All Chemistry


3D printing boost from cheap titanium powder

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2014

The high cost of titanium powder has prohibited its use in 3D printing – with plastics being the pr…

‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013

The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife …

Unexpected boron coupling reaction

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013

Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…

Science Nobels awarded

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013

This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…

Organic solar cells in a spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2013

Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performan…

Primordial soup secret revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013

Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life…

Spray-painting solar cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2013

University of Sheffield researchers have made solar cells using a spray painting-like process. The …

A pleasant aroma relies on good vibrations

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2013

The way molecules vibrate, rather than their shape is responsible for giving substances their chara…

“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2013

Materials Science

The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…

Water’s pyramid shape confirmed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the m…

X-ray prism reveals chemical changes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2012

Ultrashort, ultrabright X-ray laser pulses can reveal details of chemically important molecules at …

Lithium redox imaging for a better battery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2012

A technique developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows, for the first time, the dire…

Super nanoparticles assemble

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012

Chemists from the University of Florida have developed a technique for growing new materials from n…

Stem cells, quantum physics and fight or flight: The Nobel winners 2012

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2012

The most prestigious and publicised awards in the science world were announced last month. Stem cel…

Molecule to reverse fragile X syndrome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012

A compound that shows promise in therapy for one of the diseases closely linked to fragile X syndro…

Renewable energy success: hydrogen fuel cell produced using inexpensive catalyst

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2012

University of Cambridge scientists have produced hydrogen from water using an inexpensive catalyst,…

Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biol…

Nuclear fuel in a jar

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2012

A ‘trophy molecule’ that has eluded scientists for decades has been created in a stable form for th…

New technique for radiation detection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Aug 2012

A new technique could see radiation detection of cargo and baggage become more effective and less c…

Award winning lecturer Chick C Wilson

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2011

This month we catch up with a chemist from Bath who’s been lecturing on misbehaving molecules
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