New “Artificial Photosynthesis” System Produces Methane With 10x Efficiency
University of Chicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide, and water. Humans have relied on fossil fuels for concentrated energy for the past…
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NIST Breakthrough: Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks
Easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere. How can carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, be removed from the exhaust…
New Air Filter Features Excellent Performance and Endurance in Harsh Environments
New air filter design promises strong potential for applications in automobiles and industry. A high-performance composite sponge that works effectively to filter particulate matter in…
Scientists Discover “Holy Grail of Catalysis” – Converting Methane Into Methanol Using Light
An international team of researchers has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, commonly called natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature…
Entirely New, Inexpensive Catalyst Speeds the Production of Oxygen From Water
The material could replace rare metals and lead to more economical production of carbon-neutral fuels. An electrochemical mechanism that splits apart water molecules to produce…
World-First Antibody-Drug Delivery System Developed Using Supercharged Man-Made Crystals
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a man-made crystal that can be attached to antibodies and then supercharge them with potent drugs or…
There’s $700 Trillion Worth of Gold in Seawater! Can We Extract It? [Video]
The ocean has about 20 million tons of gold in it — that’s around 700 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of gold! In this episode of Reactions,…
On-Water Creation of Conducting MOF Nanosheets for Future Sensors and Energy Devices
Spontaneous wide-area spreading of oil on water inspires a facile energy-saving route of crafting electrically conductive nanostructures for future sensor/energy devices. Oil and water do…
Star Attraction: Magnetism Generated by Star-Like Kagome Geometry Arrangement of Molecules
2D kagome materials are a platform for tuneable electron-electron interactions ‘Star-like’ atomic-scale kagome geometry ‘switches on’ magnetism in a 2D organic material A 2D nanomaterial…
Pivotal Discovery of Nanomaterial for LEDs: New Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Light Source
Breakthrough in stabilizing nanocrystals introduces a low-cost, energy-efficient light source for consumer electronic devices, detectors, and medical imaging. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an unsung hero…
Flexible, Wearable X-Ray Detector Doesn’t Require Toxic Heavy Metals
X-ray imaging is a fast and painless way for doctors to see inside a person. But radiation detectors, which go under the body part being…
Machine Learning Using Collective Knowledge to Crack the Oxidation States of Crystal Structures
Chemical elements make up pretty much everything in the physical world. As of 2016, we know of 118 elements, all of which can be found…
A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide From the Air
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2. Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion…
Cooling Homes Without Warming the Planet – New Technology for More Efficient AC
The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air…
MIT Uses Neutrons in Drive to Improve Energy Storage in Supercapacitors
Batteries contain chemicals that store and release electrical energy at relatively slow rates compared to capacitors, which are often used in applications requiring power to…
Specially Designed Metal-Organic Framework for Safer, Cheaper Natural Gas Storage
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is one of the most abundant organic compounds on Earth. Like other fossil fuels, it can be captured,…
Separating Gases Using Flexible Molecular Sieves Made From Metal-Organic Frameworks
Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have made reported some exciting findings relating to metal-organic frameworks…
New Technique to Capture CO2 More Efficiently Could Reduce Power Plant Greenhouse Gases
Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove 90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply. big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural…
