Solving a Riddle That Would Provide the World With Entirely Clean, Renewable Energy
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have taken a giant stride towards solving a riddle that would provide the world with entirely renewable, clean energy from…
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98% of Plastics Entering the Oceans Go Missing Each Year – Here’s the Likely Culprit
Trillions of plastic fragments are afloat at sea, which cause large “garbage patches” to form in rotating ocean currents called subtropical gyres. As a result,…
Watch This Blacksmith Forge a Sword Using Chemistry
In this episode of American Chemical Society Reactions, they head to Portland, Oregon, to learn how blacksmithing is just as much chemistry as it is…
Coexistence of Ice and Liquid Water Breaks Down at the Nanoscale As Scientists Probe the Limits
How small is the smallest possible particle of ice? It’s not a snowflake, measuring at a whopping fraction of an inch. According to new research…
“Spooky” Quantum Tunneling Observed by Chemists
Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting. A molecule of ammonia, NH3, typically exists as an umbrella shape, with three hydrogen…
Post-Lithium Technology: High-Energy-Density Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries
High-energy-density polymeric cathode for fast-charge sodium- and multivalent-ion batteries. Next-generation batteries will probably see the replacement of lithium ions by more abundant and environmentally benign…
The Fascinating Secret Behind Crystals That Shrink When Heated
Discovery yields new quantitative description of unusual behavior relevant to materials used in electronics, medicine, telecommunications, and more. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
Gamers Accurately Design Folded Proteins As Realistic As Those Created by Experts
The unique ways in which proteins fold dictate their interplay with diseases and medicines, so understanding their twists and turns is key to designing effective…
New Metal-Organic Framework Eliminates Toxic Sulfur Dioxide Gas 99.99999%
An international team has developed a robust material that can selectively take in toxic sulfur dioxide gas at record concentrations and preserve it for use…
Mysterious Chemistry Behind a Creepy Photographic Technique Unveiled
In the 1960s, a French artist named Jean-Pierre Sudre began experimenting with an obscure 19th-century photographic process, creating dramatic black-and-white photographs with ethereal veiling effects….
Latest Advances in Ionic Channels for Efficient Electrochemical Energy Storage
The rapid development of electronic devices and power equipment, such as new-energy vehicles and robots, has sparked extensive demand for portable power sources. Electrochemical energy…
Make Like a Leaf: ‘Carbon Photosynthesis’ With Nanotechnology to Convert CO2 Into Fuels
Researchers develop process for carbon dioxide conversion. University of Sydney researchers are drawing inspiration from leaves to reduce carbon emissions, using nanotechnology to develop a…
Method Developed to Manipulate Fundamental Architecture of Polymers
A Florida State University research team has developed methods to manipulate polymers in a way that changes their fundamental structure, paving the way for potential…
New Strategy for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Chemists from the University of Basel have succeeded in synthesizing two complex natural products from the group of dithiodiketopiperazines (DTPs). For this, they employed a…
Turning Plastic Trash Into Treasure: Upcycling Plastic Into High-Quality Liquid Products
Catalytic method upcycles single-use plastic into high-quality liquid products. Single-use plastics might have more inherent value than you think. Researchers have developed a new method…
Powered by Sunlight, ‘Artificial Leaf’ Successfully Produces Clean Gas From CO2 and Water
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide, and…
“Impossible!” Chemists Said – But They Had Discovered New Stable Form of Plutonium
An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound of plutonium with an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state, using…
Chemists Discover a Simpler Way to Make Complex Medicines
Chemists find a new way of creating the building blocks of many drugs. Organic chemists at Ohio State University have figured out how to synthesize…