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Pressure engineering reveals organic–inorganic interaction sites in hybrid perovskites
A Jilin University team has reported a novel strategy using pressure engineering to identify the organic–inorganic interaction sites in non-hydrogen-bonded hybrid metal perovskites. This approach offers valuable guidance ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2025
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Serendipitous discovery reveals how stress and chemistry etch mysterious spiral patterns
UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally left out overnight. The layered sample consisted of a germanium wafer topped with evaporated metal ...
Materials Science
Mar 13, 2025
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Nature-inspired ceramic fiber aerogels advance thermal insulation
Recently, a research group led by Prof. Wang Zhenyang and Zhang Shudong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a new type of ceramic fiber aerogel, SiC@SiO₂, featuring ...
Materials Science
Mar 13, 2025
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Pressurized electrolyzer achieves high-current NH₃ synthesis from nitrogen oxide
Electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) offers a promising route for sustainable ammonia (NH3) synthesis and for removing NO pollutants. However, achieving NH3 production from NO with ampere-level current ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Supramolecular organic framework achieves high-efficiency iodine capture from seawater
Iodine is a crucial element in various industries, but it is one of the least abundant nonmetallic elements on Earth. Although seawater holds around 70% of the world's iodine reserves, its low concentrations—approximately ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Neutron imaging reveals optimization potential for CO₂ conversion
The environmentally harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, or CO₂ for short, can be converted into valuable chemical products such as carbon monoxide (CO) or ethanol by means of electrochemical reduction—electrolysis. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Eco-friendly rare earth element separation: A bioinspired solution to an industry challenge
From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced technologies. These elements, which include the lanthanides along with scandium and yttrium, are the backbone ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Chemists discover new method to transform carbon dioxide to formate
The world's demand for alternative fuels and sustainable chemical products has prompted many scientists to look in the same direction for answers: converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide (CO).
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Incorporating Gd into Fe-doped nickel oxide markedly enhances oxygen evolution reaction activity
Producing clean hydrogen energy usually involves the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which has the unfortunate drawback of being sluggish and inefficient. Catalysts can fast-track this process, but it is no easy task finding ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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New theory on dense gases and liquids could aid carbon capture
The transport of dense gases and liquids is becoming increasingly relevant in relation to carbon capture. Research published in The Journal of Chemical Physics is helping us understand more about how this can be done most ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air
Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.
Materials Science
Mar 11, 2025
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DNL-17: Researchers synthesize small-pore aluminophosphate molecular sieve for selective adsorption, energy storage
Aluminophosphate (AlPO) molecular sieves (MSs) are crystalline microporous materials made from alternating PO4 tetrahedra and AlO4 tetrahedra, forming ordered channel systems and cage-like structures.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berkelocene'
A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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Self-optimizing catalysts facilitate water-splitting for the green production of hydrogen
Hydrogen is a much-debated option in terms of CO₂-neutral energy production. Electrolyzer units that split water into its constituent oxygen and storable hydrogen are supplied with electricity from renewable resources, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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Catalyst uses just water and oxygen for greener and simpler industrial chemical production
Researchers have developed a simple, sustainable and economic way to make the common household and industrial chemical, hydrogen peroxide. The novel method also opens potential pathways to the production of other chemicals ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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Amino acid assists in recycling rechargeable batteries
A new strategy for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries is based on a hydrometallurgical process in neutral solution. This allows for the extraction of lithium and other valuable metals in an environmentally friendly, highly ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2025
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A round-trip journey of electrons: Electron catalysis enables direct fixation of N₂ to azo compounds
Nitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an extremely high bond dissociation energy (~940.95 kJ mol⁻¹), making its activation and conversion ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2025
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Rational design of precatalysts boosts hydrogen production efficiency
In order to meet our goals for carbon neutralization by the 2050s, we need environmentally friendly fuels. Catalysts (and their precursor, precatalysts) are key components in the electrochemical water-splitting reaction that ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2025
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Advancing catalysis: Novel porous thin-film approach enhances reaction efficiency
Catalytic function and its efficiency play a significant role in industrial reactions, and consistent reforms are made in the methodology to enhance the large-scale synthesis of drugs, polymers, and other desired products. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2025
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Aluminum atom mapping in zeolites promises better catalysts
Zeolites, crystalline materials widely used in the petrochemical industry, serve as pivotal catalysts in the production of fine chemicals, with aluminum being the source of active sites within zeolite structures. A research ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2025
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