Tag: Industrial Engineering/Chemistry

A spider web-inspired solution made possible using 3D printingCredit: Shibo Zou Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team ...

Analyzing biological and chemical damage on 20th-century construction materials

The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has used spectroscopy to explore how the environment impacts on the degradation of new ...

Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons

New method could potentially reduce dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturingCredit: NIST Researchers at the ...

Boosting the capacity of supercapacitors

Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions

Slowly increasing the use of wood in European construction could increase the carbon storage of buildings by 420 million CO2 ...

Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste

October 30, 2020

Rice University lab detours potential environmental hazard into useful materialCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) - Plastic ...

Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene

A spot of pressure enables chemical conversion to hardened 2D materialCredit: Illustration by Pavel Sorokin HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) ...

Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics

Quantum dot logic circuits provide the long-sought building blocks for innovative devices, including printable electronics, flexible displays, and medical diagnosticsCredit: ...

Order in the disorder:

density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discoveredCredit: Eike Gericke/HZB Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced ...

Smart bottle brushes

Neutrons make structural changes in molecular brushes visibleCredit: Reiner Mueller / TUM They look like microscopic bottle brushes: Polymers with ...

NUS researchers develop novel process that turns waste into nutritional supplements

Credit: National University of Singapore The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end ...

Study reveals robust performance in aged detonator explosive

PETN explosive is used extensively in commercial detonators and in the nuclear stockpileCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., ...

Reduction by reduction: Novel approach to mitigating chromium contamination in wastewater

October 28, 2020

Scientists report a novel method based on the chemical reaction 'reduction,' which can help in efficient control of chromium toxicity ...

TalTech chemists’ new method is a significant step towards greener pharmaceutical industry

October 27, 2020

Credit: TalTech The rapid changes in the chemical industry are connected one hand with the depletion of natural resources and ...

Odds are good for unique 2D compound

Perovskites synthesized at Rice University show potential for valleytronics applicationsCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Engineers ...

Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got way easier

New ultra-efficient catalyst can recycle old cooking oil into biodiesel and turn food scraps into high-value complex moleculesCredit: RMIT University ...

Powering the future: new insights into how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells work

Scientists place another piece of the puzzle on how introducing alkali metals into crystals of thin-film flexible solar cells improves ...

Solar hydrogen: let’s consider the stability of photoelectrodes

Credit: HZB Hydrogen is a versatile fuel that can store and release chemical energy when needed. Hydrogen can be produced ...

High-thermoresistant biopolyimides become water-soluble like starch

Credit: JAIST This is the first report for the syntheses of water-soluble polyimides which are Interestingly derived from bio-based resources, ...

Scientists from NUST MISIS manage to improve metallic glasses