Chemistry News
April 15, 2024
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Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a mass synthesis process for sodium-containing sulfides. Mass synthesis of electrolytes with high conductivity and formability is key to the practical use of all-solid-state sodium batteries, thought to be safer than ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — In a new breakthrough that could revolutionise medical and material engineering, scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind molecular device that controls the release of multiple small molecules ...
Apr. 9, 2024 — Wirelessly connected devices perform an expanding array of applications, such as monitoring the condition of machinery and remote sensing in agricultural settings. These applications hold much potential for improving the efficiency, but how do you ...
Apr. 9, 2024 — Scientists are using computer simulations and laboratory experiments to see if depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs can be used for storing carbon-free hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen is an important clean fuel: It can be made by splitting water using ...
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Apr. 3, 2024 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking advancement in battery technology, developing a novel cathode material for rechargeable magnesium batteries ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — New research is shedding light on one barrier to a clean energy future: corrosion. Using nanoscale imaging techniques, researchers have captured high-resolution videos of tiny crystals of ruthenium ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Chemists show that a machine-based method prevents widespread 'bias' in chemical ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to improve the energy efficiency of carbon conversion, using waste material from pulp and paper production. The technique they've pioneered not ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Scientists have developed an automated workflow that could accelerate the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and other useful products. The new automated approach could analyze chemical reactions ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — The active ingredient in many drugs is what's known as a small molecule: bigger than water, much smaller than an antibody and mainly made of carbon. It's tough, however, to make these molecules if ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — A team has developed a method for simultaneous detection of multiple disease-causing bacterial species within one hour using a handheld ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — Chemical biologists design an early 'proof-of-concept' vaccine that could lead to the first effective treatment of xylazine overdose in ...
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Apr. 11, 2024 — While there's no regulation in the U.S. for what's in organic shampoos, they tend to contain ingredients perceived as safe or environmentally friendly. However, these 'clean' ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have achieved a groundbreaking advancement in catalyst ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — Researchers have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — Choosing paint for your home brings a lot of options: What kind of paint, what type of finish and what color? Water-based paints have emerged as 'greener' and less smelly than solvent-based ...
Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers are using semiconductors to harvest and convert the sun's energy into high-energy compounds that have the potential to produce environmentally-friendly ...
Apr. 1, 2024 — Among the many chemicals we use every day, ammonia is one of the worst for the atmosphere. The nitrogen-based chemical used in fertilizer, dyes, explosives and many other products ranks second only ...
Apr. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed physics-based guidelines that will benefit host-guest intercalated materials research. By using only two guest properties and eight host-derived descriptors, they correctly ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — Analysing the diversity of organic compounds dissolved in freshwater provides a reliable measure of ecosystem health, say ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — A breakthrough in sustainable molecular transformations has been announced. Chemists have developed an important way to harness the power of visible light to drive chemical processes with greater ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors. Their newly developed biomimetic olfactory ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — New multidisciplinary research could lead to more efficient televisions, computer screens and ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers have developed an organic photovoltaic film that is both waterproof and flexible, allowing a solar cell to be put onto clothes and still function correctly after being rained on or even ...
