Chemistry News
March 27, 2025
Top Headlines
Mar. 25, 2025 — Using microorganisms, researchers have successfully developed a new bio-based plastic to replace conventional ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists have for the first time filmed the real-time growth and contraction of Palladium nanoparticles, opening new avenues for utilising and recycling precious metal ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Researchers have developed a molecular system for controlled release of iron. They integrated ferrocene, a molecular sandwich that encloses an iron atom, with a carbon 'nanohoop'. As a result, the system allows for the release of Fe2+ ions upon ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Every year, millions of tires end up in landfills, creating an environmental crisis with far-reaching consequences. In the United States alone, over 274 million tires were scrapped in 2021, with ...
Latest Headlines
updated 11:04pm EDT
Mar. 26, 2025 — Proof-of-concept work uses unique, safe particles to remove microplastics in a single ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Researchers have developed a method to destroy fluorine-containing PFAS (sometimes labelled 'forever chemicals') while recovering their fluorine content for future ...
Mar. 25, 2025 — Deep below the Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within ...
Mar. 24, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous ...
Mar. 21, 2025 — Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking chemical process that could streamline the development of pharmaceutical compounds, chemical building blocks that influence how drugs interact with the ...
Mar. 21, 2025 — Chemists reveal method for differentiating PCET mechanisms -- a key step for steering fundamental energy conversion and redox catalysis ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — A research group has discovered a new technique for improving the electrodes that convert seawater into potable water using oxygen. Their improved ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid ...
Mar. 20, 2025 — Researchers have engineered yeast to efficiently convert methanol into D-lactic acid, a key compound for biodegradable plastics and pharmaceuticals. By optimizing gene and promoter combinations, they ...
Mar. 20, 2025 — Engineers have developed an approach for recycling cement waste into a sustainable, low-carbon alternative that is comparable in performance to the industry ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 20, 2025 — Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — Researchers injected CO2 gas into seawater while applying an electrical current. The process transformed dissolved ions, minerals in seawater into clusters of solid particles. The clusters hold over ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — A novel porous material capable of separating deuterium (D2) from hydrogen (H2) at a temperature of 120 K has been introduced. Notably, this temperature exceeds the liquefaction point of natural gas, ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Scientists have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense potential in material science. ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Biomass can be converted into valuable gases. But in order to control this process, the amount of water vapor has to be measured. This is notoriously hard, because other components of the gas can ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant milestone in low-carbon chemical conversion. In their recent publication in ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers have identified a previously unknown bacterial protein, the structure of which is being used in the design of protein nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — When exposed to high temperatures and pressure, water enters a state in which liquid and gas can no longer be distinguished. For a long time, there has been controversy about how this looks like on a ...
Mar. 14, 2025 — With artificial photosynthesis, humankind could utilize solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists have taken this one step further: They have synthesized a stack of dyes that ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers have created an organic ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Industrial waste gases, long seen as a major contributor to climate change, could soon be captured and repurposed into everyday household products such as shampoo, detergent, and even ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have published a new study that dives deep into nickel-based cathodes, one of the two electrodes that facilitate energy storage in ...
Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Method to Convert Sewage Sludge Into Green Hydrogen and Animal Feed
Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge -- a by-product of wastewater treatment -- into green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have studied a new method to deliver antibiotics, specifically gentamicin, directly into the bladder tissue to better treat UTIs. They did this by creating nanogels combined with a ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Tracking targeted drug delivery is often a challenge due to limitations in the current imaging techniques. A recent study reports a breakthrough imaging technique that allows direct and highly ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how 'excited-state aromaticity' emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Cost, technical performance and environmental impact -- these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Zeolites, crystalline materials widely used in the petrochemical industry, serve as pivotal catalysts in the production of fine chemicals, with aluminium being the source of active sites within ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025
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
- 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
Friday, February 21, 2025
- Breakthrough in High-Performance Oxide-Ion Conductors Using Rubidium
- Novel Method to Synthesize Valuable Fluorinated Drug Compounds
- Perovskite Solar Cells: Thermal Stresses Are the Key to Long-Term Stability
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Chemists Find Greener Path to Making Key Industrial Chemical
- Closing the Recycle Loop: Waste-Derived Nutrients in Liquid Fertilizer
- Promising New Class of Antimalarial Drugs Discovered
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Towards New Battery Tech: Chemists Demonstrate High-Performance Sodium-Ion Cathode
- A New Way to Observe Electrons in Motion
- A Catalytic Two-Step: Transforming Industrial CO2 Into a Renewable Fuel
- New Process Gets Common Rocks to Trap Carbon Rapidly, Cheaply
- Using Light to Activate Treatments in the Right Place
- Novel Carbon-Based Materials to Remove Hazardous 'forever Chemicals' In Water
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle
- Light-Powered Breakthrough Enables Precision Tuning of Quantum Dots
- Selective Combustion Provides Energy-Efficient Alternative to Remove Pollutants from Industrial Processes
Monday, February 17, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- The Molecular Einstein: One Molecule, Endless Patterns
- Solar-Powered Device Captures Carbon Dioxide from Air to Make Sustainable Fuel
- Scientists Discover Mechanism Driving Molecular Network Formation
- Unique Five-Atom Bismuth Ring Synthesized
- Engineers Discover Key Barrier to Longer-Lasting Batteries
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Worm Surface Chemistry Reveals Secrets to Their Development and Survival
- Mirror, Mirror Trap the Light: Measuring Invisible Light Waves Via Electro-Optic Cavities
- The Next-Generation Solar Cell Is Fully Recyclable
- Research Finds That Certain Packaging Materials Can Show 70% Lower Emissions Than Alternatives
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Engineering Biological Reaction Crucibles to Rapidly Produce Proteins
- Breast Cancer Treatment Advances With Light-Activated 'smart Bomb'
- Breakthrough in Click Chemistry: Innovative Method Revolutionizes Drug Development
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Examining the Potential Environmental Effects of Mining the World's Largest Lithium Deposit
- Nanoscale Tin Catalyst Discovery Paves the Way for Sustainable CO2 Conversion
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Researchers Achieve Total Synthesis of Ibogaine
- Novel 'living' Biomaterial Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine
- A New Way to Detect Inflammation
- Recycling the Unrecyclable: Reclaiming Materials from Epoxy Resins and Composites
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Using Sugars from Peas Speeds Up Sour Beer Brewing
- Researchers Discover Simple Solution to Break Down Forever Chemicals
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Coal Emissions Cost India Millions in Crop Damages
- Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Biosensor for Rare Earth Element Detection
- Nanomaterials Are Emerging as a Powerful Tool for Coastal Oil Spill Cleanup
- New Device Uses Electrically Assisted Wind to Fight Fires
- Discovery of Water Droplet Freezing Bridges Atmospheric Science, Climate Solutions
Monday, February 3, 2025
- Tiny Copper 'flowers' Bloom on Artificial Leaves for Clean Fuel Production
- Printable Molecule-Selective Nanoparticles Enable Mass Production of Wearable Biosensors