Water pollution is an ever-present problem for modern society, and heavy metals from sectors such as industry and mining are particularly problematic due to their negative effect on ecosystems.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Flexible electronics are a technology that is growing in popularity due to its potential applications in a variety of fields such as sensors, medical devices, and soft robotics.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Food quality is of paramount importance to the food and catering industries. Now, a paper published in Molecules has presented an innovative solution to keeping meat products fresh and improve their quality, shelf-life, and sensory properties: edible onion biofilms.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Buildings are a big contributor to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Brookhaven and Idaho national laboratories and Stony Brook University have developed a novel approach to gain fundamental insights into molten salts, a heat transfer medium important to advanced energy technologies.
Fluorophores, a chemical compound that can emit light, can be used as fluorescent labels for bioimaging, and fluorescent probes to detect a wide range of chemical species and physical parameters.
Catalysts based on transition metals have been of particular interest in various fields of science for some time now. They are used in pharmaceuticals, natural products, chemicals, aromatic hydrocarbon hydrogenation, etc.
Polymers, the basis of all plastics, usually do not have an ordered structure, in contrast to biopolymers such as proteins.
Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for being a fire hazard due to their flammable organic electrolytes. As such, there has been much effort to utilize water-based electrolytes as a safer alternative.
A small guest molecule in the right place makes it possible to produce energy-efficient organic solar cells using eco-friendly solvents.
If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out- What if it wasn't marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, and mud mixed in- That begins to describe the complexity of the brine pumped out from beneath California's Salton Sea as part of geothermal energy production.
Severe energy and environmental problems have been caused by the surplus intake of fossil fuels. As a perfect alternative to fossil fuels, renewable biomass could be converted to chemicals and fuels.
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy—a method that calculates the frequencies produced by the nuclei of certain atoms exposed to radio waves in a powerful magnetic field—can be used to establish chemical and 3D structures as well as the dynamics of materials and molecules.
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a well-established technique for fabricating various designs and forms of complex shape or intricate detail. The method is also relatively common for printing mammalian cells in the context of tissue engineering and has more recently been applied to print microbial cells for biotechnological and biomedical applications.
By David J. Cross
29 Nov 2021
A research group led by Prof. Jeff Dahn of Dalhousie University published a novel study in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society that focuses on life cycle performance analysis of anode-free pouch cells, utilizing around 65 various kinds of electrolytes.
By Ibtisam Abbasi
29 Nov 2021