved the air quality aboard the San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrain commuter rail line, reducing riders' exposure to the carcinogen ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have developed a machine learning workflow to optimize the output force of photo-actuated organic crystals. Using LASSO regression to identify key molecular substructures and Bayesian ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Identifying a key protein's role could improve the common mental health medications and point to new treatments for inflammation-related diseases, a medicinal chemist ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Researchers have developed a pioneering, sustainable method for producing cadmium-based quantum dots (QDs) in water using a biocompatible chalcogen source. This fully aqueous, continuous flow process ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — A team of scientists has directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level. In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and shake during a chemical reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Scientists have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide. The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and footprint of carbon ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Rsearchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by the skin. By analyzing these gases, the device offers an entirely new way to assess skin health, ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Preparing catalysts by sending hot, steamy car exhaust over them could improve their efficiency and reduce the amount of rare and expensive metals required in vehicle catalytic converters and many ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — 'Forever chemicals' are everywhere. But only a handful have been evaluated for potentially toxic effects. Researchers think there may be a faster, cheaper way to figure out which ones might ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A new way to watch catalytic reactions happen at the molecular level in real time could lead to better fundamental understanding and planning of the important reactions used in countless ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers have worked to optimize the use of coffee grounds in pour-over coffee. They recommend pouring from as high as possible while still maintaining the water's flow. In particular, the ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — A chemical reaction that's vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — A research team is developing a 3D-printed skin imitation equipped with living cells in order to test nanoparticles from cosmetics without animal ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — A unique carbon capture technology could offer a more cost-effective way to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and turn it into clean, synthetic ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Living Fungus-Based Building Material Repairs Itself for Over a Month
- Study Finds Dramatic Boost in Air Quality from Electrifying Railways
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Machine Learning Unlocks Superior Performance in Light-Driven Organic Crystals
- Making Desalination More Eco-Friendly: New Membranes Could Help Eliminate Brine Waste
Monday, April 14, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Reshaping Quantum Dots Production Through Continuous Flow and Sustainable Technologies
- Researchers Watch a Live Catalytic Event in Real Time
- Engineered Bacteria Emit Signals That Can Be Spotted from a Distance
- Scalable Graphene Membranes: A Leap for Carbon Capture
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Your Skin Is Breathing: New Wearable Device Can Measure It
- Serendipitous Discovery Could Lead to More Efficient Catalysts
- 'Forever Chemicals' Are Everywhere: Most of Their Health Effects Are Unknown
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
- Stronger Coffee With Fewer Coffee Beans
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Discover Why Plastic Sheds Dangerous Fragments
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Researchers Improve Chemical Reaction That Underpins Products from Foods to Fuels
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- 3-D Printed Skin to Replace Animal Testing
- Carbon Capture Technology to Produce Clean Fuel from Air
- Electrochemical Method Supports Nitrogen Circular Economy
- Researchers Recycle Wind Turbine Blade Materials to Make Improved Plastics
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
- An Answer to Green Energy in Hydrogen-Generating Marine Microbes
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Study Tracks Chromium Chemistry in Irradiated Molten Salts
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Diagnosing a Dud May Lead to a Better Battery
- We Know Nanoplastics Are a Threat -- This New Tool Can Help Us Figure out Just How Bad They Are
Monday, March 31, 2025
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- A Cleaner Future for Tires: Scientists Pioneer Chemical Process to Repurpose Rubber Waste
- Cleaning Microplastics
- Scientists Discovered Chemical Oscillations in Palladium Nanoparticles, Paving the Way for Recycling Precious Metal Catalysts
- Cleverly Designed Carbon Nanohoop Enables Controlled Release of Iron
- A New Method to Recycle Fluoride from Long-Lived PFAS Chemicals
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Fluorescent Caves Could Explain How Life Persists in Extraterrestrial Environments
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
Monday, March 24, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
- Groundbreaking Light-Driven Method to Create Key Drug Compounds
- Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Deciphered With High Pressure
- Sea Water Purification Technique Outperforms Commonly Used Materials, Even Activated Carbon
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Green Recipe: Engineered Yeast Boosts D-Lactic Acid Production
- Recycled Cements Drive Down Emissions Without Slacking on Strength
- Producing Nuclear Fusion Fuel Is Banned in the US for Being Too Toxic, but These Researchers Found an Alternative
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
- New Material for Efficient Separation of Deuterium at Elevated Temperatures
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- 'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images
- Lords of the Molecular Rings: An Innovative Shortcut to High-Performance Organic Materials
- Quantum Light Source for Eco-Friendly Production of Biogas
- To Overcome Antibiotic Resistance, New Research Says to Let It Flow
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Newly Identified Bacterial Protein Helps Design Cancer Drug Delivery System
- Structure of Supercritical Water Decoded
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics
- How Industrial Waste Gases Could Replace Fossil Fuels in Everyday Consumer Products
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- A Path to Safer, High-Energy Electric Vehicle Batteries
- Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Method to Convert Sewage Sludge Into Green Hydrogen and Animal Feed
- Promising New Research Shows Potential to Cure Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
- Lighting the Way: How Activated Gold Reveals Drug Movement in the Body
- Catching Aromaticity in the Act: Direct Real-Time Tracking of How 'excited-State Aromaticity' Drives Molecular Shape Changes
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Cheap and Environmentally Friendly -- The Next Generation LEDs May Soon Be Here
- Researchers Unveil Comprehensive Zeolite Structures, Advancing Development of Catalysts for Petrochemical and Renewable Energy
- Plastic Recycling Gets a Breath of Fresh Air
- Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule 'berkelocene'
Monday, March 10, 2025
- The Two Faces of Liquid Water
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
- 'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- New 'one-Pot' Technique a Breakthrough for Material Synthesis
- Researchers Reveal Nitrogen's Dominant Role in Global Organic Aerosol Absorption
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery
- A Method to Purify Proteins With Light: Gentler and More Efficient Than Previous Procedures
- New Discovery Could 'revolutionize Carbon Fiber Industry'
- For Better Quantum Sensing, Go With the Flow
- Controlling Conformational Changes in Protein Aromatic Side Chains
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics
- Chemistry: Triple Bond Formed Between Boron and Carbon for the First Time
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Breakthrough Tool to Enhance Precision in Cold-Temperature Cancer Surgery
- Breaking the Surface: How Damage Reshapes Ripples in Graphene
- New Biosensor Can Detect Airborne Bird Flu in Under 5 Minutes
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Quantum Interference in Molecule-Surface Collisions
- Turning Waste Organic Compound Into Useful Pharmaceuticals and Energy Using a Technique Inspired by Photosynthesis
- A Clear Game-Changer: Water-Repellent Glass Breaks New Ground
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Are Our Refrigerants Environmentally Safe? The Lingering Questions About the Chemicals Keeping Us Cool
- 'Fluorescent Phoenix' Discovered With Persistence Rivaling Marie Curie's
- Environmental Impact of Unexploded Ordnance in the Baltic Sea
- Some Fuel Lodges in the Inner Walls of Fusion Vessels: Researchers Now Have a Better Idea of How Much
- New Method Developed to Dramatically Enhance Bioelectronic Sensors
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Modifying Graphene With Plasma to Produce Better Gas Sensors
- From Defect to High-Tech Material
- Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy
- From Waste to Wonder: Revolutionary Green Grout for Sustainable Construction Practices
- Mimicking Shark Skin to Create Clean Cutting Boards