3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (441+ words) Mirage News Artistic illustration of a light-driven reaction for constructing three-dimensional BCH molecular structures. Image credit: Emily R.-C. Yang. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), led by Professor Jian HE and collaborators, have developed…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (282+ words) A research team from Tohoku University, in collaboration with Hokkaido University and Kyushu University, has taken a major step toward making this a reality by creating a new method for producing and storing H₂. The method is based on a liquid…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (483+ words) While soaring demand for lithium-ion batteries pushes prices higher, Flinders University experts are making headway into launching a safe and more sustainable zinc-iodine rechargeable battery. In their latest study, published in high-profile international journal Angewandte Chemie, the research team has…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (489+ words) BUFFALO, N.Y. — It's one of the origins of life's chicken-or-the-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there were cells to contain them? Without the compartmentalization of a cell, it would have been extremely difficult…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (198+ words) Iowa State University's Steve Martin has answers about the state of his work with batteries and glassy materials. Martin won a major, international award earlier this year that recognizes his engineering achievements. AMES, Iowa - Steve Martin grabbed his office calculator…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (652+ words) < Members of the research team, from left: Prof. Sarah Sunah Park, KAIST; Geunchan Park, doctoral student, POSTECH(co-first author); master graduate Gyuwon Lee, POSTECH (co-first author); Kangmin Kim, POSTECH (second author) > KAIST (President Choongsik Bae) announced on the 19th that a research team led by Sarah S. Park from the Department of Chemistry has developed a new electrode material that sequentially stores zinc ions (Zn²⁺) and protons. The material is based on a two-dimensional…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (255+ words) Cells are enclosed by a cell membrane, which is a sophisticated structure mainly made of lipids and is vital for fundamental biological processes. Artificial lipid membranes have many practical applications, such as drug delivery, but engineering the properties of these…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (580+ words) Wearable health monitors can track heart rate, muscle activity, brain signals and other physiological measurements, but many devices are designed to capture only one type of signal at a time. Recording multiple signals simultaneously is more difficult because sensors must…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (283+ words) Led by chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su, the team's findings were reported in ACS Energy Letters. The new study removes that extra step by redesigning the extraction molecule itself. "This is the first time we've been able to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (342+ words) A genetically engineered bacterium can rapidly break down one of Earth's most abundant minerals, opening a promising new pathway for simultaneously removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and recovering critical elements used in electric vehicle batteries, according to new Cornell…...