Chemists at Boston College have designed a new class of catalysts triggered by the charge of a single proton, the team reports in the most recent edition of the journal Nature. The simple organic molecules offer a sustai ...
Feb 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at Brown and Yale have demonstrated a new "enabling technology" that could use excess carbon dioxide to produce acrylate, a valuable commodity chemical involved in the manufacture ...
Mar 21, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Murdoch University researchers have come up with a new approach to make the recovery of high value precious metals faster and more economically viable.
Mar 06, 2013
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The world's smallest tunnels have a width of a few nanometers only. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Rice University, USA, have dug such tunnels into graphite samples. This will ...
Jan 23, 2013
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Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health. However, this type of pollution is not a recent fact and can ...
Apr 30, 2013
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Optical communications, or photonics, technology has failed to match the miniaturization of electronic components, mainly because of fundamental laws of classical optics. The smallest photonic devices are ...
Jan 30, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Producing sustainable energy demands materials with specific physical and chemical properties that are controlled by the size and electrical charge of small metal particles, and scientists at Pacific Northwest ...
Jan 04, 2013
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(Phys.org)—To slide into nano-sized openings inside minerals, certain metals shed layers of water, according to the NISE (pronounced "nice") theory, first published in 2011 by Dr. Cristian Schulthess and ...
Feb 22, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists from the the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of Maryland have used a combination of electric fields and fluid flow to precisely move and rotate ...
Apr 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Beekeepers and researchers nationally are reporting growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides may be killing off bumblebees. Now, research at the University of Pittsburgh points ...
Apr 02, 2013
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Graphene and related materials hold promise for the future of electrochemical sensors—detectors that measure the concentration of oxygen, toxic gases, and other substances—but many applications require greater sensitivity ...
Jan 17, 2013
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A twist on thin-film technology may provide a way to optically detect and analyze multiple substances simultaneously, leading to quicker diagnostics in such industries as health care and homeland security, ...
Mar 12, 2013
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Max Planck scientists in Jena, Germany, have discovered an unusual regulation of enzymes that catalyze chain elongation in an important secondary metabolism, the terpenoid pathway. In the horseradish leaf ...
Feb 28, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel—in this case fresh gas, but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now scientists have provided ...
Jan 10, 2013
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