All Chemistry

Ready for a fully energised lecture?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2016
The Christmas Lectures have been a key part of the Royal Institution’s science outreach since 1825.…

Scientists calculate future benefits of electric vehicles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2016
Electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells are more likely to be enviro…

Accidental greenhouse gas to fuel process discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2016
Scientists have accidentally discovered a way to convert carbon dioxide solution to ethanol.

Industrial Fellowships for promising researchers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016
The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded 10 early-career engineers and scientists…

World’s smallest machines scoop Chemistry Nobel
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart a…

US scientists observe chemical reaction for the first time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Oct 2016
Scientists have used a specific type of X-ray to study a never-seen-before chemical reaction.

Library of pharma compounds open for researchers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2016
In conjunction with the Medical Research Council, six global drug companies have released 47 deprio…

Scientists achieve breakthrough in graphene production
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2016
Chemists in Germany have created, for the first time, defect-free graphene from graphite.

Lateral solar cells promise bright future
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2016
A team of US engineers have created high performance, micro-scale solar cells that could power a wi…

Nanoparticles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2016
Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.

Photosynthesis recreated in the lab
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2016
Swiss chemists have taken a step closer to generating energy from sunlight, by reproducing a crucia…

Artificial nose capable of detecting nerve gas created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2016
An electronic ‘nose’ has been created by scientists in Belgium to detect molecules found in pestici…

Nanotechnology boosts oil recovery chances
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jul 2016
A new method utilising nanoparticle-containing solutions that allow for enhanced recovery of oil at…

Nanoparticle embedding method created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2016
Tools such as ‘smart display’ 3D glasses or remote radiation sensors could be more easily created a…

Material discovered to lower nuclear fuel recycling costs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2016
A computer model has helped scientists find a new material that could help nuclear fuel recycling b…

IUPAC names new elements
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2016
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has proposed the names for four recently disc…

Faster heart attack detection device launched
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2016
A new device has been released to inform clinicians if a patient has suffered a heart attack within…

Lasers used to create new compounds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2016
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used lasers to manipulate atoms in hy…

Upgraded spectrometer able to analyse outer space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2016
A spectrometer has had its capabilities extended to identify large, complex molecular structures fo…

Chef de science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2016
Professor Peter Barnham speaks on the science of molecular gastronomy.