Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, recognizing advances in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has thrust reticular materials into the global...

Crystal symmetry may determine whether hydrogen inside vanadium behaves like a classical particle or a quantum wave, according to a...

A team has mapped, in real time and with nanoscale precision, how photogenerated holes travel and react inside a facet-engineered...

Semiconductor surfaces—especially silicon and germanium (100)—owe much of their chemistry to a seemingly simple motif: the “buckled dimer.” In this...

Driven by the urgent need for safe, large-scale energy storage, zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining momentum as a “post-lithium” alternative....

Infrared cameras can reveal clues the human eye misses—such as gas leaks, chemical signatures in the atmosphere, and heat escaping...

A new chemical route could turn society’s most stubborn plastics into a clean hydrogen feedstock—without the sorting step that currently...

Unregulated ultrafine particles—tiny enough to slip through the body’s normal defenses—may be responsible for millions of premature deaths worldwide, according...

Scientists are turning photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) into a more powerful tool for mapping the brain’s microvasculature and oxygen status...

Neutron imaging can reveal how materials are built and how they change, offering exceptional sensitivity to light elements such as...