Inorganic Chemistry News
February 9, 2025
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Feb. 5, 2025 Scientists have developed a versatile platform with an electrically controlled nano-gate that can be used for applications in sensing, chemical synthesis, memristors, and neuromorphic computing. The nano-gate, which consists of a pore in a membrane, ...
Feb. 6, 2025 Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a method to detect inflammation using antibodies, potentially leading to ...
Feb. 6, 2025 Researchers have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ...
Feb. 6, 2025 A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to ...
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Feb. 6, 2025 Epoxy resins are coatings and adhesives used in a broad range of familiar applications, such as construction, engineering and manufacturing. However, ...
Feb. 3, 2025 Through a multi-university collaboration, researchers have discovered a new, solid lubricating mechanism that can reduce friction in machinery at extremely high temperatures, well beyond the ...
Feb. 3, 2025 Tiny copper 'nano-flowers' have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and ...
Jan. 30, 2025 By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with ...
Jan. 30, 2025 The electronics of the future can be made even smaller and more efficient by getting more memory cells to fit in less space. One way to achieve this is by adding the noble gas xenon when ...
Jan. 30, 2025 A research group has developed new advanced light-controlled tools that enable precise control of proteins in real time in living cells. This groundbreaking research opens doors to new methods for ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Muon spin rotation ( SR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique used to study the behavior of materials at the atomic level. In this study, researchers employed SR to examine phosphorus-containing ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Researchers have developed a recyclable alternative to a durable class of plastics used for items like car tires, replacement hip joints and bowling ...
Jan. 29, 2025 Scientists have made an advancement in the field of electrocatalysis. Their latest research sheds light on how catalysts can stay in unanticipated forms during the process of nitrate reduction. The ...
Jan. 29, 2025 Phosphorus is a critical raw material that should be recycled more efficiently. There is also a need for more environmentally friendly production methods for organic phosphorus compounds. A recently ...
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Jan. 29, 2025 A new technique to trap clusters of platinum atoms in nanoscale islands could lead to more efficient catalysts for the chemical ...
Jan. 29, 2025 Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our growing amounts of discarded plastics, paper and food waste, according to new ...
Jan. 29, 2025 This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...
Jan. 29, 2025 Researchers present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling poly-cotton textile waste. The process starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated ...
Jan. 28, 2025 Researchers were able to demonstrate for the first time that non-covalent bonds between spin centers are also capable of producing quartet states through spin mixing. Supramolecular chemistry is thus ...
Jan. 28, 2025 In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group has developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent properties. The ...
Jan. 28, 2025 An environmentally-friendly preparation of plant material from pine could serve as a substitute for petroleum-based chemicals in polyurethane foams. The innovation could lead to more environmentally ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Lithium-air batteries have the potential to outstrip conventional lithium-ion batteries by storing significantly more energy at the same weight. However, their high-performance values have thus far ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Effective management of phosphorus is needed to curb the rise of harmful algal blooms. Few studies have explored how algal biomass, especially blue-green algae, can be used to create materials that ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Researchers have developed a new chemical tool that could help lower the cost of prescription medications. The tool, called AshPhos, is a ligand, or molecule, that makes it easier to create special ...
Jan. 24, 2025 Researchers have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. The team describes how they made nanomaterials with ...
Jan. 23, 2025 A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking ...
Jan. 23, 2025 Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...
Jan. 23, 2025 Researchers have shown for the first time that heat transfer in the form of infrared radiation can influence chemical reactions more strongly than traditional convection and conduction ...
Jan. 22, 2025 Researchers have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure. The study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer -- trilayer ...
Jan. 22, 2025 Unraveling the chemical processes in soot particle filters reveals new ways to produce synthetic ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Scientists are unlocking the secrets of halide perovskites -- a material that's poised to reshape our future by bringing us closer to a new age of energy-efficient optoelectronics. Two physics ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Experiments have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a solid. The new material, known as PAM ...
