New catalyst found for clean energy fuel
A team of UConn chemists led by professors Steven Suib and James Rusling has developed a new material that could make hydrogen capture more commercially viable and provide a key element for a new...
View ArticleDiscovery of alternative photochemistry on water surfaces
Fatty acids found on the surface of water droplets react with sunlight to form organic molecules, essentially uncovering a previously unknown form of photolysis.
View ArticleNew class of catalysts to transform cheap, widely available hydrocarbons into...
Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington are developing novel ways to use metal ions to activate simple hydrocarbons present in natural gas or petroleum products to produce more complex...
View ArticleNitrogen in ancient rocks a sign of early life
Nitrogen is one of the essential nutrients of life on Earth, with some organisms, such as the kinds of microbes found within the roots of legume plants, capable of converting nitrogen gas into...
View ArticleTeam takes deeper look at unconventional oil and gas
Understanding how oil and gas molecules, water and rocks interact at the nanoscale will help make extraction of hydrocarbons through hydraulic fracturing more efficient, according to Rice University...
View ArticleConstraining the chemistry of carbon-chain molecules in space
The interstellar medium of the Milky Way contains 5-10% of the total mass of the galaxy (excluding its dark matter) and consists primarily of hydrogen gas. There are small but important contributions...
View ArticleWSU research advances energy savings for oil, gas industries
A Washington State University research team has improved an important catalytic reaction commonly used in the oil and gas industries. The innovation could lead to dramatic energy savings and reduced...
View ArticleNewly discovered phenomenon accelerates electrons as they enter a viscous state
A new finding by physicists at MIT and in Israel shows that under certain specialized conditions, electrons can speed through a narrow opening in a piece of metal more easily than traditional theory...
View ArticleUnderstanding gas flow for improved clean energy applications
Scientists have designed mathematical expressions that more accurately estimate gas movement through nanosized pores. This could help improve fuel cell development.
View ArticleImproved corrosion protection with flake-type particles of zinc-phosphate
Large quantities of steel are used in architecture, bridge construction and ship-building. Structures of this type are intended to be long-lasting. Furthermore, even in the course of many years, they...
View ArticleUltrathin semiconducting sheet showing gas-responsive electronic properties...
Gas detectors capable of sensing minute quantities of pollutants could help better monitor air quality. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) researchers have...
View ArticleMethanol detected for first time around young star
Methanol, a key building block for the complex organic compounds that comprise life, has been detected for the first time in the protoplanetary disk of a young, distant star. This finding could help...
View ArticleNewly discovered methane consumers in lakes
When decaying organic matter sinks to the bottom of a lake or ocean, methane is produced as the biomass is broken down. Some of the methane is released from the surface into the atmosphere, where it...
View ArticleResearchers find a surprise just beneath the surface in carbon dioxide...
While using X-rays to study the early stages of a chemical process that can reformulate carbon dioxide into more useful compounds, including liquid fuels, researchers were surprised when the experiment...
View ArticleHelium droplets offer new precision to single-molecule laser measurement
Chemical reactions necessarily involve molecules coming together, and the way they interact can depend on how they are aligned relative to each other. By knowing and controlling the alignment of...
View ArticleStudying argon gas trapped in two-dimensional array of tiny 'cages'
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory had just finished an experiment with a two-dimensional (2D) structure they synthesized for catalysis research when, to...
View ArticleSimulation reveals universal signature of chaos in ultracold reactions
Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium atom, opening the door to new...
View ArticleHubble detects exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system, with an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron.
View ArticleLab develops dual-surface graphene electrode to split water into hydrogen and...
Rice University chemists have produced a catalyst based on laser-induced graphene that splits water into hydrogen on one side and oxygen on the other side. They said the inexpensive material may be a...
View ArticleResearchers devise microreactor to study formation of methane hydrate
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are using a novel means of studying how methane and water form methane hydrate that allows them to examine discrete steps in the process faster and...
View ArticleUltra-fast and ultra-sensitive hydrogen sensor
A KAIST team made an ultra-fast hydrogen sensor that can detect hydrogen gas levels under 1% in less than seven seconds. The sensor also can detect hundreds of parts per million levels of hydrogen gas...
View ArticleScientists discover more about the ingredients for star formation
Astronomers have shed fresh light on the importance of hydrogen atoms in the birth of new stars.
View ArticleNew graphene nano-ribbons lend sensors unprecedented sensitivity
Pinning DNA-sized ribbons of carbon to a gas sensor can boost its sensitivity far better than any other known carbon material, says a new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
View ArticleEvaporation dynamics at the nano- and micro-scale
A new evaporation dynamics study finds that very small droplets evaporate more slowly than predicted by current models. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of...
View ArticleAre red skies at night a shepherd's delight? An astronomer's view
Humans have always used simple observations of nature to try to understand our complex environment and even the wider cosmos. One such example is: "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" and "Red sky at...
View ArticleForest of molecular signals observed in star-forming galaxy
Ryo Ando, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues have observed the galaxy NGC 253 and resolved its locations of star formation down to the scale of a molecular cloud, a star...
View ArticleNeutrons reveal fast methane translational diffusion at the interface of two...
Gas clathrate hydrates are ice-like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are trapped inside crystalline frameworks formed by water molecules. They have attracted considerable attention over the last...
View ArticleThe molecular structure of a forest aroma deconstructed
The fresh, unmistakable scent of a pine forest comes from a medley of chemicals produced by its trees. Researchers have now, for the first time, accurately determined the chemical structure of one of...
View ArticleHot vibrating gases under the electron spotlight
Natural gas is used in refineries as the basis for products like acetylene. The efficiency of gaseous reactions depends on the dynamics of the molecules—their rotation, vibration and translation...
View ArticleNASA-led study solves a methane puzzle
A new NASA-led study has solved a puzzle involving the recent rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, with a new calculation of emissions from global fires. The new study resolves what...
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