Mar. 26, 2024 — High-power lasers are often used to modify polymer surfaces to make high-tech biomedical products, electronics and data storage components. Now researchers have discovered a light-responsive, ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Pairing cryptocurrency mining -- notable for its outsize consumption of carbon-based fuel -- with green hydrogen could provide the foundation for wider deployment of renewable energy, such as solar ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Pushing for a higher speed isn't just for athletes. Researchers, too, can achieve such feats with their discoveries. A new device called SCARF (for swept-coded aperture real-time ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent article, expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Researchers have brought together two Nobel prize-winning research concepts to advance the field of quantum communication. Scientists can now efficiently produce nearly perfect entangled photon pairs ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — Beautiful white wall paint does not stay beautiful and white forever. Often, various substances from the air accumulate on its surface. This can be a desired effect because it makes the air cleaner ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — A new iron-based aqueous flow battery shows promise for grid energy storage ...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 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
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Harnessing Hydrogen at Life's Origin
- Using Light to Produce Medication and Plastics More Efficiently
- Sustainable Plastics from Agricultural Waste
- Fast-Charging Lithium-Sulphur Batteries on the Horizon
Friday, March 15, 2024
- Breakthrough in Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
- Printed Polymer Allows Researchers to Explore Chirality and Spin Interactions at Room Temperature
- Revolutionary Method Developed for Mass-Producing Polymer Solid Electrolytes
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Revolutionary Chronic Wound Treatment Could Help Millions
- Molecular Simulations of Ammonia Mixtures Support Search for Renewable Fuels
- New High-Performance Solar Cell Material
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- A Simple and Robust Experimental Process for Protein Engineering
- Batteries for Airborne Electric Vehicles That Take Off and Land Vertically
- Spiral Wrappers Switch Nanotubes from Conductors to Semiconductors and Back
Monday, March 11, 2024
- Cicadas' Unique Urination Unlocks New Understanding of Fluid Dynamics
- Design Rules and Synthesis of Quantum Memory Candidates
- Combined Microscopy Technique Catches Light-Driven Polymers in the Act
Friday, March 8, 2024
- How Surface Roughness Influences the Adhesion of Soft Materials
- Tiny Wireless Light Bulbs for Biomedical Applications
- Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life
- A Better Handle on the Emissions Budget for the Paris Climate Targets
- Balancing Training Data and Human Knowledge Makes AI Act More Like a Scientist
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- Pinging Pipes Could Help to Identify Lead Water Lines Without Excavation
- Researchers Develop New Machine Learning Method for Modeling of Chemical Reactions
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Viscose Manufactured Solely from Recycled Materials
- Breakthrough Research Enables High-Density Hydrogen Storage for Future Energy Systems
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Key Advance Toward Removing Common Herbicide from Groundwater
- Aluminum Nanoparticles Make Tunable Green Catalysts
- Harmful 'forever Chemicals' Removed from Water With New Electrocatalysis Method
- Using Light to Precisely Control Single-Molecule Devices
- A New Theoretical Development Clarifies Water's Electronic Structure
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
- Researchers Create Coating Solution for Safer Food Storage
- AI-Enabled Atomic Robotic Probe to Advance Quantum Material Manufacturing
- It's Not Only Opposites That Attract -- New Study Shows Like-Charged Particles Can Come Together
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Better Neutron Mirrors Can Reveal the Inner Secrets of Matter
- Researchers Improve the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
- A Bright Idea for Recycling Rare-Earth Phosphors from Used Fluorescent Bulbs
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- How Molecular 'handedness' Emerged in Early Biology
- Researchers Develop Novel Method to Photosynthesize Hydrogen Peroxide Using Water and Air
- Light Stimulates a New Twist for Synthetic Chemistry
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- New Disease Testing Component Facilitates Lower-Cost Diagnostics
- Imaging Grain Boundaries That Impede Lithium-Ion Migration in Solid-State Batteries
- AI-Driven Lab Speeds Catalysis Research
- Low-Temperature Plasma Used to Remove E. Coli from Hydroponically Grown Crops
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Black Carbon Sensor Could Fill Massive Monitoring Gaps
- The Mutual Neutralization of Hydronium and Hydroxide
Friday, February 23, 2024
- UBC Okanagan Researchers Look to the Past to Improve Construction Sustainability
- Using Mussels and Silkworm Cocoons to Stop Organ Bleeding
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Chemists Synthesize Unique Anticancer Molecules Using Novel Approach
- A New Vibrant Blue Pottery Pigment With Less Cobalt
- Graphene Research: Numerous Products, No Acute Dangers Found by Study
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- An Environmentally Friendly Way to Turn Seafood Waste Into Value-Added Products
- Revolutionary Breakthrough in Solar Energy: Most Efficient QD Solar Cells
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Engineering a Coating for Disease-Free Produce
- It's the Spin That Makes the Difference
- Physicists Develop More Efficient Solar Cell
- Plastic Recycling With a Protein Anchor
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Discovery of New Li Ion Conductor Unlocks New Direction for Sustainable Batteries
- First-Ever Atomic Freeze-Frame of Liquid Water
- With Just a Little Electricity, Researchers Boost Common Catalytic Reactions
- Trapping Sulfate to Benefit Health, Industry and Waterways
- Do AI-Driven Chemistry Labs Actually Work? New Metrics Promise Answers