Water + air + electricity = hydrogen peroxide
The production of hydrogen peroxide can be much safer and simpler through a process developed at Rice University.
Materials Science
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Use of nanopores could lead to cleaner water
Not all nanopores are created equal. For starters, their diameters vary between 1 and 10 nanometers (nm).
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2019
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New algorithms shown to accelerate biopharmaceutical process
Biopharmaceuticals are necessary, life-saving tools. But the process for making them is time-consuming and costly, particularly when it comes to the process of purification—the removal of unwanted elements like proteins, ...
Biochemistry
Sep 18, 2019
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Programmable swarmbots help make flexible biological tools
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new platform to create biologic drugs using specially engineered bacteria that burst and release useful proteins when they sense that their capsule is becoming too ...
Biochemistry
Sep 17, 2019
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Deepwater Horizon oil buried in Gulf Coast beaches could take decades to biodegrade
Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades, according to a new study by ecologists at Florida State University.
Environment
Sep 10, 2019
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Optical vacuum cleaner can manipulate nanoparticles
Scientists at Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with Russian and international colleagues developed the concept for constructing an "optical vacuum cleaner." Due to its optical properties, it can trap nanoparticles from ...
Nanophysics
Sep 10, 2019
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Materials scientists build a synthetic system with compartments like real cells
Polymer chemists and materials scientists have achieved some notable advances that mimic Nature, but one of the most common and practical features of cells has so far been out of reach—intracellular compartmentalization. ...
Materials Science
Aug 22, 2019
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Lab produces simple fluorescent surfactants
Laboratories use surfactants to separate things, and fluorescent dyes to see things. Rice University chemists have combined the two to simplify life for scientists everywhere.
Materials Science
Aug 5, 2019
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New way to make 3-D carbon components
UD's Kun Fu discovers new way to make 3-D carbon components
Nanomaterials
Jul 31, 2019
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High magnetic field of 10T during activated carbon production improves micropore capacity by 35%
Carbon materials such as nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and graphite are in high demand. Demand is forecast to continue to increase because carbon materials have many beneficial uses and new applications are being ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 17, 2019
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