3+ hour, 9+ min ago  (593+ words) Pittcon 2026 takes place from 7-11 March at San Antonio's Henry B Gonz'lez Convention Center, combining technical excellence with cultural immersion as thousands of scientists gather for the premier analytical chemistry and laboratory science conference. Pittcon 2026 is set to take place in…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (266+ words) The water-based membrane lets carbon dioxide through the nanopores far faster than other gases as it dissolves in water more readily A thin water layer stabilised by hydrophilic nanopores can facilitate carbon dioxide separation. The new membrane shows better selectivity…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1648+ words) Ball milling is an exciting area of chemistry and reactions require little, if any, solvent. But what if the ball milling process itself has unexpected'effects on a reaction?' So, her student set out to investigate; he measured abrasion and carried…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (283+ words) Metal'organic frameworks" versatility and enormous surface area has meant that there has been a great deal of interest in this class of materials One surprise was the global distribution of MOF publications ' China contributed 59% of them publishing nearly 81,000 papers in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (441+ words) A demonstration of how easily the coating can be applied, creating easy-clean clothing Stained and dirty clothes could one day be washed by simply rinsing them with water thanks to a new self-cleaning coating for textiles. The researchers say it…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (354+ words) Committees within the European Chemicals Agency (Echa) are supporting an EU-wide restriction on the production, marketing and use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This marks "a major step" in dealing with these "forever chemicals", with regulatory measures that are…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (457+ words) Millions of nitrile gloves are thrown away in labs every year as they are so hard to recycle However, small modifications to the existing polymer structure can transform these properties and two research groups have now developed complementary procedures to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (358+ words) Rebecca Trager meets an organic chemist catalysing the search for BPA replacements by connecting synthetic chemists, data scientists, toxicologists and polymer chemists Finding a replacement for the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) was never going to be solved by synthesis…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (273+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term often incorrectly used to encompass a variety of connected but simpler processes. AI "is the ability of machines and computer programmes to perform tasks that typically only humans could do, such as reasoning,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (575+ words) A new method that captures and detects "hidden" diazo metabolites has identified two of them in a bacterium that causes lung disease " the first time diazo-containing natural products have been discovered in a human pathogen. The approach could be useful…...