These chemists cracked the code to long-lasting Roman concrete
MIT chemist Admir Masic really hoped his experiment wouldn’t explode.
Masic and his colleagues were trying to re-create an ancient Roman…
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Simple method destroys dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ making water safe: Using common…
If you're despairing at recent reports that Earth's water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last…
Chemists pin down the cause for energy losses in high-capacity lithium-ion battery cathodes
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An international team,…
Chemists develop a strategy for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells
In collaboration with Professor Nicholas Long from Imperial College, Dr Zhu…
Scientists shave ‘hairs’ off nanocrystals to improve their electronic properties:…
You can carry an entire computer in your pocket today because the technological building blocks have been getting smaller and smaller since the 1950s. But in…
Electron powers a weak but significant bond for building complex structures: Chemists use elementary…
How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a simple and versatile…
Chemists use DNA to build the world’s tiniest antenna
Researchers at Université de Montréal have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported this week in Nature Methods, the device is a…
Chemists’ dye method holds promise for long-term data storage
Amit Nagarkar helped develop a data-storage system that uses fluorescent dyes.…
West Point Chemists Re-Create Medieval Gunpowder Recipes
Making gunpowder is a bit like cooking, except more explosive. Gunpowder makers in the 14th and 15th centuries used black powder brought to Europe from…
Chemists develop novel electrolyser for hydrogen production
Schematic representation of the preparation of the microstructured FeP-CoP embedded…