Jan. 21, 2025 An interdisciplinary team has developed a groundbreaking technology that addresses key limitations in clean hydrogen production using microwaves. They have also successfully elucidated the underlying ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, as these metals can be expensive and less abundant, scientists are ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Creating Nanoislands for Better Platinum Catalysts
- Chemical Looping Turns Environmental Waste Into Fuel
- Common Plastic Pigment Promotes Depolymerization
- Research Leads to Viable Solution for Polycotton Textile Waste Recycling
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- New Avenues in Quantum Research: Supramolecular Qubit Candidates Detected
- Structural Color Shields: Water Repellent Coatings
- Plant-Based Substitute for Fossil Fuels Developed for Plastic Foams
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Progress Toward a New Generation of Rechargeable Batteries
- New Weapon Against Harmful Algal Blooms
- Researchers Invent a New Tool to Help Lower the Cost of Tomorrow's Medicine
Friday, January 24, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Bacteria Found to Eat Forever Chemicals -- And Even Some of Their Toxic Byproducts
- Terahertz Pulses Induce Chirality in a Non-Chiral Crystal
- Using Infrared Heat Transfer to Modify Chemical Reactions
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- New Research Uncovers Exotic Electron Crystal in Graphene
- From Soot Particle Filters to Renewable Fuels
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Scientists Harness the Power of 'layered' Crystals for Energy Innovation
- Reimagining Chain Mail
- Clean Hydrogen in Minutes: Microwaves Deliver Clean Energy Faster
- New Ceramic Catalyst Uses Sodium and Boron to Drive Sustainable Industrial Reactions
- We Can Make Fertilizer More Efficiently Under the Surface of the Earth
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Technology for Oxidizing Atmospheric Methane Won't Help the Climate
- Polymer Editing Can Upcycle Waste Into Higher-Performance Plastics
Thursday, January 16, 2025
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Diamond Continues to Shine: New Properties Discovered in Diamond Semiconductors
- Uncurling a Single DNA Molecule and Gluing It Down Helps Sharpen Images
Monday, January 13, 2025
Friday, January 10, 2025
- New Insights Into Acoustic Bubbles Give Boost to Future Applications
- Harnessing Corrosion: Scientists Transform Dealloying Into Sustainable Lightweight Alloy Design
- Harnessing Microwave Flow Reaction to Convert Biomass Into Useful Sugars
- Revealing the 'true Colors' Of a Single-Atom Layer of Metal Alloys
- Breakthrough Study Reveals the Secrets Behind Cordierite's Anomalous Thermal Expansion
Thursday, January 9, 2025
- Pioneering New Tool Will Spur Advances in Catalysis
- Scientists Fuel Sustainable Future With Catalyst for Hydrogen from Ammonia
- Chemists Unlock the Potential of Ketone and Ester Molecules, Paving the Way for Greener and More Efficient Drug Development
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
- Synthetic Chemicals and Chemical Products Require a New Regulatory and Legal Approach to Safeguard Children's Health
- Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology
- Moving in Sync, Slowly, in Glassy Liquids
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Friday, January 3, 2025
- From Carbon Dioxide to Acetaldehyde: Toward Greener Industrial Chemistry
- New Nanocrystal Material a Key Step Toward Faster, More Energy-Efficient Computing
Thursday, January 2, 2025
- Water Treatment: Catching Steroid Hormones With Nanotubes
- Chemists Create Eco-Friendly Method to Make Chlorine-Based Materials for Drugs and Chemicals
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
- New Molecule-Creation Method a 'powerful Tool' To Accelerate Drug Synthesis and Discovery
- Engineering Researchers Develop Revolutionary Diamond Fabrication Technology
- Breathing New Life Into Technology: New Way of Separating Oxygen from Argon
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Step Forward in Generating Solar-Powered Hydrogen
- Hyperspectral Imaging Lidar System Achieves Remote Plastic Identification
Monday, December 16, 2024
- Exploring Excited State Dynamics: Advancements in Fluorescence and Material Design
- Unlocking the Journey of Gold Through Magmatic Fluids
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- New Chemical Structures Show Vastly Improved Carbon Capture Ability
- Smallest Molecular Machine: Reversible Sliding Motion in Ammonium-Linked Ferrocene
- Molecular Interactions: Spirals and Waves
- Researchers Develop New Methods to Generate and Improve Magnetism of 2D Materials
- Researchers Uncover Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Spin Liquids
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Universal Barcodes Unlock Fast-Paced Small Molecule Synthesis
- A New, More Economical and Sustainable Material Is Designed That Uses Sunlight to Decontaminate the Air
- Researchers Harness Copper Versatility to Enable Control of CO2 Reduction Products
- 'Superman' Bacteria Offer a Sustainable Boost to Chemical Production
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction Observed for First Time
- Scientists Develop Coating for Enhanced Thermal Imaging Through Hot Windows
- A Greener, Cleaner Way to Extract Cobalt from 'junk' Materials
- Research Shows Feasting Fungi Could Revolutionize Carbon-Fiber Recycling
- Advancing the Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Gold Monolayers
- New Concept for Sustainable Fuel Cell Polymer Electrolytes Overcomes Barriers in High-Temperature, Low-Humidity Use, Advancing Net-Zero Carbon Goals
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Nature Inspires Self-Assembling Helical Polymer
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Faster Organic Phosphorescence for Better Display Tech
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Less Is More: Why an Economical Iridium Catalyst Works So Well
- Neem Seed Extract Improves Effectiveness of Pesticide
- New Shape-Changing Polymer Developed
- New Biodegradable Material to Replace Certain Microplastics
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Study Explores Risks of Chemical Exposure from Household Products
- How Non-Toxic and Efficient Solar Cells Can Be Produced
- A Catalyst Can Turn Methane Into Something Useful
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Controlling Matter at the Atomic Level
- Chemical Structure's Carbon Capture Ability Doubled
- Dynamics of Structural Transformation for Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases
Monday, December 2, 2024
- DNA Engineered to Mimic Biological Catch Bonds
- Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics
- Ultrafast Dissociation of Molecules Studied at BESSY II
- New Laser Technique Achieves Atomic-Scale Precision on Diamond Surfaces
- Artificial Photosynthesis Learned from Nature: Successfully Developed New Solar Hydrogen Production Technology
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- In Major Materials Breakthrough, Team Solves a Nearly 200-Year-Old Challenge in Polymers
- Making a Difference: Efficient Water Harvesting from Air Possible
- Drug Research: Decoding the Structure of Nano 'gene Ferries'
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- It Might Be Wrecking the Climate, but Carbon Dioxide Is Actually Good for Your Cells
- Improved Catalyst Turns Harmful Greenhouse Gases Into Cleaner Fuels, Chemical Feedstocks
- First Successful Synthesis of Naphthocyclinones Since Their Discovery 50 Years Ago