Hydrogen spillover is exactly what it sounds like. Small metal nanoparticles anchored on a thermally stable oxide, like silica, comprise a major class of catalysts, which are substances used to accelerate chemical reactions ...
Materials Science
Sep 1, 2023
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Developing new materials requires significant time and labor, but some chemists are now hopeful that artificial intelligence (AI) could one day shoulder much of this burden. In a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 10, 2023
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There is a conundrum around rare earth elements (REE). They play a key role in clean energy, as they are vital to the production of lightweight, efficient batteries and essential components in wind turbines. Conversely, conventional ...
Materials Science
Aug 10, 2023
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A rash of storms in Texas in recent years—from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to the deep freeze in 2021—has put big chunks of the population in danger and left millions without electricity or water for long periods.
Nanomaterials
Aug 2, 2023
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A team, led by Academician Yu Shuhong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), delivered a general strategy for the synthesis of ten single-atom doped CoSe2-DETA ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 16, 2023
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Researchers at Binghamton University led research partnering with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—to get ...
Materials Science
Apr 7, 2023
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Technology developed at Argonne can help narrow the field of candidates for molten salts, a new study demonstrates.
General Physics
Dec 15, 2022
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Assuring that a growing global population has access to clean water will require new water treatment methods. One of these next-generation methods involves a form of iron called ferrate, which creates fewer toxic byproducts ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 9, 2022
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When thinking of renewable energy sources, it is often solar or wind that spring to mind first—but what about ocean energy?
Nanophysics
Nov 28, 2022
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The United States has set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50% by 2030. Are we on track to succeed?
Environment
Jun 2, 2022
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