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Driving Chemical Reactions by Remote Control

April 22, 2019

Scientists designed a quantum device that separates the catalyst from the starting chemicals

Asynt Launches Flexible High Pressure Parallel Reactor

April 10, 2019

The Multicell PLUS is an affordable, compact device

Ensuring Controlled Reactions, from Benchtop to Kilo Scale

April 9, 2019

Versatile chemical reactors are essential for research, scale-up, and production

Rust Never Sleeps

February 5, 2019

PNNL research using atom probe tomography reveals chinks in iron crystals that can 'heal'

Harnessing Light for a Solar-Powered Chemical Industry

January 30, 2019

New tech paves the way for a more sustainable chemical manufacturing industry, one of the globe's biggest energy users

The New Green Alternative for Drug Production

January 9, 2019

The environmentally-friendly strategy offers major advantages over existing methods

A Catalytic Flying Carpet

January 3, 2019

Chemical engineering researchers developed a self-powered microfluidic sheet that wraps, flaps, and creeps

Two Compounds in Coffee May Team Up to Fight Parkinson’s

December 11, 2018

Caffeine plus another compound in coffee beans’ waxy coating may protect against brain degeneration

Solving a 75-Year-Old Mystery Might Provide a New Source of Farm Fertilizer

November 28, 2018

One day, farmers in developing nations could produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from th...

Could Yesterday's Earth Contain Clues for Making Tomorrow's Medicines?

November 21, 2018

Researchers described initial steps toward achieving chemistries that encode information in a variety of conditions that migh...

Chemists Advance Ability to Control Chemical Reactions

October 8, 2018

Discovery offers a taste of the "forbidden fruit" of reaction dynamics

Yellowstone's Steaming Acid Pools of Death

September 6, 2018

The American Chemical Society's Reactions series looks at Yellowstone National Parks famous hot springs.

Best of Both Worlds: Combining Two Skeleton-Building Chemical Reactions

August 9, 2018

Scripps Research scientists have developed a powerful new strategy for synthesizing molecular skeletons of chemicals used in ...

Designer Polymers on Demand

August 8, 2018

Researchers report a new method using light and chemical reactions to control how subunits come together to form polymers wit...

Salt Boosts Creation of 2-D Materials

April 19, 2018

Rice University scientists show how salt lowers reaction temperatures to make novel materials

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