11+ hour, 16+ min ago   (98+ words) Schematic illustration of SOEC-driven electrochemical upgrading of alkanes to olefins, highlighting O-SOEC and H-SOEC reaction routes and corresponding product pathways EurekAlert! Schematic illustration of SOEC-driven electrochemical upgrading of alkanes to olefins, highlighting O-SOEC and H-SOEC reaction routes and corresponding product…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (183+ words) Turkmenportal.com John Goodenough, creator of the lithium-ion battery and Nobel Prize winner, died on June 25 at the age of 100. This was reported at the University of Texas, where he has worked since 1986. The cause of death was not disclosed....

22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

1+ day, 39+ min ago   (783+ words) Fluorinated waste streams have long been among the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and few sources illustrate the challenge better than aqueous film-forming foam, the firefighting agent that has contaminated soil and groundwater around airports, military bases…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (660+ words) Two of the most troublesome greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, can be forced to react with one another in a process known as dry reforming of methane, a reaction that converts both pollutants into valuable synthesis gas, a mixture…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (72+ words) Benzene is one of the most insidious chemicals that ordinary people encounter every day. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen, meaning there is established evidence that it causes cancer in humans, with…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (79+ words) A sweeping review published in Discover Electrochemistry has consolidated more than a decade of progress on MXenes, a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides that many researchers now regard as the most versatile nanoarchitecture in modern energy…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (614+ words) Chemists have long relied on a single trick to make the inert atoms of the p-block of the periodic table behave like reactive metals: bend them out of shape....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (350+ words) Scientists at Uppsala University have taken a significant step toward a long-sought goal in industrial biotechnology: using sunlight and carbon dioxide to feed engineered microbes that churn out valuable chemicals. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Stamatina…...