Chemistry

Freshwater scarcity has pushed membrane technology to the center of modern water treatment, and one of the field’s stubbornest problems...

A team of researchers spanning institutions in Nigeria, the United States, South Africa, and India argues that flavonoids, the polyphenolic...

Xihu Longjing, the legendary green tea harvested around Hangzhou’s West Lake, can command prices that rival fine wine, and that...

Researchers at Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi, have combined two of chemistry’s most photophysically gifted materials into a solar-powered...

At the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, a question that has lingered for more than a decade may...

Chemists in Thailand and Japan have unveiled a new kind of recyclable catalyst that could help solve one of the...

The world’s appetite for electricity is climbing at a pace that conventional energy infrastructure simply cannot match. According to a...

Diacylglycerol, or DAG, is one of those quiet molecules that food scientists have long wanted more of. It occurs naturally...

A single nanomaterial that can strip a stubborn industrial dye from water and, under the same visible light, drive cervical...

Medicinal chemists have long been drawn to nitrogen-rich ring structures, the molecular scaffolds that underpin a remarkable share of the...

Turning carbon dioxide back into useful chemicals is one of the most tantalizing goals in modern electrochemistry, and copper has...

The mangosteen, Garcinia mangostana, has long been celebrated across Southeast Asia as the “queen of fruits,” prized for its sweet,...

The United States has spent years worrying about where its next supply of nickel, titanium, manganese, vanadium and rare earth...

Cellulose is the most abundant natural polymer on Earth, and in an era when societies are urgently searching for alternatives...

A team of computational chemists has designed a family of eight new organic molecules that, according to detailed quantum mechanical...

A package of fish sits in the refrigerator, and the film lining the lid quietly shifts from golden yellow to...

For decades, measuring the antioxidant power of a food, drug, or cosmetic has meant the same thing: mixing a sample...

A new scientific journal dedicated entirely to green chemistry has launched with a bold ambition: to make safer, cleaner, and...

In a finding that sounds more like kitchen alchemy than materials science, researchers in India have transformed the soot from...

Imagine a future in which the very concrete beneath your feet and around your windows does more than hold a...