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Materials Science Jan 4, 2023

Best of both worlds: New elastic and durable crosslinked anion exchange membranes

Fossil fuels are major contributors to pollution, leading to global warming and erratic climatic fluctuations. Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuels, since they use hydrogen as a source ...

Materials Science Dec 29, 2022

Old trees could become renewable fuels this Christmas

A new paper, published in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal, found that pine needles could be used to produce renewable fuels and value-added chemicals, such as preservatives used in agriculture, using only ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 29, 2022

Researchers develop highly CO-tolerant fuel cell anode catalyst

In a study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition., a research team, led by Prof. Gao Minrui and Prof. Yang Qing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), developed a new catalyst with excellent ...

Bio & Medicine Nov 9, 2022

New research explores nanotech frontiers to mitigate biological threats and decarbonize transportation

Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently had two papers appear in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and ACS Nano that respectively focus on a new approach to filter nanoparticles ...

Nanomaterials Oct 11, 2022

A catalyst alloying platinum with a rare earth element could slash fuel cell costs

Researchers have devised a method for combining high-cost platinum and a low-cost rare earth element, lanthanum, as an alloy to serve as a catalyst in the next generation of fuel cells that will improve their performance ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 4, 2022

Driving high? Chemists make strides toward marijuana breath analyzer

A UCLA chemist and colleagues are now a step closer to their goal of developing a handheld tool similar to an alcohol Breathalyzer that can detect THC on a person's breath after they've smoked marijuana.

Materials Science Jul 25, 2022

Promising new catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen fuel cells hold a lot of promise as sustainable and eco-friendly energy sources to power transportation by land, air and sea. But traditional catalysts used to drive chemical reactions in hydrogen fuel cells are ...

Biochemistry Jun 30, 2022

As these bacteria eat, they generate an unusual triangular molecule that can be used to make jet fuel

Aircrafts transport people, ship goods, and perform military operations, but the petroleum-based fuels that power them are in short supply. In research publishing on June 30 in the journal Joule, researchers at the Lawrence ...

Cell & Microbiology Jun 15, 2022

The new heroics of RNA in cell differentiation

Scientists are increasingly learning of new reasons to appreciate RNA, and the glycolytic enzyme ENO1 seems to have provided yet another in new research from EMBL this week, as published in Molecular Cell.

Molecular & Computational biology Jun 2, 2022

Molecular dance by which a unique bacterium transfers electrons

Imagine you wanted to plug a device into an outlet on your wall, but you didn't have a cord that reached all the way. Instead, all you had were short snippets of wire that, put together, weren't enough to cover the distance ...

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