Chemistry

Every year the pharmaceutical industry fabricates medicines whose molecular backbones share one deceptively simple feature: a carbon atom bearing a...

Inside every living cell, a chaotic molecular bazaar is in full swing, and chemists have long dreamed of tools that...

Platinum has long been regarded as the benchmark catalyst for the hydrogen oxidation reaction, the electrochemical process that converts hydrogen...

Solar technology has spent years chasing a difficult combination: higher efficiency without sacrificing durability. A new perovskite design could bring...

Medicines Are Turning Up in Food Crops Fertilized With Wastewater, Manure and Biosolids As cities search for ways to conserve...

A catalyst made from gold and copper oxide could offer a cleaner route to methyl lactate, a versatile chemical used...

A biodegradable plastic built from the same chemical family used in many everyday polymers could be transformed by an unexpected...

Researchers converted spent tea leaves into a nitrogen- and iron-doped magnetic biochar that removed up to 96.90 percent of hexavalent...

A review finds that tunable perovskite semiconductors could use light-generated reactive species to degrade persistent dyes in wastewater, while highlighting...

A potash alum-catalyzed microwave process produced eleven spiro-benzothiazoles in 20 minutes, highlighting distinct anticancer, antioxidant and antibacterial lead compounds.