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Nano-enhanced palladium reacts to light

February 7, 2019
An optical-enhanced form of palladium could be the key to a more environmentally friendly chemical manufacturing industry.Researchers at RMIT University in Australia manipulated the optical properties of palladium nanoparticles to...

Graphene turned into dough for transport

January 29, 2019
Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less prone to combustion.A team at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering made the dough...

Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

January 17, 2019
A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid metal catalysts.The low temperature, low pressure electrolytic process developed at Ohio's Case Western...

Squeezed nitrogen reveals surprising crystal

November 26, 2018
An unusually complex form of one of the most abundant chemical elements on Earth has been revealed in the lab for the first time.Researchers from the University of Edinburgh created...

Joint spin-out creates holey water

November 20, 2018
The University of Liverpool and Queen’s University Belfast have jointly created a spin-out company to develop a new class of materials known as porous liquids.The material is a new class...

AI enhanced NMR sets record

November 19, 2018
Swiss scientists have created a method that can be combined with NMR spectroscopy to determine the exact location of atoms in complex organic compounds.The team, from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...

Chemical safety project advances

October 9, 2018
An alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences has announcing a number of advances its Chemical Safety Library Service.The project, run by the Pistoia Alliance, captures,...

A light touch

September 28, 2018
Researchers at the European Graphene Flagship have designed a molecule that can reversibly undergo chemical transformations when illuminated with light. This molecule – a photoswitchable spiropyran– can be anchored to...

Anti-bac polymers created with light

September 24, 2018
Hundreds of polymers – which could kill drug-resistant superbugs in novel ways – can be produced and tested using light according to a team from the University of Warwick.Researchers from...

The making of a molecular movie

August 17, 2018
A team of physicists from the US and Europe has captured the clearest glimpse yet of a photochemical reaction. The researchers precisely recorded how the atomic nuclei and chemical bonds...

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