Industrial Engineering/Chemistry

New technology can find the safest way to store and dispose of reactive chemicals Improperly mixed chemicals cause a shocking number of fires, explosions, and injuries in laboratories, businesses, and homes each year. A new open source…

Combined chemical and bioanalytical methods are able to efficiently characterize chemical mixturesCredit: Bodo Tiedemann Chemicals have improved our quality of life. But at the same time, they pose a considerable risk for humans and the…

New functionalities, improvements make it very robust, efficient and feature-richCredit: Valerio Vitale @Imperial College London Wannier functions were first introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937 as an alternative way of describing the…

Credit: Atomic Layer Deposition Lab, MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have managed to grow atomically thin films of molybdenum disulfide spanning up to several tens of square centimeters. It was…

Credit: Ryan Moriarty/UW Tacoma The waters of Puget Sound support many species, including mussels, salmon and killer whales. But researchers know that runoff from land in the urbanized areas might contain chemicals that…

Chemistry professors develop an electrochemical method for extracting uranium, and potentially other metal ions, from solution Fifty years ago, scientists hit upon what they thought could be the next rocket fuel. Carboranes -- molecules…

Floodlight™ software processes data to find known, unknown elements in range of products, materials SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 21, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute is introducing Floodlight™, a novel software tool that…

Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, aluminum coatings that protect cathodesCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2020) - The process of developing better rechargeable batteries may be cloudy, but…

Credit: CMU College of Engineering Despite the prominent health threat posed by fine particulate pollution, fundamental aspects of its formation and evolution continue to elude scientists. This is true especially for the organic…

Credit: Universidad de Córdoba In 2009, 105 single-family homes in the city of Cordoba were demolished in order to expand the airport. At first, the debris from the demolition was going to be sent to a landfill, as is common procedure.…