Chemistry
Voice-activated system for hands-free, safer DNA handling
Smart voice assistants are a popular way for people to get quick answers or play their favorite music. That same...
Soil tainted by air pollution expels carbon
New UC Riverside research suggests nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon and release...
Aging | Clearance of p16Ink4a+ cells: limited effects on β-cell mass and proliferation in mice
“ we set out to explore the effects of removing p16Ink4a+ senescent cells on the proliferative capacity and mass of...
UH scientist Eric Bittner elected as AAAS Fellow
University of Houston chemist and physicist Eric Bittner has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the...
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe
Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to find it first.Credit: Photo by Andreas Papadopoulos Sometimes to know...
How to make hydrogels more injectable
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Gel-like materials that can be injected into the body hold great potential to heal injured tissues or...
Magnetic sandwich mediating between two worlds
An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed a new method for the efficient coupling of...
The Future of Physical Chemistry
The symposium was held at the historical Harnack-Haus and discussed possible future developments the FHI will face with the approaching...
ERC Consolidator Grants for two researchers from KIT
In the 2022 allocation round for the award of the prestigious Consolidator Grants of the European Research Council, researchers of...
CityU researchers invented a novel device enabling high-resolution observation of liquid phase dynamic processes at nanoscale
In situ observation and recording of important liquid-phase electrochemical reactions in energy devices is crucial for the advancement of energy...
Elucidation of electrolyte decomposition behavior in all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries
OverviewCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview A research group of the Department of Electrical and...
Catching the wrongdoers in the act: HKU chemists develop a novel tool to decipher bacterial infections in real time
A research team led by Professor Xiang David LI from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong...
An illuminated water droplet creates an ‘optical atom’
Shining light on a water droplet creates effects analogous to what happens in an atom. This can help us understand...
Monitoring an ‘anti-greenhouse’ gas: Dimethyl sulfide in Arctic air
Data stored in ice cores dating back 55 years bring new insight into atmospheric levels of a molecule that can...
$1M grant to U chemists could accelerate drug development
Michael Grünwald, Ryan Looper and Rodrigo Noriega, of the University of Utah Department of Chemistry, received a $1 million grant...
New method to control electron spin paves the way for efficient quantum computers
Quantum science has the potential to revolutionize modern technology with more efficient computers, communication, and sensing devices. Challenges remain in...
A landmark solid material that “upconverts” visible light photons to UV light photons changes how we utilize sunlight
The importance of solar power as a renewable energy resource is increasing. Sunlight contains high-energy UV light with a wavelength...
Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene
With some careful twisting and stacking, MIT physicists have revealed a new and exotic property in “magic-angle” graphene: superconductivity that...
Chemistry under sheer force
Bottle, glass tube and solvent, those are what we usually find in a chemistry lab or industry. Chemistry using solvents,...
Breaking the temperature barrier of hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic biomass
Hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic biomass—the most abundant renewable feedstock—is a promising method for the production of carbon materials with negative...
