Industrial Engineering/Chemistry

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have found a way to convert the aromatic substance vanillin into a redox-active electrolyte material for liquid batteries. The technology is an important step towards…

Credit: ©ICFO Broadband light emission in the infrared has proven to be of paramount importance for a large range of applications that include food quality and product/process monitoring, recycling, environmental sensing and…

Berkeley Lab scientists gain insight into charge generation induced by light; could enable the design of better solar fuels devicesCredit: Berkeley Lab In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising…

A new research project is aiming to develop a camera-based separation system that can separate plastic waste according to type. Implemented at plastic recyclers, the industry will be able to significantly increase the use of recycled…

Sensors will enable unmanned aircraft systems to adapt to different fuel typesCredit: UIC/Jim Young The University of Illinois Chicago has received an $8 million award from the Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, to support the…

A team of scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with their colleagues from Austria, Turkey, Slovakia, Russia (MISIS, MSU), and the UK found a way to hydrogenate thin metallic glass layers at room temperature. This…

Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great…

The article by Dr. Bimal Banik and colleagues is published in Current Organic Synthesis, 2020 Steroid hybrid molecules have recently attracted great attention from researchers in recent years owing to their bioactive properties. Earlier a…

Osaka City University discovers metal ions as key component in exploring the use of CO2 as a raw material through artificial photosynthesis.Credit: Yutaka Amao, Osaka City University Osaka, Japan - Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels…

The article by Dr. Bimal Banik and colleagues is published in Current Organic Chemistry, 2020 Organic synthesis in water has attracted the attention of chemists for several years. Water is considered as nature's universal solvent and…

A new approach to reduce fuel cell crossoverCredit: Christian Fleury The research team of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Professor Mohamed Mohamedi has designed a green membraneless fuel cell that uses oxygen…

Credit: Marcos Gil-Sepulcre (ICIQ) Researchers from the Llobet group have developed a new molecular material made out of oligomers and used it as a catalyst in water oxidation, achieving unprecedented current densities for molecular…

Discovery of a topological change of an interfacial hydrodynamics by a partial miscibility and creating a cross-disciplinary discipline of chemical thermodynamics and interfacial hydrodynamicsCredit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/TUAT, Takahiko Ban/…

Researchers from RMIT University have developed an eco-friendly zero-cement concrete, which all but eliminates corrosionCredit: Copyright Museums Victoria, Photographer: Rob Zugaro Researchers from RMIT University have…

Chemists at the University of Jena develop new polymer electrolytes for redox flow batteriesCredit: (Image: Philipp Borchers/University of Jena) (Jena, Germany) The share of energy from renewable sources is constantly on the rise…

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers led by The University of Tokyo employed a new computer model to simulate the networks of force-carrying particles that give amorphous solids…

Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering Aerospace engineering graduate student Pranay Thangeda relies on the bus system in Champaign-Urbana to get to class and other meetings. He wanted to understand why, despite arriving at…

At the University of Ottawa, science, technology, engineering, math, or STEM are a way of life. It represents an active research field, a concept where ideas collide, and a transformative approach to learning. It also happens to be the…

Credit: NTU Singapore Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced in mice, using a new approach that turns a nanoparticle into a 'Trojan horse' that causes cancer cells to self-destruct, a research…

Credit: Ben Jaszczak/Michigan Tech Michigan Tech's Open Sustainability Technology (MOST) Lab developed three new open-source tools in response to COVID-19: a high-temperature 3D printer, a firefighter PAPR mask and a printable,…