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Advincula Earns Frank Tiller Award for Filtration Advances
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (298+ words) Newswise DOE SCIENCE NEWS SOURCE Advincula Earns Frank Tiller Award for Filtration Advances Newswise " Rigoberto Advincula has earned the Frank Tiller Award from the American Filtration and Separations Society for leadership in engineering and education. A polymer researcher at the…...
Integrating experimental data and mechanistic modeling to assess potential lead exposure from tampon use
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (227+ words) | Newswise Newswise Integrating experimental data and mechanistic modeling to assess potential lead exposure from tampon use Newswise " Trace levels of lead (Pb) have been reported in tampons, prompting concerns about potential exposure during menstrual product use. However, the presence of…...
SKKU Research Team Awakens "Hidden Oxygen" to Produce Green Hydrogen
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) | Newswise Newswise SKKU Research Team Awakens "Hidden Oxygen" to Produce Green Hydrogen Schematic illustration of atomic bond engineering via a top-down materials design strategy, the resulting electrochemical reaction pathways, and energy conversion device applications. Newswise " A joint research team led…...
SKKU Research Team Awakens "Hidden Oxygen" to Produce Green Hydrogen
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) | Newswise Newswise SKKU Research Team Awakens "Hidden Oxygen" to Produce Green Hydrogen Schematic illustration of atomic bond engineering via a top-down materials design strategy, the resulting electrochemical reaction pathways, and energy conversion device applications. Newswise " A joint research team led…...
Proteins That Create Ice Inspire "Cool" Applications | Newswise
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (32+ words) Ice-nucleating proteins naturally bind only to organic surfaces, so understanding whether they can bind to human-made materials can help with applications like deicing, creating artificial snow, cryo-medicine, and more....
Covalent Organic Frameworks Unlock Next-Generation Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (454+ words) | Newswise Newswise Covalent Organic Frameworks Unlock Next-Generation Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells Engineering "proton highways" with covalent organic frameworks for next-generation fuel cells. This schematic illustrates two key strategies'nanoconfinement dispersion and in situ synthesis'for integrating covalent organic frameworks (COFs)…...
Making green hydrogen more affordable
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (259+ words) Empa researcher Konstantin Egorov coats stainless steel components with corrosion-resistant titanium oxide to make the production of green hydrogen more cost-effective. Hydrogen can partially replace fossil fuels, which makes it a cornerstone of the energy transition. The idea is simple:…...
Controlling chemical reactions more efficiently and sustainably
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (347+ words) A reaction product crystallises: the new method developed by chemists in Vienna uses migrating positive charges to trigger chemical reactions with pinpoint accuracy at previously hard-to-reach sites on a molecule. The precise modification of C'H bonds is therefore considered one…...
Beyond lithium: The rise of all-organic batteries for a sustainable energy future
1+ week, 1+ day ago (353+ words) | Newswise Newswise Beyond lithium: The rise of all-organic batteries for a sustainable energy future Regulating transition-metal migration to enhance Li-ion reinsertion. Conventional metal-ion batteries depend heavily on flammable organic liquid electrolytes, which pose serious fire risks and allow metal dendrites…...
SKKU Research Team Reveals Chemical Pathway for Next-Generation Infrared III'V Nanocrystals
1+ week, 1+ day ago (339+ words) Metal'amide chemistry provides a rational approach to controlling heavy-pnictogen reduction, paving the way for safer and more scalable semiconductor quantum dots. A research team led by Professor Sohee Jeong at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered a key chemical pathway for the…...