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Mammal Bones Inspire Design of Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Sodium-ion batteries are poised to replace lithium-ion batteries for large-scale electrical energy storage. They offer several advantages over lithium-ion batteries, particularly due to the widespread abundance of sodium.

9 Dec 2020

Study Offers New Insight into Molecular Interactions of Dihydrogen Phosphate Anions

A fascinating discovery that dihydrogen phosphate anions—inorganic ions essential for cellular activity—tend to bind with other dihydrogen phosphate anions despite being charged negatively was made by researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney in collaboration with researchers from Western Sydney University and The Netherlands.

8 Dec 2020

New Method to Produce Indolizines Using Pyridinium Salts, Enaminones

Indolizines are a family of substances with both optical and biological properties. At RUDN University, a group of chemists has devised a new technique to produce indolizines using enaminones and pyridinium salts.

7 Dec 2020

Chemists Discover a Second Level Of Fluorescence in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

That carbon nanotubes fluoresce is no longer a surprise. Finding a second level of fluorescence is surprising and potentially useful.

4 Dec 2020

Smart Evaporator Assists Medicinal Chemistry

From BioChromato Inc. 3 Dec 2020

A New Breakthrough in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethylene

In recent times, "electrochemical conversion (e-chemical)" technology-which converts carbon dioxide to high-value-added compounds using renewable electricity-has gained research attention as a carbon capture utilization (CCU) technology.

3 Dec 2020

Self-Healing Gelatin-Based Film Could be Used in Smart Electronics

Dropping a cell phone can sometimes cause superficial cracks to appear. But other times, the device can stop working altogether because fractures develop in the material that stores data.

3 Dec 2020

New Electrode Structure can Boost Energy Density of All-Solid-State Secondary Batteries

Scientists in South Korea have recently designed a new kind of electrode structure specifically for all-solid-state secondary batteries.

3 Dec 2020

New Cross-Coupling Reaction Could Help Make Chemical Industry More Sustainable

Human life has been transformed by plastics, pharmaceuticals, and several other chemical products. To make such products, chemists frequently make use of a catalyst—often based on rare metals—at different points in their syntheses.

1 Dec 2020

N-Heterocyclic Phosphines: New Group of Promising Catalysts for Metal-Free Reductions

Hydride transfer is a prevailing protocol for reduction of unsaturated compounds, which is traditionally accomplished under the catalysis of transition-metals, particularly those of noble metals.

1 Dec 2020

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