Sep. 21, 2023 Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Scientists have now developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of ...
Sep. 19, 2023 Transition metals exchange electrons with supporting ligands to form complexes that facilitate reaction catalysis in several industries, like pharmaceutical production. Both the metal center and the ...
Sep. 13, 2023 A chemist drew inspiration from the natural world, from his experiences scuba diving to studying shellfish in his lab. He has developed a sustainable adhesive system -- an alternative to toxic, ...
Sep. 12, 2023 Physicists begin to shed light on one of the most important questions regarding quantum spin liquids, and they do so by introducing a new phase of ...
Sep. 11, 2023 Researchers discovered a new class of iron-targeting compounds that hamper the proliferation of cultured malignant cells in a laboratory ...
Sep. 11, 2023 A recent article proposes a new way to understand how materials interact with ...
Sep. 11, 2023 A research team has made a groundbreaking advancement in improving the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells, which are gaining significant attention as eco-friendly next-generation energy ...
Sep. 7, 2023 Researchers have developed two closely related polymers that respond differently to high and low temperature thresholds, despite their similar design. The polymer pair could be used in applications ...
Sep. 7, 2023 Patent-pending adhesive formulations developed from fully sustainable, bio-based components establish bonds that grow stronger when underwater or exposed to wet ...
Sep. 7, 2023 Sulfinate esters, a type of organosulfur compounds, are typically synthesized using thiols. However, these substances are difficult to work with due to their unpleasant smell and oxidizability in ...
Sep. 6, 2023 Chemists have extended a powerful molecule-building method -- called C-H activation -- to the broad class of chemicals known as ...
Sep. 6, 2023 Pumping liquids may seem like a solved problem but optimizing the process is still an area of active research. Any pumping application -- from industrial scales to heating systems at home -- would ...
Sep. 5, 2023 Beyond-silicon technology demands ultra-high-performance field-effect transistors (FETs). Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide an ideal material platform, but the device performances such ...
Sep. 4, 2023 Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption. The researchers behind the study believe ...
Aug. 31, 2023 Hydrogen spillover is exactly what it sounds like. Small metal nanoparticles anchored on a thermally stable oxide, like silica, comprise a major class of catalysts, which are substances used to ...
Aug. 31, 2023 Researchers have revealed an innovative approach to track individual molecule dynamics within nanofluidic structures, illuminating their response to molecules in ways never before ...
Aug. 31, 2023 A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships get more ...
Aug. 31, 2023 By controlling the arrangement of multiple inorganic and organic layers within crystals using a novel technique, researchers have shown they can control the energy levels of electrons and holes ...
Aug. 31, 2023 A team of researchers addressed the question: what happens to a Ga-promoted Cu surface under reaction conditions required for the synthesis of methanol? They found complex structural transformations ...
Aug. 31, 2023 Researchers have been able to substantially improve photoclick chemistry. They were able to boost the reactivity of the photoclick compound in the popular PQ-ERA reaction through strategic molecular ...