Inorganic Chemistry News
July 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 — Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. The reaction can be sped up by adding ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a material that shows a remarkable ability to convert sunlight and water into clean ...
July 22, 2024 — In recent years, batteries have become ubiquitous in consumers' daily lives. However, existing commercial battery technologies, which use liquid electrolytes and carbonaceous anodes, have certain ...
July 22, 2024 — Two-dimensional (2D) materials have atomic-level thickness and excellent mechanical and physical properties, with broad application prospects in fields such as semiconductors, flexible devices, and ...
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July 25, 2024 — Researchers are proposing a new way to curb industrial emissions, by tapping into the 'atomic intelligence' of liquid metals to deliver greener and more sustainable chemical ...
July 24, 2024 — A research team is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ion batteries amid their increasing ...
July 24, 2024 — The reactivity of zirconium on silicon nitride enhances the conversion of propane into propylene, a key commodity chemical needed to make ...
July 23, 2024 — Researchers have successfully made super-heavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: ...
July 23, 2024 — A room-temperature method to decompose perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) using visible LED light offers a promising solution for sustainable fluorine recycling and PFAS ...
July 23, 2024 — Chemists have developed a rapid electrothermal mineralization (REM) process, which in seconds can remediate the accumulation of synthetic chemicals ...
July 22, 2024 — Scientists are bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true ...
July 19, 2024 — A new study describes a chemical reaction that can convert Styrofoam into a high-value conducting polymer known as PEDOT:PSS. Researchers also noted that the upgraded plastic waste can be ...
July 15, 2024 — Rechargeable solid-state lithium batteries are an emerging technology that could someday power cell phones and laptops for days with a single charge. ...
July 19, 2024 — Chemists have been working to synthesize high-value materials from waste molecules for ...
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July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed soft, stretchable 'jelly batteries' that could be used for wearable devices or soft robotics, or even implanted in the brain to deliver drugs or treat conditions ...
July 17, 2024 — An international team of physicists has proven new theorems in quantum mechanics that describe the 'energy landscapes' of collections of quantum particles. Their work addresses decades-old ...
July 16, 2024 — Carbon capture is a promising approach for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Different materials have been used to capture CO2 from industrial exhaust gases. Scientists developed hybrid CO2 ...
July 16, 2024 — Physicists are developing quantum microscopy which enables them for the first time to record the movement of electrons at the atomic level with both extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. ...
July 15, 2024 — This new concept could allow the needs of previously separate industries to be combined: the production of hydrogen and the production of ...
July 15, 2024 — Researchers grew crystals containing actinium and illuminated them with X-rays to learn how the radioactive metal binds with other elements. That information could help design better cancer ...
July 15, 2024 — Scientists have created a computer program that 'paints' the structure of molecules in the style of famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian. Researchers are opening eyes and minds to the beauty ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have successfully developed an environmentally friendly, microspherical fluorescent material primarily made from citric acid. These microbeads emit various colors of light depending on ...
July 12, 2024 — Scientists have developed a tiny 'claw machine' that is able to pick up and drop a marble-sized ball in response to exposure to chemical vapors. The findings point to a technique that can ...
July 12, 2024 — By constructing hexagonal metallic-mean approximants of the honeycomb lattice, scientists have linked incommensurately modulated structures and quasicrystals, two classes of aperiodic crystals. They ...
July 10, 2024 — Using an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to ...
July 10, 2024 — Solid-state batteries have several advantages: they can store more energy and are safer than batteries with liquid electrolytes. However, they do not last as long and their capacity decreases with ...
July 9, 2024 — Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, quantum dots have a wide variety of applications ranging from displays and LED lights to chemical reaction catalysis and bioimaging. These semiconductor ...
July 9, 2024 — A small molecule that naturally serves as a binding site for metals in enzymes also proves useful for separating certain rare earth metals from each other. In a proof of concept, the process extracts ...
July 9, 2024 — Ice in nature is surrounded by liquid most of the time, and therefore it is key to understand how ice and liquid interact. A new study has now directly observe the precise shape of ice at the ...
July 8, 2024 — Is it possible to create a new class of materials from very different substances using the 'one-pot synthesis' approach? Chemists explain how they enable the synthesis of such novel ...
July 8, 2024 — Immobilizing small synthetic molecules inside protein crystals proves to be a promising avenue for studying intermediate compounds formed during chemical reactions, scientists report. By integrating ...
July 5, 2024 — Chemists have develop innovative ionic liquid synthesis and purification ...
July 3, 2024 — A research team has implemented a novel method to achieve epitaxial growth of 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1 nm. The group applied this process to develop a new structure for 2D ...
