Engineers Build Chemically Driven Wheels That “Morph” Into Gears to Perform Mechanical Work
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…
Salt-Tolerant Bacteria With an Appetite for Sludge Make Biodegradable Plastics Using a bacterial strain found in mangroves, Texas A&M researchers have uncovered a low-cost, sustainable…
Researchers from Kanazawa University recovered palladium and silver metal from industrial waste, which will help reduce pollution and alleviate demand from dwindling natural sources. Many…
Room Temperature Conversion of CO2 to CO New method could potentially reduce carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturing. Researchers…
Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have reported some exciting findings relating to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs),…
Fikile Brushett, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, had an unusual source of inspiration for his career in the chemical sciences: the character played…
An electrolysis system that doesn’t need pure water may change the game when it comes to exploration. When it comes to water and Mars, there’s…
Researchers in I2CNER, Kyushu University suggest the potential of the advanced gas separation membranes for CO2 extraction from ambient air. Climate change caused by emissions…
Are you affected by your neighbors? So are nanoparticles in catalysts. New research from Chalmers, published in the journals Science Advances and Nature Communications, reveals…
Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method…
Electrically switchable system could continuously separate gases without the need for moving parts or wasted space. A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT…
A research team from Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a promising way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene —…
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers found five different phases in mixtures of two substances. Frozen water can take on up to three forms at the…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a metal-free carbon-based catalyst that has the potential to be much less expensive and…
Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the Hoover Medal. The award is named…
A group of researchers have demonstrated that, from seven methods commonly used to test for viruses in untreated wastewater, an adsorption-extraction technique can most efficiently…
Scientists demonstrate new method of producing a specific class of organic compounds, which promises to accelerate drug discovery research for several diseases. Several drugs, including…
Curlicued research tool propels fast-moving fluids for study by neutrons. What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common…