News tagged with organic solvents

Researchers develop battery-less chemical detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike many conventional chemical detectors that require an external power source, Lawrence Livermore researchers have developed a nanosensor that relies on semiconductor nanowires, rather ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Putting the pedal to the metal: Lithium metal improves fuel cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water splitting is a clean way to generate hydrogen, which is seen by many as the fuel of the future. Scientists from the Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan now report ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Beyond stain-resistant: New fabric coating actively shrugs off gunk

Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a fabric coating that would give new meaning to the phrase "stain-resistant" -- a coating that would take an active role in sloughing off grease, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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New adhesive for tape, label industry discovered

An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive adhesive that may revolutionize the tape industry - an environmentally benign product that works very well and ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Room Temperature Liquid Porphyrins

(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the treatment of cancer and systems that mimic photosynthesis. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Platinum nanocatalyst could aid drugmakers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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A safe approach to nanotechnology: Boiling up zinc oxide nanorods without toxic solvents

A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia. The approach, described in the current issue of the International Journal of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents

A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led by Professor Rod Ruoff, opening the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New treatments could reduce odors in cotton fabric

Socks, T-shirts and other garments could become less hospitable to odor-causing bacteria, thanks to new antimicrobial treatments being investigated by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in New ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Feasible use of methane as a raw material

A team of EU-funded researchers has moved one step closer to using methane as a raw material.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemists design new polymer structures for use as 'plastic electronics'

Iowa State University's Malika Jeffries-EL says she's studying doing structure-property studies so she can teach old polymers new tricks.

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Iowa State, Ames Lab researcher hunts for green catalysts

L. Keith Woo is searching for cleaner, greener chemical reactions. Woo, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has studied catalysts ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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New invention saves energy, health, climate

A new Danish invention could cut energy use in buildings by 25 percent by creating a better indoor climate. The "CleanAir" invention was recently patented by a researcher in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Paper highlight: Solvent-mediated end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods

Argonne National Laboratory scientists have developed a new method for the controlled end-to-end assembly of rod-shaped gold nanoparticles.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research findings could revolutionise industrial catalysts

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a long-held ambition of scientists to prepare porous solids within which they are able to mimic the sophisticated chemistry performed by nature. Research published today (26th March ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2