Chemistry
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should...
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have combined the best properties of both types of industrial catalysts by encapsulating nanoclusters of a metallic heterogeneous catalyst within the branched arms of the molecules known as dendrimers.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to...
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After many years of painstaking work, Japanese researchers prove third time's a charm.
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Environmentally-friendly process offers intriguing alternative to fossil-fuel based ethylene for chemicals and transportation fuels.
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In 2010 malaria caused an estimated 665,000 deaths, mostly among African children. Now, chemists at Indiana University have developed a new synthesis for the world's most useful antimalarial drug.
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Rust – iron oxide – is a poor conductor of electricity, which is why an electronic device with a rusted battery usually won’t work...
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A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Emory University has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water.
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A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has answered a key question concerning the widely-used Fenton reaction...
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It's time to light up the nighttime skies with plenty of red, white and blue -- and yellow, orange and green, too.
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Chemical reactions on the surface of metal oxides, such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, are important for applications such as solar cells that convert the sun's energy to electricity.
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.
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