Researchers have created a high performance and selective activated carbon from the dairy industry’s excess milk for scalable carbon capture.
New ‘super light source’ should allow fascinating insights into atoms
International team of scientists proposes plans for high-intensity gamma radiation source at CERN.
Tierui Zhang: Scientific research is a process of exploring the unknown
Celebrating “10 years of Advanced Energy Materials Research,” Tierui Zhang opens up about his scientific career and his rather unique hobby of chemistry stamp collecting.
This month in pictures: June
Here, we take a look at some of the most intriguing scientific images published in June 2020.
A new type of bond: Charge-shift bonds
A newly discovered class of fundamental bonding interactions is changing our understanding of chemistry.
What ever happened to combinatorial materials discovery?
Taking a look at the past, present, and future of combinatorial chemistry in materials research.
Waste carbon dioxide converted to synthetic fuels
Engineers find a neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful materials for industrial products like fuel and plastics.
Flying high on carbon dioxide: Decarbonizing aviation
Two Swiss start-up companies have developed a process to generate aviation fuel from thin air in order to accelerate the industrialization of sustainable aviation fuels.
Macrocycles help create green, fast-charging batteries
Researchers have created a fast-charging battery prototype that uses sodium instead of lithium, and macrocycles to store the chemical energy.
Dissecting molecular vibration
The local vibrational mode theory has raised vibrational spectroscopy to a new level.