Smart AI makes all kinds of shapes on its own
Credit: POSTECH Plastic is light, cheap, and can be made into any shape if heated, making it a "gift from ...
Tag: Industrial Engineering/Chemistry
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers
Rice lab makes case for high-performance carbon nanotube fibers for industryCredit: Pasquali Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 17, 2020) ...
Novel method can efficiently create several ‘building blocks’ of pharmaceutical drugs
Scientists demonstrate new method of producing a specific class of organic compounds, which promises to accelerate drug discovery research for ...
Dynamic membranes set to solve problems of liquid waste treatment
A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringCredit: Kazan Federal University The co-authors, Associate Professor Dinar ...
New super-resolution method reveals fine details without constantly needing to zoom in
Credit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering Since the early 1930s, electron microscopy has provided unprecedented access to the alien ...
Selective conversion of reactive lithium compounds made possible
Catalysis without unwanted by-productsCredit: RUB, Marquard Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a new catalyst that can catalyse reactions to ...
Porous liquids allow for efficient gas separation
New material opens up the possibility of saving up to 80 percent of energy when separating raw materials for the ...
Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage
Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for energy storageCredit: Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UC Riverside What if you ...
Pressure-induced 2D-3D conversion in hybrid lead iodide layered perovskite
Credit: Gang Liu Hydrostatic pressurization can effectively lead to new and improved material properties. However, most of the novel material ...
Space invaders as MOFs act as liquids
Credit: © 2020 KAUST Innovative materials called metal organic frameworks (MOFs) could become much more versatile following research that shows ...
Breakthrough technology purifies water using the power of sunlight
Credit: Monash University A global research team has been able to transform brackish water and seawater into safe, clean drinking ...
UBC helps Arc’teryx stay green and dry with next-generation water-repellent fabrics
New research creates sustainable and non-toxic replacement for traditional water-repellent chemistryCredit: UBC Okanagan A sustainable, non-toxic and high-performance water-repellent fabric ...
Advance in programmable synthetic materials
Reading sequence of metal atoms in MOFs allows encoding of multiple chemical functionsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Omar Yaghi and ...
A titanate nanowire mask that can eliminate pathogens
EPFL researchers developed a filter "paper" made from titanium oxide nanowires which is capable of trapping pathogens and destroying them ...
Revealing destructive cracks in rock
Texas A&M researchers use intelligent software to classify and portray hidden cracks in solid materialsCredit: Dr. Siddarth Misra/Texas A&M University ...
A closer look at water-splitting’s solar fuel potential
Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis zero in on bismuth vanadate's role in renewable energy ...
New acid mine drainage treatment turns waste into valuable critical minerals
Credit: Penn State A new way to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) could help transform the environmental pollution problem into ...
Trifluoroacetic acid acts as trifluoromethylating agent in arene C-H functionalization
Credit: JIN Jian Researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a ...
Samara Polytech scientists improve casting technology
3D-printed burning-out models are used in the production of ceramic moldsCredit: @SamaraPolytech Specialists of the Department of Foundry and Highly ...
Ultrafast lasers probe elusive chemistry at the liquid-liquid interface
Credit: Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Real-time measurements captured by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National ...