July 3, 2024 — Research could help drug developers improve the safety profiles of medications and reduce side ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Soft, Stretchy 'jelly Batteries' Inspired by Electric Eels
- Physicists Develop New Theory Describing the Energy Landscape Formed When Quantum Particles Gather Together
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Capturing Carbon With Energy-Efficient Sodium Carbonate-Nanocarbon Hybrid Material
- Breakthrough in Quantum Microscopy: Researchers Are Making Electrons Visible in Slow Motion
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Producing Hydrogen and Fertilizer at the Same Time
- Crystals from Radioactive Metal Actinium
- Scientists Create Computer Program That 'paints' The Structure of Molecules in the Style of Piet Mondrian
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Microbeads With Adaptable Fluorescent Colors from Visible Light to Near-Infrared
- A Chemical Claw Machine Bends and Stretches When Exposed to Vapors
- Aperiodic Approximants for Relating Quasicrystals and Modulated Structures
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- High-Speed Electron Camera Uncovers a New 'light-Twisting' Behavior in an Ultrathin Material
- BESSY II Shows How Solid-State Batteries Degrade
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Moving from the Visible to the Infrared: Developing High Quality Nanocrystals
- Mining Rare Earth Metals from Electronic Waste
- It Takes a Cool Microscope and Antifreeze to Really Look at Ice
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Chemistry Inspired by One-Pot Cooking
- Visualizing Short-Lived Intermediate Compounds Produced During Chemical Reactions
Friday, July 5, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Scientists Discover Way to 'grow' Sub-Nanometer Sized Transistors
- Chemists Synthesize an Improved Building Block for Medicines
- Mechanism of Bio-Inspired Control of Liquid Flow
- Mapping the Surfaces of MXenes, Atom by Atom, Reveals New Potential for the 2D Materials
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- Using Visible Light to Make Pharmaceutical Building Blocks
- Nuclear Spectroscopy Breakthrough Could Rewrite the Fundamental Constants of Nature
- Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control from Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors
Monday, July 1, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from CO2: Ten Experiments in Parallel
- New Materials: Synthetic Pathway for Promising Nitride Compounds Discovered
- Aromatic Compounds: A Ring Made Up Solely of Metal Atoms
- Scientists Use Computational Modeling to Guide a Difficult Chemical Synthesis
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Solar Technology: Innovative Light-Harvesting System Works Very Efficiently
- A New Study Highlights Potential of Ultrafast Laser Processing for Next-Gen Devices
- An Optical Lens That Senses Gas
- Towards Non-Toxic Antifouling Agents: A Novel Method for Total Synthesis of Scabrolide F
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Custom-Made Molecules Designed to Be Invisible While Absorbing Near-Infrared Light
- MXenes for Energy Storage
- Novel Method for Measuring Nano/microplastic Concentrations in Soil Using Spectroscopy
- Golden Ball Mills as Green Catalysts
- Reduction of Esters by a Novel Photocatalyst
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- 3D-Printed Mini-Actuators Can Move Small Soft Robots, Lock Them Into New Shapes
- Semiconductor Doping and Electronic Devices: Heating Gallium Nitride and Magnesium Forms Superlattice
- Looking for a New Battery Platform? Focus on the Essentials
Monday, June 10, 2024
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A New Way of Designing Auxetic Materials
- Towards Next-Gen Functional Materials: Direct Observation of Electron Transfer in Solids
- Observing Ultrafast Photoinduced Dynamics in a Halogen-Bonded Supramolecular System
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Altered Carbon Points Toward Sustainable Manufacturing
- Transition-Metal-Free Zeolite Catalyst for Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol
- Scientists Develop 'x-Ray Vision' Technique to See Inside Crystals
Friday, May 31, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Researchers Create Materials With Unique Combo of Stiffness, Thermal Insulation
- A Novel Multifunctional Catalyst Turns Methane Into Valuable Hydrocarbons
- Polymeric Films Protect Anodes from Sulfide Solid Electrolytes
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Performance of Eco-Friendly Cooling Applications Enhanced
- How a Tiny Device Could Lead to Big Physics Discoveries and Better Lasers
Friday, May 24, 2024
- Controlling Water, Transforming Greenhouse Gases
- More Than Spins: Exploring Uncharted Territory in Quantum Devices
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- New Milestone for Lithium Metal Batteries
- Shedding Light on the Chemical Enigma of Sulfur Trioxide in the Atmosphere
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Researchers Design New Metal-Free Porous Framework Materials
- Promethium Bound: Rare Earth Element's Secrets Exposed
- Under Extreme Impacts, Metals Get Stronger When Heated, Study Finds
- New Polystyrene Recycling Process Could Be World's First to Be Both Economical and Energy-Efficient
- Ethylene from CO2: Building-Kit Catalyst
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- New Crystal Production Method Could Enhance Quantum Computers and Electronics
- Researchers Introduce Programmable Materials to Help Heal Broken Bones
- An AI Leap Into Chemical Synthesis
Monday, May 20, 2024
- Powering Wearable Devices With High-Performing Carbon Nanotube Yarns
- By Listening, Scientists Learn How a Protein Folds
- Seeking Stronger Steel, Systematic Look at 120 Combinations of Alloy Elements Provides Clues
- Expanding on the Fundamental Principles of Liquid Movement
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Magnetic Imprint on Deconfined Nuclear Matter
- New Data-Driven Model Rapidly Predicts Dehydrogenation Barriers in Solid-State Materials
- Diamond Glitter: A Play of Colors With Artificial DNA Crystals
Thursday, May 16, 2024
- Chemists Develop New Method for Making Gamma Chiral Centers on Simple Carboxylic Acids
- Breaking Bonds to Form Bonds: Rethinking the Chemistry of Cations
- Shedding Light on Perovskite Hydrides Using a New Deposition Technique
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- What Fire Ants Can Teach Us About Making Better, Self-Healing Materials
- Next-Generation Sustainable Electronics Are Doped With Air
- Promising New Development in Solar Cell Technology
- Scientists Generate Heat Over 1,000 Degrees Celsius With Solar Power Instead of Fossil Fuel
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Exploring Interface Phenomena for More Durable and Effective Nickel--Tungsten Alloys
- Scientists Create an 'optical Conveyor Belt' For Quasiparticles
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%