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Gasification Goes Green

January 13, 2020

Rice University's low-temp photocatalyst could slash the carbon footprint for syngas

Chemists Find New Way to Break Down Old Tires into Material for New Ones

January 13, 2020

New method addresses the enormous environmental burden posed by tires, approximately 3 billion of which were manufacture...

Study: How US Sewage Plants Can Remove Medicines from Wastewater

January 9, 2020

New research shows that technologies are available, but the upgrades can be expensive

It's a Small (Coal-Polluted) World, after All

January 3, 2020

Study suggests that coal-burning activities in the Asia-Pacific region have influenced environmental conditions in the United...

Tweaks Behind the Rebirth of Nearly Discarded Organic Solar Technologies

December 30, 2019

In just the last four years, tuning non-fullerene acceptors chemistry has boosted organic photovoltaic technology from initia...

Mechanical Force as a New Way of Starting Chemical Reactions

December 26, 2019

Within the last 10 years, there has been extensive research on "photoredox catalysts" that can be activated by visible light ...

High-Power LED Photoreactor for Continuous Flow Chemistry

December 19, 2019

The availability of three new alternative switchable LED configurations (blue, UVA-blue and blue-green-white) provides chemis...

Flow Detector Monitors Dispersion in Real Time

December 19, 2019

Designed for use with almost any commercially available flow chemistry system, Flow-UV™ allows dispersion experiments t...

How We Transport Water in Our Bodies Inspires New Water Filtration Method

December 17, 2019

A recent study was initially inspired by the way our cells transport water throughout the body and began as an attempt t...

Brewing Beer That Tastes Fresh Longer

December 5, 2019

Researchers have engineered lager yeast to make more molecules that protect beer against staling, resulting in improved ...

Smog-Eating Graphene Composite Reduces Atmospheric Pollution

December 4, 2019

Researchers have developed a graphene-titania photocatalyst that degrades up to 70 percent more atmospheric nitrogen oxi...

On Balance, Some Neonicotinoid Pesticides Could Benefit Bees

November 28, 2019

New research on one of the permitted neonicotinoids indicates it effectively controls pests and might even help bees...

Industrial Bread Dough Kneaders Could Use Physics-Based Redesign

November 27, 2019

There's a specific amount of kneading involved to create high-quality bread dough, and researchers in Germany are using physi...

Leftover Grain from Breweries Could Be Converted into Fuel for Homes

November 26, 2019

Breweries in the EU throw out around 3.4 million tons of unspent grain every year, weighing the equivalent of 500,000 elephan...

Photoinitiators Detected in Human Breast Milk

November 22, 2019

However. researchers say the levels consumed by breastfeeding infants are unlikely to be a health concern

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