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An old material gets a new name and with it topological insulators have another chance to shine Samarium hexaboride SmB6 has been around since the late 1960s but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained ...
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter with support from Shell has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand While the technology still faces many significant ...
How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular look has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by ...
All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
The research team led by Academy Research Fellow Heikki M Tuononen has been able to identify the mechanism which enables some non metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their metal based counterparts Chemical reactivity ...
Environmental Chemistry
Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons making coral reefs more vulnerable to disruption and erosion according to a new study of corals growing where submarine springs ...
- New 'embryonic' subduction zone found
- 'Cold snap' 116 million years ago triggered marine ecosystem crisis
- Global cooling as significant as global warming, study of marine ecosystems during Cretaceous period shows
- Secrets of biological soil crusts uncovered
- Study of oceans' past raises worries about their future
Scientific Communication
A new type of soil property maps for Africa has been launched by ISRIC − World Soil Information in Wageningen Netherlands The maps are freely accessible Share This See Also Geography Landslides Acid Rain Global ...
- Collaborations Between Cooks and Chemists Push the Boundaries of Taste
- Global Leaders of $3.5 Trillion Enterprise Gathering for Two Days of Talks
- Communicating the science of the '6x°C egg'
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- Energy and Food Are the Focus of the American Chemical Society Meeting in 'The Big Easy'
Chemical Kinetics
From methanol to formaldehyde this reaction is the starting point for the synthesis of many everyday plastics Using catalysts made of gold particles formaldehyde could be produced without the environmentally hazardous waste generated in conventional ...
- Reaction rates of second key atmospheric component measured
- Cost-Saving Measure to Upgrade Ethanol to Butanol -- A Better Alternative to Gasoline
- Catalyst for green chemistry: Amberlyst-15 can act as a catalyst for the acylation of phenols and alcohols
- Breakthrough research shows chemical reaction in real time
- Catalysts that produce 'green' fuel
Chemistry Education
Organic chemistry: Leading light waves astrayThe development of structured synthetic materials with unusual electromagnetic properties so called metamaterials promises to provide access to special physical effects of great technological interest Metamaterials have already been fabricated that have a negative refractive ...
Chemical Thermodynamics
In findings that could help overcome a major technological hurdle in the road toward smaller and more powerful electronics an international research team involving University of Michigan engineering researchers has shown the unique ways in ...
Polymer Chemistry
Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy storage solutions are urgently needed One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis in the process ...
- Filmmaking magic with polymers
- Organic polymers show sunny potential: Groundwork laid for block copolymer solar cells
- Polymer breakthrough inspired by trees and ancient celtic knots
- New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets
- Counter-intuitive behavior of microgel composed of soft polymer blobs
Chemical Physics
It's not reruns of The Jetsons but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television ...
Theoretical Chemistry
The harder you pull the quicker it goes At least that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces However ...
- Scientists capture first images of molecules before and after reaction
- Models from big molecules captured in a flash
- Detecting mirror molecules: New technique reliably tells left-handed from right-handed variant of a compound
- Unique method creates correct mirror image of molecule
- World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
Materials Science
Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology UNIST S Korea developed a novel simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous frameworks of nanocrystalline metal oxides such as magnesia and ceria by the thermal conversion ...
- Artificial bone: Designing synthetic materials and quickly turning the design into reality with 3-D printing
- Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for batteries
- Nanoparticle opens the door to clean-energy alternatives
- Light-carved 'nano-volcanoes' hold promise for drug delivery
- Silicon-based nanoparticles could make LEDs cheaper, greener to produce
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- Siberian caves warn of permafrost meltdown
- Sound waves precisely position nanowires
- 'Chemical architects' build materials with potential applications in drug delivery and gas storage
- Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates
- Chemical nanoengineering: Designing drugs controlled by light
- Stress Hormone Could Trigger Mechanism for the Onset of Alzheimer's
- Underwater springs reveal how coral reefs respond to ocean acidification
- Predators affect the carbon cycle, study shows
- Coatings could help medical implants function better
- Efficient and inexpensive: Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells
- Simple and inexpensive process to make a material for carbon dioxide adsorption
- Uniquely shaped enzyme amazes chemists
- Polymer-coated catalyst protects 'artificial leaf'
- Researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with supercomputer
- Artificial bone: Designing synthetic materials and quickly turning the design into reality with 3-D printing
- New 'embryonic' subduction zone found
- 'Cold snap' 116 million years ago triggered marine ecosystem crisis
- Global cooling as significant as global warming, study of marine ecosystems during Cretaceous period shows
- Noble gases hitch a ride on hydrous minerals
- Star-shaped macromolecule grabs large anions
- Secrets of biological soil crusts uncovered
- Bioenergy potential unearthed in leaf-cutter ant communities
- New Findings Regarding DNA Damage Checkpoint Mechanism in Oxidative Stress
- Memory-Boosting Chemical Is Identified in Mice
- Detecting homemade explosives, not toothpaste
- Study of oceans' past raises worries about their future
- Odors from human skin cells can be used to identify melanoma
- Autonomous energy-scavenging micro devices will test water quality, monitor bridges, more
- Prefab houses that are glued, not nailed, together
- Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for batteries
- New catalyst neutralizes gases responsible for climate change
- Nanoparticle opens the door to clean-energy alternatives
- Research Identifies Scent of Melanoma
- Spot-welding graphene nanoribbons atom by atom
- 'Self-cleaning' pollution-control technology could do more harm than good, study suggests
- Light-carved 'nano-volcanoes' hold promise for drug delivery
- DNA brings materials to life: DNA-coated colloids help create novel self-assembling materials
- Silicon-based nanoparticles could make LEDs cheaper, greener to produce
- Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics
- Molecular 'sieves' harness ultraviolet irradiation for greener power generation
- Fossil kangaroo teeth reveal mosaic of Pliocene ecosystems in Queensland
- Luminous bacterial proteins detect chemicals in water
- Rapid adaptation is purple sea urchins' weapon against ocean acidification
- New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy
- Nano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat transfer measurements
- Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms
- Cameras five times more sensitive to light? An ultrasensitive molybdenum-based image sensor developed
- Filmmaking magic with polymers
- Carbon dioxide absorption in Antarctic seas
- Researchers sequence the genome of global deep ocean
- Iron fertilization, process of putting iron into ocean to help capture carbon, could backfire
- Moving Iron in Antarctica
- Chalking up a marine blooming alga: Genome fills a gap in the tree of life
- Life underground: Microbes active far beneath seafloor
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