Lab Manager

New Material Captures and Converts Toxic Air Pollutant into Industrial Chemical

November 25, 2019

Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use...

Artificial Intelligence to Run the Chemical Factories of the Future

November 14, 2019

Previous biofoundry efforts have produced a wide variety of products such as chemicals, fuels, and engineered cells and prote...

Researchers Find Way to Kill Pathogen Resistant to Antibiotics

September 24, 2019

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium present in hospitals, can be killed by hijacking...

Microbe Chews through PFAS and Other Tough Contaminants

September 18, 2019

In recent years, local governments have been seeking ways to reduce the amount of PFAS in water supplies

Reactor Turns Greenhouse Gas into Pure Liquid Fuel

September 3, 2019

Lab's 'green' invention reduces carbon dioxide into valuable fuels

Rewriting the Periodic Table at High Pressure

August 15, 2019

A new study adds an entirely new dimension to the table, offering a new set of principles for material research

A Material Way to Make Mars Habitable

July 16, 2019

Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gases keep Earth warm

'Nanoemulsion' Gels Offer New Way to Deliver Drugs through the Skin

June 25, 2019

Novel materials made with FDA-approved components could deliver large payloads of active ingredients

Engineers Use Tiki Torches in Study of Soot, Diesel Filters

July 27, 2018

Chemical engineers testing methods to improve efficiency of diesel engines while maintaining performance are getting help fro...

Engineered Polymer Membranes Could Be New Option for Water Treatment

May 8, 2018

Engineers studied self-assembled block polymer membranes, which allow for both customizable and uniform pore sizes, as a...

Researchers Developing Renewable Energy Approach for Producing Ammonia

April 5, 2018

The new process utilizes a plasma in combination with non-noble metal catalysts to generate ammonia at much milder conditions...

Chemists Follow Molecules down ‘Nanowells,’ Track Catalytic Reactions in Nanoconfinement

January 31, 2018

Previous studies of such reactions have been limited to theoretical work with simplified models and experiments following a c...

Bright and Shining Molecules for OLEDs and New Drugs

November 13, 2017

An effective method for synthesizing thiophene-containing fluorophores

Discovery Could Reduce Nuclear Waste with Improved Method to Chemically Engineer Molecules

September 18, 2017

Indiana University scientists report new, highly accurate method to predict effectiveness of molecules that extract toxic ele...

New Fluorescent Dyes Could Advance Biological Imaging

September 5, 2017

The work offers scientists a way to adjust the properties of existing dyes deliberately, making them bolder, brighter, and mo...

chemical engineering