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Research Models Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Reaction to Improve Chemical Production

Polyisobutenyl succinic anhydrides are important for the auto industry because of their wide use in lubricant and fuel formulations.

18 Feb 2021

Chemists Develop New Method for More Sustainable Recycling of Plastics

The new method works without extremely high temperatures, is therefore more energy-efficient and has a significantly higher recovery rate than established processes.

18 Feb 2021

Self-Healing Concrete for Construction in Seismically Risky Areas

Preparing regular concrete scientists replaced ordinary water with water concentrate of bacteria Bacillus cohnii, which survived in the pores of cement stone.

18 Feb 2021

Researchers Develop Novel Ceramic Fuel Cell that Offers Stability and High Performance

A research team in Korea has developed a ceramic fuel cell that offers both stability and high performance while reducing the required amount of catalyst by a factor of 20.

18 Feb 2021

A New Approach to Find Optimal Composition of Multi-Element Catalysts

Finding the best material composition among thousands of possibilities is like looking for a needle in a haystack. An international team is combining computer simulations and high-throughput experiments to do this.

18 Feb 2021

Researchers Discover a New Pathway to Form Complex Crystals

When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those phenomena is the formation of mesocrystals.

18 Feb 2021

Camera Lenses with Metamaterials-Based Coating Help Study Ancient Light in the Universe

The electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), is a kind of radiation that has been moving through time and space ever since the birth of the very first atoms around 380,000 years after the evolution of the universe.

18 Feb 2021

Reproducible Small Scale Reaction Chemistry at Low Temperatures

Asynt has published a case study describing how the FroSyn Cooling Station has enabled John Bower’s Group at the University of Liverpool (UK) to reproducibly conduct low temperature enantioselective catalytic reactions, over an extended period of time.

From Asynt 18 Feb 2021

PostProcess Brings End-to-End Digitalization to NEXA3D Users through Partnership with ProductionToGo

ProductionToGo team members display photopolymer parts from Nexa3D printers

From PostProcess Technologies 17 Feb 2021

FRESH 3D Bioprinting Approach Paves Way for Complex Tissue and Organ Models

Research into 3D bioprinting has grown rapidly in recent years as scientists seek to re-create the structure and function of complex biological systems from human tissues to entire organs.

17 Feb 2021

Novel Method to Synthesize Useful and Unique N-C Axially Chiral Compounds

Atropisomers are a class of stereoisomers (chemical compounds that differ in spatial arrangement of atoms) arising from restricted rotation around a single bond and have various applications in chemistry.

17 Feb 2021

Nanotechnologies can be Used to Reduce Friction and Improve Durability of Thin Film Coatings

Thin films are solid state substances that can be only several atomic layers thick.

17 Feb 2021

Discovery may Improve the Efficiency of "Cold Spray" Deposition Process

An international team of researchers has solved a puzzling phenomenon whereby strangely beautiful, vortex-like structures appear between materials deposited onto engineering components used in multiple settings - from space shuttles to household items and everyday transport vehicles.

17 Feb 2021

New Method to Take a Sharper Look into Tiny Semiconductor Materials

Images provide information - what we can observe with our own eyes enables us to understand. Constantly expanding the field of perception into dimensions that are initially hidden from the naked eye, drives science forward.

17 Feb 2021