Enhanced Energy Storage Capacity of Graphene Supercapacitors via Solar Heating
Prof. WANG Zhenyang’s research group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has enhanced the energy storage capacity…
Chemistry News
A Better Way To Separate Gases: New Kind of Membrane Works With 1/10 the Energy and Emissions
A new membrane material could make purification of gases significantly more efficient, potentially helping to reduce carbon emissions. Industrial processes for chemical separations, including natural…
Risks of Counterfeit Medications Are Rising: New Technology Could Spot Fakes With a Smartphone App
Edible, fluorescent silk tags can suss out fake medications. Recent developments such as the explosion of online pharmacies and supply chain issues have made it…
Improved Zinc-Air Battery Performance With Solar Power
Prospects to leverage overcoming the limitations of ‘zinc-air batteries’, promising next-generation batteries. Developed bifunctional electrocatalyst with staggered p-n heterojunction applying solar cell/semiconductor interface characteristics. Zinc-air…
Designing Catalysts for Sustainable Fuels Using Electrochemistry
Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the problem of designing catalysts for sustainable fuels. One challenge in…
Environmentally Friendly, Self-Templating Supramolecular Polymer Synthesis
A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable. A polymer that catalyzes its own formation in an environmentally…
MIT Researchers Propose a New Way To Create Synthesizable Molecules
An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers. Chemical engineers and materials…
Revolutionary DNA Nanotechnology Speeds Up Development of Vaccines by More Than One Million Times
Revolutionary tool will meet future pandemics with accelerated response. A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one…
New and Improved Cherry Flavor Thanks to the Petunia Flower
That cherry flavor you enjoy in candy and soda is likely a combination of aromatic and flavor compounds discovered through the study of plants in…
Shaving “Hairs” off Nanocrystals To Improve Next-Gen Displays and Solar Cells
Scientists shave ‘hairs’ off nanocrystals to improve their electronic properties. Breakthrough by UChicago chemists could yield future devices such as next-gen displays and solar cells….
Leap Forward in Genetic Sequencing Will Lead to Improved Personalized Medicine and Understanding of Evolution
In a paper published on March 11, 2022, in Sciences Advances, researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at…
Molecular Photochemistry: Rapid Spin-Flip in Colloidal Nanocrystals To Generate Molecular Triplets
A research group led by Prof. WU Kaifeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed the…
Unique Ingredient – Originally Designed to Embalm Human Bodies – Used To Strengthen Bamboo
Once used to preserve bodies, plastination now strengthens biocomposites. UBC Okanagan researchers have adapted a technique—originally designed to embalm human remains—to strengthen the properties of…
New Enzyme Has Remarkable Capacity To Help Break Down Chemical Building Block of PET Plastic
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global…
Ionic Liquids Make a Splash in Next-Generation Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
Quasi-solid-state-electrodes realize a significant reduction in interfacial resistance. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new quasi-solid-state cathode for solid-state lithium metal batteries, with…
Scientists Discover a New, Sustainable Way To Make Hydrogen for Fuel Cells and Fertilizers
A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable…
Nanostructure Combines Copper, Gold and Silver To Give Carbon Capture and Utilization a Boost
Chemists have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold, and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a chemical reaction whose improved performance…
Bacterial Enzyme Makes New Type of Biocompatible, Biodegradable Polymer
Strings of sugars called polysaccharides are the most abundant biopolymers on Earth. Because of their versatile and environmentally friendly properties, these molecules could eventually replace…
