Boronic acid has been used in organic chemistry for decades, even though it is not present in any organism. "It gives rise to different chemical reactions than those we find in nature," explains ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemists-nature-enzyme-boron.html
Imagine synthesizing and then testing over 50 different complex molecules to identify the most effective catalyst for a particular chemical reaction. The traditional approach to developing new ca...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-catalyst-guesswork-chemistry.html
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Drexel University in Philadelphia, along with Brookhaven National Laboratory, are working to solve a multipart mystery to make water disinfection t...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-catalysis-corrosion-mystery-electrochemical-ozone.html
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a catalyst material known as cobalt phthalocyanine that converts carbon dioxide—a significant driver of climate change—into renewable ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-carbon-neutrality-catalyst-dioxide-methanol.html
Researchers at Rice University have successfully synthesized a group of natural compounds known as fusicoccanes. The molecules found in various living organisms exhibit diverse biological activit...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-synthetic-chemistry-approach-yields-compounds.html
The boundary between solid metal and liquid metal can be much less "solid" than we ever suspected. RMIT researchers have discovered that the liquid-solid boundary can fluctuate back and forth, wi...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-spontaneous-liquefaction-solid-metalliquid-metal.html
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new model for disordered materials to study how amorphous materials resist stress. They treated groups of atoms and molecules as squis...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-variety-block-softness-softer-amorphous.html
Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has solved an age-old challenge to synthesize al...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-2d-perovskites-potential-electronics.html
The Smart Materials research group, coordinated by Athanassia Athanassiou at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology), has developed a biocompatible bandage made of p...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-environmentally-friendly-based-bandage.html
Recycling does not necessarily prevent an item from eventually ending up in a landfill, according to Enrique Gomez, interim associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engin...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cold-sintering-plastic-ceramics-battery.html
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding environment.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-eco-friendly-lubricant-additives-turbine.html
A new catalyst made from an inexpensive, abundant metal and common table sugar has the power to destroy carbon dioxide (CO2) gas.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-sugar-based-catalyst-potential-solution.html
They are found as fragrances in cosmetics or as flavorings in food, and form the basis of new medications: Terpenes are natural substances that occur in plants, insects and sea sponges. They are ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemists-approach-synthesis-complex-natural.html
Driving at night might be a scary challenge for a new driver, but with hours of practice it soon becomes second nature. For self-driving cars, however, practice may not be enough because the lida...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemists-highly-black-visible-autonomous.html
In a recent study, Dr. Vojtěch Dočekal and Professor Jan Veselý from the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, have unveiled a highly efficient method ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-approach-planar-chiral-substances.html
For the first time, chemists in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering have created a highly reactive chemical compound that has eluded scientists for more tha...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-compound-year-problem.html
High refractive index polymers (HRIPs) are essential for manufacturing modern optoelectronic devices, including displays and light sensors. However, high-performance HRIPs are expensive and envir...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-high-refractive-index-polymers-sustainable.html
Researchers in Purdue University's College of Engineering have developed and validated a patent-pending method that could expand the industrial applications of ceramics by making them more plasti...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-plasticity-ceramic-materials-room-temperature.html
A new type of porous material that can store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been developed by a team of scientists jointly led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-porous-material-greenhouse-gases.html
Chinese scientists have recently achieved the direct synthesis of high-purity benzaldehyde chemicals from the selective electrooxidation of benzyl alcohol. The organic-solid-water (OSW) three-pha...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-electrosynthesis-superwetting-solid-interfaces.html
The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for more than 100 years—now Mülheim scientists have discovered a safer alternative. The Ritter Group of the Max Planck ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-safer-alternative-explosive-reaction.html
A research group led by Prof. Li Runwei and Hu Benlin at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a facile and efficie...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-thiol-ene-click-reaction-approach.html
Freeze casting is an elegant, cost-effective manufacturing technique to produce highly porous materials with custom-designed hierarchical architectures, well-defined pore orientation, and multifu...
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have gained new insights in the field of high-pressure carbon chemistry: They synthesized two new carbides—compounds of carbon and another chemical ele...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-synthesis-carbides-perspective-complex-carbon.html
In most industrial chemical reactions, catalysts combine with the starting materials and accompany them through intermediate stages to the product. In chemistry, this pathway is known as the reac...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chemical-rope-molecular-mechanism-trial.html
A team of chemical engineers from Université PSL, CNRS, Harvard University and chemical company Calyxia, has discovered a way to prevent or delay coalescence in some immiscible liquids.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-method-coalescence-immiscible-liquids.html
Magnetic cilia—artificial hairs whose movement is powered by embedded magnetic particles—have been around for a while, and are of interest for applications in soft robotics, transporting obje...
Scientists have developed a sustainable new way of making complex molecules, which could greatly reduce waste produced during drug manufacturing, a study suggests.
Did you know that 99% of synthetic diamonds are currently produced using high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) methods? A prevailing paradigm is that diamonds can only be grown using liquid m...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-liquid-metal-alloy-diamond.html
A team of chemists at Lake Superior State University, working with colleagues from Wayne State University, both in Michigan, and two representatives from JEOL U.S., a lab equipment maker, has fou...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cannabis-papers-unhealthy-heavy-metals.html