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Ground-Breaking Research into Molecular Depleted Uranium Chemistry

News - 19 Nov 2009

A scientist at The University of Nottingham has been recognised for his outstanding and creative early career research with a prestigious €1m (£893,775) grant to study speculative and...

Scientists from Europe and Canada are Studying Tiny Gold Nanoparticles

News - 5 Aug 2008

Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms. For example,...

Kanazawa University Research: Chirality Inversion in a Helical Molecule at Controlled Speeds

News - 7 Feb 2019

A strategy to invert the chirality of a metal-containing helical molecule controlling the speed of the response is reported in Chemistry, A European Journal by researchers at Kanazawa...

Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries.

News - 26 Mar 2018

A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors — a key component of rechargeable batteries — could accelerate the development of high-energy lithium batteries, and possibly...

New Bio-Inspired Zeolite Catalyst Enables Effective Methane Conversion

News - 2 Jul 2015

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universität München (TUM), Eindhoven University of Technology and University of...

UD Researcher’s New Approach to Create Organic Zeolites

News - 24 Jul 2014

Yushan Yan, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Delaware, is known worldwide for using nanomaterials to solve problems in energy engineering, environmental sustainability and...

Gold-Indium Alloy Nanoparticles Exposed to Air Become Catalytic Nanostructures

News - 12 Jun 2013

Gold bars may signify great wealth, but the precious metal packs a much more practical punch when shrunk down to just billionths of a meter. Unfortunately, unlocking gold's potential often...

Researchers Develop New Kind of Platinum to Make Cheaper Fuel Cells

News - 27 Apr 2010

A new form of platinum that could be used to make cheaper, more efficient fuel cells has been created by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the...

Nanolithographic Technique Producing High-Res Patterns of Chemicals on a Single Chip

News - 15 Dec 2009

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of up to one...

New Look at the Way Nanoparticles are Selected When Studying Impacts on Human Health and Environment

News - 13 Sep 2009

The same properties of nanoparticles that make them so appealing to manufacturers may also have negative effects on the environment and human health. However, little is known which particles...