Chemistry
Electrochemical device captures carbon dioxide at the flick of a switch
HOUSTON – (June 28, 2023) – New technology developed by Rice University engineers could lower the cost of capturing carbon...
Professor Hongzhe SUN receives the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 Dalton Horizon Prize
A team led by Professor Hongzhe SUN, Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry and Chair Professor of Chemistry...
Decrypting integrins by mixed-solvent molecular dynamics simulation
A team of researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich together with the Swiss company Allocyte Pharmaceuticals have for...
High-speed proton transaction
Credit: DESY, Ludger Inhester How did life begin on Earth? Experts have long been fascinated by this question and over...
Squid-inspired soft material is a switchable shield for light, heat, microwaves
With a flick of a switch, current technologies allow you to quickly change materials from being dark to light, or...
Clemson team’s novel metal-organic framework could help advance semiconductors
A team of Clemson University chemists has constructed a novel two-dimensional electrically conductive metal-organic framework (MOF), a breakthrough that could...
Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist
FROM: James UrtonCredit: Eric Anderson/University of Washington FROM: James Urton University of Washington 206-543-2580 [email protected] (Note: researcher contact information...
Chemists are on the hunt for the other 99 percent
The universe is awash in billions of possible chemicals. But even with a bevy of high-tech instruments, scientists have determined...
New driver for shapes of small quark-gluon plasma drops?
UPTON, NY—New measurements of how particles flow from collisions of different types of particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have...
First drug discovered and designed with generative AI enters Phase II trials, with first patients dosed
Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced that it has completed the first dose...
Chocolate can be fruity or flowery — if you skip the roasting step
“Natural” foods are trendy, and proponents claim that little or no processing helps preserve the food’s inherent flavor. Research now...
Fondant: Where baking and thermodynamics mix
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2023 – With their unique appearance, texture, and mouthfeel, fondants have intrigued bakers and physicists for years....
New developments for high-speed internet from space enabled by coherent modulation and adaptive optics
Internet from space via satellite has become a topic of interest. Commercial satellite networks, such as SpaceX Starlink and Telesat...
£1.29 million funding boost for solar scientists
Scientists from Northumbria University’s world-leading Solar and Space Physics research group have been awarded more than £1 million to carry...
Gravity and dark matter, a bond beyond distances
Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity as an action at a distance: a planet instantly feels the influence of...
Air pollution speeds snowmelt
Diminished anthropogenic pollutant emissions during 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns reduced snowmelt in the Himalayas, according to a study. Liqiang Zhang and...
Benzimidazole-based covalent organic framework embedding single-atom Pt sites for visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Hydrogen (H2) is a clean carbon-free fuel with high gravimetric energy density and emerges as an attractive alternative to the...
Unveiling the secrets of liquid iron under extreme conditions
Iron is the most abundant element by mass on Earth. Despite being so common and well-studied, iron still manages to...
Synthesis of peripherally annulated phenanthroporphyrins
Prof. Okujima, in collaboration with Prof. Kobayashi at Shinshu University, reported the synthesis, molecular structure, optical properties and electronic structure...
Recent progress of Ni-based catalysts for methanol electrooxidation reaction in alkaline media
The study is led by Ligang Feng (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University).Credit: Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co....
