Chemistry
Orange Peel Waste Transformed Into Antioxidant-Rich Bio-Oil Using Hot Compressed Water
Mexican researchers used hydrothermal carbonization to convert orange peel waste into a bio-oil containing phenolic antioxidants, finding peak yields and...
Nanomaterial Sensors Catch Toxic Food Adulterants at Ultra-Trace Levels
A comprehensive review shows how nanomaterial-engineered electrochemical sensors are achieving ultra-trace detection of the food adulterants melamine and clenbuterol in...
Sound Waves and a Plant-Made Catalyst Turn Water Into a Drug-Making Machine
Chemists have synthesized novel benzopyranoquinoline compounds in water in just fifteen minutes using ultrasound and a plant-derived Cu/ZnO@GO nanocatalyst, with...
Earth-Abundant CFTS Solar Cells Simulated to Reach 25.52% Efficiency
Researchers fabricated spray-deposited CFTS/CdS solar cells reaching 5.23 percent efficiency and used SCAPS-1D simulations calibrated to the experiments to identify...
Waste Polyamide Becomes Tunable Light-Emitting Carbon Dots, Saitama Team Reports
Researchers at Saitama University converted waste polyamide plastic into carbon quantum dots whose photoluminescence was tuned continuously from ultraviolet to...
Cigarette Filters Reborn as Green Sorbents to Catch Pesticides in Vegetables
Researchers converted cellulose acetate cigarette filters into hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent-coated sorbents for microextraction of chlorpyrifos and fenitrothion from vegetables,...
Microbial Succession Drives the Aroma of Traditional Mould-Fermented Sufu, Study Finds
A new study combining GC–MS and high-throughput sequencing reveals how shifting fungal and bacterial communities shape the volatile aroma compounds...
Computer-Designed Naphthalene Molecules Point to Cheaper, More Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Quantum chemical simulations identify a dinitro-substituted naphthalene chromophore with a record-low energy gap and exciton binding energy as a leading...
Isoniazid Reborn: Computational Design Yields a Schiff Base Lead That Outperforms a First-Line TB Drug
A virtual library of 30 isoniazid-based Schiff base derivatives was computationally screened, and the top-ranked compound SLB-5 was synthesized and...
Lattice Parameter Emerges as Master Key to Magnetic States in Quasicrystal Clusters
Researchers at Tokyo University of Science and Tohoku University show that the lattice parameter, with sharply defined thresholds near 14.62...
Aluminum Doping Supercharges Lithium Transport in Low-Temperature Argyrodite Electrolyte
Researchers in Vietnam used liquid-phase synthesis and aluminum doping to boost the room-temperature ionic conductivity of low-temperature argyrodite Li7PS6 to...
New Coumarin Compounds Show Powerful Multitarget Potential Against Skin Aging
Chemists have created a coumarin-based compound that inhibits tyrosinase twenty times more potently than kojic acid while also blocking the...
Frog Egg Byproduct Inspires Smart Food Wrap That Changes Color as Food Spoils
Researchers built an all-natural food packaging film from frog egg protein, xanthan gum, lemon essential oil, and anthocyanins that preserves...
Solvent Polarity Steers Double Proton Transfer in a Promising OLED Fluorophore
A new computational study reveals that solvent polarity strengthens dual hydrogen bonds and drives a stepwise double proton transfer in...
AI Digital Twins Could Transform Intensive Care in Landmark $38 Million Federal Project
The University of Vermont has received up to $38 million from ARPA-H to build AI-powered digital twins that simulate critically...
Ancient Chinese Medicine Compounds Turned Into Next-Generation Antibiotic Candidates by AI
Researchers used machine learning, docking, and molecular dynamics to transform Traditional Chinese Medicine compounds into optimized computational leads against E....
How Bacteria Wire Themselves to Electrodes: The Electron Transfer Secrets Powering Microbial Fuel Cells
A new review details how bacteria transfer electrons to electrodes through nanowires, cytochromes and chemical mediators, the key mechanism that...
Scientists unlock rice protein’s hidden power as a plant-based emulsifier
A new review in Food Chemistry: X details how physical, chemical, and enzymatic modifications can transform rice protein's rigid structure...
MOF Catalyst Turns Oleic Acid into Biodiesel with 93.9% Conversion
Chinese researchers have embedded phosphotungstic acid inside a zirconium-based metal-organic framework to create a reusable solid acid catalyst that converts...
Physicists sculpt 3D light fields to steer electrons into new quantum states
Physicists at the University of Oldenburg have generated fully three-dimensional light fields from two intersecting femtosecond laser pulses and used...
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