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Graphene-wrapped zeolite membranes for fast hydrogen separation
The effects of global warming are becoming more serious, and there is a strong demand for technological advances to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Hydrogen is an ideal clean energy which produces water when burned. To promote ...
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Organic polymeric scintillators excite the X-ray community
X-ray detection is of great importance in diverse applications, such as radiation detection, medical diagnosis, and security inspection. A popular way to achieve X-ray detection is to integrate a photodetector with a luminescent ...
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May 17, 2022
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New theory promises to reshape how we think about polymer superstructures
Polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal Nature Communications that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a nanoscale structure, formed by collections of ...
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May 16, 2022
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Heterogeneous ethylene hydroformylation enables highly efficient industrial production of propanal/n-propanol
Olefins, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide can be converted to aldehydes by the hydroformylation of olefins. Upon further conversion, chemicals including alcohols, acids, and esters are obtained.
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May 16, 2022
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Improved method to make branched polymers
Branched polymers, polymers that look like tiny tree branches, have significant potential for water filtration, the biomedical field, nanoelectronics, and other applications. Researchers have now come up with a better way ...
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May 16, 2022
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A promising solution to improve the surface hydrophobicity of hydrophobic membranes
As many chemists know, the membrane distillation (MD) process has gained increasing popularity and attention for saline treatment, especially because of its extremely high salt rejection (the theoretical value up to 100%). ...
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May 11, 2022
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Scientists show how to store liquid fuels in polymeric gels to prevent explosions and fires
Liquid fuels with high energy density are essential in many applications where chemical energy is converted into controlled motion, such as in rockets, gas turbines, boilers, and certain vehicle engines. Besides their combustion ...
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May 11, 2022
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Self-propelled, endlessly programmable artificial cilia
For years, scientists have been attempting to engineer tiny, artificial cilia for miniature robotic systems that can perform complex motions, including bending, twisting, and reversing. Building these smaller-than-a-human-hair ...
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May 06, 2022
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Biomedical polymers: Synthesis, properties, and applications
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of biomedical fields, such as drug delivery, disease detection/diagnosis, biosensing, regenerative medicine, and disease treatment. For ...
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Apr 29, 2022
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Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.
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Apr 27, 2022
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Using melt polymerization to fabricate robust covalent organic framework foams
Adsorption-based (e.g., gas or liquid molecules) separation technologies have shown unique economic and environmental advantages in specific applications. In industrial applications, ideal high-efficiency adsorbents require ...
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Apr 22, 2022
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A new solution for wastewater remediation
Synthetic dyes are used across a wide variety of industries and constitute a serious concern when it comes to water pollution. These dyes are not only toxic, but they also persist in the environment for a long time without ...
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Apr 14, 2022
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New polymer materials make fabricating optical interconnects easier
Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. The polymers can be used to easily ...
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Apr 13, 2022
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New AI technique could lead to innovations in biomaterials
Innovation often leads to new products, but new methods can be just as groundbreaking.
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Apr 06, 2022
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Watching how a covalent polymer develops using a scanning tunneling microscope
A team of researchers from KU Leuven, the University of Aveiro, OLYMAT, the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science has used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to observe ...
Water helps in the unexpected and ultrafast synthesis of collagen-like synthetic poly-L-proline
In work published online recently in National Science Review, a team led by Prof. Hua Lu from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University reported a surprising finding. In the process of studying ...
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Apr 01, 2022
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New polymer membrane tech improves efficiency of carbon dioxide capture
Researchers have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gases, such as emissions from power plants.
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Apr 01, 2022
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Enhancing the electromechanical behavior of a flexible polymer
Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress into electricity, or vice versa, and can be useful in sensors, actuators and many other applications. But implementing piezoelectrics in polymers—materials composed of molecular ...
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Mar 24, 2022
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Breaking down plastic into its constituent parts
A team of ETH researchers led by Athina Anastasaki have succeeded in breaking down plastic into its molecular building blocks and in recovering over 90% of them. A first step towards genuine plastic recycling. The chemical ...
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Mar 24, 2022
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Upcycling polyester could reduce plastic waste
Less than 10% of the 380 million metrics tons of annually produced plastics are currently recycled in the U.S., creating a global environmental threat caused by plastic production and the absorption of millions of tons of ...
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