A new high-profile scientific review article in Nature Reviews Chemistry discusses how carbon dioxide (CO2) converts from a gas to a solid in ultrathin films of water on underground rock surfaces. These solid minerals, known as carbonates, are both stable and common.
Imagine a typical recycling plant. Now imagine that the plant is a chemistry lab, and the crushed soda cans and waist-high stacks of junk mail have been replaced by microscopic structures worth tens of thousands of dollars per gram.
Hydrogen gas could someday replace fossil fuels as a "clean" energy source, producing only water and energy.
The materials used to power electronics must also get thinner as they get smaller and smaller. In light of this, finding materials that can keep unique electrical properties at an ultrathin size is one of the fundamental difficulties researchers confront when creating the next generation of energy-efficient devices.
Keeping the electricity grid up and running through summer heat waves and winter deep freezes is an ongoing balancing act. Power lines that stretch for miles are vulnerable to wind and fire.
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, researchers discussed the development of laboratory tools that could measure bulk materials under difficult circumstances through 3D printing.
By Surbhi Jain
20 Oct 2022
A new paper in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science has explored the creation of hydrogen-bonded clusters in hydrogels and the influence of network structure on the relationships between their structure and prope...
By Reginald Davey
20 Oct 2022
A paper recently published in the journal Energies demonstrated the feasibility of using double cathode modification layers to fabricate organic solar cells (OSCs) with high stability and efficiency.
By Samudrapom Dam
20 Oct 2022
In an effort to better comprehend the disease that is one of the major causes of mortality worldwide, researchers at Penn State successfully 3D bioprinted breast cancerous tumors and treated them.
Researchers from the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences of the University of Amsterdam offer a method that enables the transition of photocatalysis from the laboratory to the industry in a paper published in Nature Communications.
Alcohols are used to remove impurities on the surface of semiconductors or electronics during the manufacturing process, and wastewater containing alcohols is treated using reverse osmosis, ozone, and biological decomposition.
Scientists can convert carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into higher value multicarbon products, seen as intermediates for potential fuels. In this research, scientists examined a new approach to this conversion process. The approach uses a material called a tandem catalyst-;an electrode with two catalytic regions.
Scientists have long been fascinated with the origin of life on Earth, namely the transition from simple pre-biotic organic molecules to living cell systems.
Metso Outotec is introducing yet another innovative plant concept, Flotation Plant Units, to its unique minerals processing portfolio.
Scientists from France’s Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris have reviewed the current state-of-the-art of glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy, an emerging technique in the field of PSC research. Their research has been published in the journal Small Methods.
By Reginald Davey
19 Oct 2022