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Showing posts with label Chemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chemistry. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025

A New Kind of Copper from the Research Reactor

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In front of the nuclear reactor at TU Wien Photo Credit: © TU Wien The copper isotope Cu-64 plays an important role in medicine: it is used ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Two-step flash Joule heating method recovers lithium‑ion battery materials quickly and cleanly

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(From left) Shichen Xu, James Tour, Alex Lathem, Karla Silva and Ralph Abdel Nour. Photo Credit: Jared Jones/Rice University A research team...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Chemistry: In-Depth Description

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Photo Credit:  Artem Podrez Chemistry is the scientific discipline dedicated to the study of matter—its composition, properties, structure, ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

New lightweight polymer film can prevent corrosion

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MIT researchers tested the gas permeability of their new polymer films by suspending them over microwells to form bubbles. Some bubbles from...
Monday, November 10, 2025

New recharge-to-recycle reactor turns battery waste into new lithium feedstock

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A photo of the electrochemical cell set-up in the Rice lab Photo Credit: Jorge Vidal/Rice University As global electric vehicle adoption acc...

New material designed at OSU represents breakthrough in medical imaging

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MRI contrast agent graphic Image Credit: Courtesy of Kyriakos Stylianou / Oregon State University Scientists at Oregon State University have...

How plastics grip metals at the atomic scale

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Hierarchical view of polymer–alumina direct bonding across multiple length scales. Image Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University What makes so...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Scientists develop an efficient method of producing proteins from E. coli

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Proteins are synthesized through two processes involving DNA: transcription, which converts DNA into mRNA; and translation, where ribosomes ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

How unlocking ‘sticky’ chemistry may lead to better, cleaner fuels

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Chemistry powered by renewable electricity offers a promising route to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals. Photo Credit:  Chokniti Khon...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

New observation method improves outlook for lithium metal battery

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Stacey Bent (left), professor of chemical engineering and of energy science and engineering, Sanzeeda Baig Shuchi (right), chemical engineer...

Scientists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon®

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The Newcastle research team (L-R): Dr Matthew Hopkinson, Dr Roly Armstrong and Matthew Lowe. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Newcastle University ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

New AI Model for Drug Design Brings More Physics to Bear in Predictions

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This illustration shows the mesh of anchoring points the team obtained by discretizing the manifold, an estimation of the distribution of at...

Unmasking the Culprits of Battery Failure with a Graphene Mesosponge

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Photo Credit:  Roberto Sorin To successfully meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we need significant breakthr...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Helping farmers, boosting biofuels

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Doug Collins and Teal Potter, co-authors on the new paper, stand in a field of triticale. The cover crop was grown to study its viability as...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Binding power of trapped water demonstrated for the first time

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Water molecules are a driving force in the formation of molecular bonds, such as in proteins. Image Credit: INT, KIT Water is everywhere – i...

Russian Physicists Found a Way to Speed Up the Process of Developing Solar Panels

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According to Ivan Zhidkov, this method allows for the quick selection of only promising materials.  Photo Credit: Rodion Narudinov Physicist...

Extra Silver Atom Sparks Breakthrough in Photoluminescence of Silver Nanoclusters

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Structural architectures of anion-templated (a) Ag78 and (b) Ag79 NCs. Hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity. Image Credit: ©Yuichi Negishi...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Microwaves for energy-efficient chemical reactions

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Microwave reactions. Ideally the microwave reactions can be driven by green energy, in which case the system could help reduce carbon dioxid...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imaging

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Caption:MIT chemists have created a fluorescent, boron-containing molecule that is stable when exposed to air and can emit light in the red ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Rapid flash Joule heating technique unlocks efficient rare‑earth element recovery from electronic waste

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The research team’s method uses flash Joule heating. Photo Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University. A team of researchers including Rice Univers...