Chemistry
New insecticidal compounds remain effective against target species while reducing bee toxicity
Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed new insecticidal compounds that show significantly reduced bee toxicity without reducing effectiveness...
It takes two: cooperating catalysts provide new route for utilizing formate salts
Two catalysts working in tandem enable inexpensive formate salts to perform difficult dearomative reactions, giving products potentially useful for drug...
High-gain antenna for NASA’s Roman mission clears environmental tests
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
A sweet reaction: Microwaves might increase the sustainability of the chemicals industry
Osaka, Japan – Much of what the chemicals industry produces, except for metals, is derived from fossil resources. Using renewable...
Upconversion of infrared photons enables rapid organic synthesis under sunlight
A research group led by Prof. WU Kaifeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy...
Urine-diverting toilets expel fewer virus particles than traditional toilets, study suggests
Parents often give their children useful advice: Wash your hands, cover your cough and put the toilet lid down before...
During dolphin research, UH engineer discovers new method to possibly improve pharmaceuticals
In the body, crystals – made of things such as calcium or a collection of urine – form masses that...
Researchers: Energy-efficient construction materials work better in colder climates
The researchers from Lithuania and Cyprus claim that the energy payback period of using phase change materials, new technology in...
The power of theory: Finding an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen peroxide synthesis
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an industrially important chemical with versatile applications. However, the traditional method used to produce H2O2 is energy...
Robots and A.I. team up to discover highly selective catalysts
Researchers used a chemical synthesis robot and computationally cost effective A.I. model to successfully predict and validate highly selective catalysts.Credit:...
Illinois Tech assistant professor publishes paper in Science on novel chemistry behind ultra-high power density batteries
CHICAGO—February 2, 2023—Mohammad Asadi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has published a paper in the journal Science describing...
New ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that...
Discovery of new ice may change understanding of water
Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid...
Metalloradical catalysis guides new cobalt-based system that exploits unique features of homolytic radical reaction
Chestnut Hill, Mass (2/2/2023) – A team of Boston College researchers has demonstrated an unprecedented catalytic approach that enables concurrent...
Researchers use lead recycled from car batteries to make photodetectors
WASHINGTON — As lithium-ion batteries continue to decrease in price, they are quickly replacing the lead-acid batteries traditionally used in...
Unconventional superconductivity found in kagome metal
Physicists using advanced muon spin spectroscopy at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI make the missing link between their recent breakthrough in...
The first lab-created “quantum abacus”
Do you want to know whether a very large integer is a prime number or not? Or if it is...
Major research project studies what it looks like when HIV and coronavirus proteins bind to medications
The way in which molecules interact forms the basis of life and treating illness. But what does it look like...
Near-zero-dispersion soliton and broadband modulational instability Kerr microcombs in anomalous dispersion
Microresonators based frequency combs, microcombs, have attracted huge interest in the last decades for their revolutionary performance of compact size,...
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf
Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by...
