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Analytical Chemistry Mar 25, 2024

Enhancing fire safety: The emergence of PA-DAD as a sustainable flame retardant for epoxy resin composites

Epoxy resin (EP), an essential material in various applications such as adhesives, coatings, and composites, faces challenges due to its intrinsic flammability and dense smoke production, posing threats to safety and property. ...

Biotechnology Mar 25, 2024

A microalgae–material hybrid promotes carbon neutrality

Microalgae, including cyanobacteria and green algae, represent the most important biological systems for producing biomass and high-value products. It is estimated that microalgae can fix about 90 billion tons of carbon dioxide ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 22, 2024

A reliable and efficient computational method for finding transition states in chemical reactions

A computational method for finding transition states in chemical reactions, greatly reducing computational costs with high reliability, has been devised. Compared to the most widely used existing method, the present method ...

Environment Mar 22, 2024

Exploring China's water usage trends and sustainability

Against the backdrop of growing global concern over water scarcity, China, has been grappling with the complexities of water dynamics and their impact on economic growth and environmental protection. A study published in ...

Astronomy Mar 21, 2024

Heat to blame for space pebble demise

The dust of comets fills the space between the planets, collectively called the zodiacal cloud. Still, severe breakdown has reduced that dust in size so much that it now scatters sunlight efficiently, causing the faint glow ...

Earth Sciences Mar 17, 2024

Greenland Ice Sheet motion minimally impacted by late-season melting, study finds

Ice melting has become an ever-pressing concern in recent decades as climate change has brought evocative images of lone polar bears floating on unsustainable small blocks of sea ice. Yet, the consequences are far-reaching ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 15, 2024

Researchers develop a new strategy to enhance blue perovskite LED performance

Prof. Cui Linsong's research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), cooperating with Prof. Samuel D. Stranks' team from the University of Cambridge, devised a novel strategy to enhance the performance ...

Earth Sciences Mar 7, 2024

Geologists find that low-relief mountain ranges are the largest carbon sinks

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20° Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such stable temperatures, Earth must ...

Environment Mar 7, 2024

Fewer fish and more algae? Scientists seek to understand impacts of historic lack of Great Lakes ice

Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.

Earth Sciences Mar 6, 2024

Ever heard of the Maritime Continent? It's not far from Australia—and channels heat around the world

Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, North and South America, Europe—and the Maritime Continent.

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