Chemistry

May 10, 2024

Desolvation and deposition behavior of Zn after the introduction of SCP interlayer

Bifunctional sulfonated covalent polymers as modulator for oriented and highly reversible zinc plating during whole cycling process

February 15, 2023

This study is led by Prof. Xian-Xiang Zeng (School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hunan Agricultural University) and Prof. Xiong-Wei...

Reduced energetic disorder enables over 14% efficiency in organic solar cells based on completely non-fused-ring donors and acceptors

February 15, 2023

Non-fused-ring organic photoactive materials have attracted broad attention in recent years due to their low synthetic cost. Different from the...

Mashing molecules: An innovative solution towards greener pharmaceuticals

February 15, 2023

The European Commission has awarded IMPACTIVE almost €7.7 million to reinvent and reinforce the pharmaceutical supply chain. Currently, the production...

The food of the future will come through polyphenols applications

All strategies to redesign, rethink, and reshape food and beverages in order to fit and adapt to our modern-day needs...

Let’s talk to a moth about sex: Polish chemists have ‘made a deal’ with a butterfly threatening pine forests

Beyond the seven mountains and forests, a hungry beast was stealing away. Does this sound like a fairy tale? In...

The perfect pour: model predicts beer head features

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2023 – From creating drinks with distinctive looks to providing aromas for connoisseurs, beer foam is big...

When the light is neither “on” nor “off” in the nanoworld

Whether the light in our living spaces is on or off can be regulated in everyday life simply by reaching...

Four classes of planetary systems

In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars,...

Leonardo da Vinci’s forgotten experiments explored gravity as a form of acceleration

Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci’s understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time.Credit: Caltech...

Coral reefs in the Eastern Pacific could survive into the 2060s, new study finds

Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science found that some reefs in the...

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Method found for analysing complex, tiny crystals

When analysing crystal structure, the combination of electron microscopy and synchrotron radiation – particularly intense X-rays generated using a special...

Scientific AI’s ‘black box’ is no match for 200-year-old method

HOUSTON – (Feb. 13, 2023) – One of the oldest tools in computational physics — a 200-year-old mathematical technique known...

The surprising similarities of packed particles

The ways in which particles, such as sand or liquid droplets, behave during various mechanical processes is well studied. Typically,...

International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Int. J. Mol. Sci.); open-access