This crystal impurity is sheer perfection
Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley design 3D-grown material that could speed up production of new technologies for smart buildings ...
Tag: Polymer Chemistry
Turning plastic into foam to combat pollution
Researchers develop a method to reuse previously nonrecyclable plasticCredit: Heon Park WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 -- Biodegradable plastics are supposed ...
Just mix it up: New synthetic method for making amphiphilic molecules without additives
-Credit: Dr. Masahiro Yamashina Amphiphilic molecules, which aggregate and encapsulate molecules in water, find use in several fields of chemistry. ...
Scientists can predict and design single atom catalysts for important chemical reactions
Using fundamental calculations of molecular interactions, they created a catalyst with 100% selectivity in producing propylene, a key precursor to ...
Fracture setting method could replace metal plates, with fewer complications
Credit: Daniel Hutchinson A new biocompatible polymer-based composite material could soon replace metal plates in treating difficult and unstable fractures. ...
Bioinspired mineralization of calcium carbonate in peptide hydrogel
Credit: Kazuki Murai et al., Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies, Taylor & Francis A team of researchers developed a biomimetic ...
Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
Researchers create robot that sorts soft plasticCredit: University of Sydney Despite an improvement in plastic recycling in recent years, landfill ...
‘Flashed’ nanodiamonds are just a phase
Rice produces fluorinated nanodiamond, graphene, concentric carbon via flash Joule heatingCredit: Illustration by Weiyin Chen/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 21, ...
Solar energy collectors grown from seeds
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystalsCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 21, 2021) - ...
Pioneering chemistry approach could lead to more robust soft electronics
Credit: Udit Chakraborty, Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- A new approach to studying conjugated polymers made it possible ...
UChicago scientists identify properties that allow proteins to strengthen under pressure
Credit: Scheff et al A new rubber band stretches, but then snaps back into its original shape and size. Stretched ...
Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed ...
New material could remove respiratory droplets from air
'Every droplet effectively removed from indoor air would eliminate a potential source of transmission'Credit: Northwestern University Although plexiglass barriers are ...
New method makes generic polymers luminescent
Credit: Koji Kubota et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition. May 14, 2021 Hokkaido University researchers have developed a simple method ...