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- Atomic-Level Insights Help To Reduce Degradation In Fuel Cells And Extend Their Lifetime 14/09/2020 Vehicles powered by polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are energy-efficient and eco-friendly, but despite increasing public interest in PEMFC-powered transportation, current performance of materials that are used in fuel cells limits their widespread commercialization.
- An Environmentally Friendly Way To Transform Silicon Into Nanoparticles 11/09/2020 Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling.
- AI Reactivity Predictor Considers Both Molecular And Electronic Properties 09/09/2020 Scientists in South Korea have devised a machine-learning model that can predict the chemical reactivity of organic materials.
- 3-D–Printable Material Purifies Biogas At Low Cost 04/09/2020 A simple sorbent could make biogas production from dairy farms and other small-scale operations economically feasible
- The Chemistry Behind The Beirut Explosion 03/09/2020 Devastating blast at port in Lebanon blamed on poorly stored ammonium nitrate
- Largest Molecular Quantum Computation Performed 02/09/2020 Scientists find ways to deal with quantum-computing errors
- Laser Writing Of Nitrogen-Doped Silicon Carbide For Biological Modulation 31/08/2020 In materials science, conducting and semiconducting materials can be embedded in insulating polymeric substrates for useful biointerface applications.
- Researchers Discover Superconductor With Unexpected Lattice Configuration 28/08/2020 An international team has discovered that compressing monocrystalline (TaSe4)2I can create a system where the constituent TaSe4Q1-D atomic chains are in amorphous state without breaking the orientational and periodic translation symmetries of the chain lattice.
- NMR Findings Suggest Solution To Enhanced Diffusion Dispute 26/08/2020 Chemical theory assumes that substances move passively during reactions – but data from organic reactions are the latest to undermine this dogma.
- Superfluid Helium Nanoreactor Takes Single Atom Catalysis Understanding To The Next Level 24/08/2020 Chemists have isolated a gold atom in a super-cooled liquid helium nanoreactor to create a single atom catalyst that avoids surface interactions.
- Computational Method Challenges NMR Metabolomics Dogma 21/08/2020 Researchers in the UK have found a simple mathematical process that efficiently suppresses the NMR signals of macromolecules in biological samples to leave behind quantitative small molecule data.