News articles tagged with 'solvent'
Organic solvent system may improve catalyst recycling and create new nanomedicine uses
— 29 Oct 2010 13:24 | HealthNoble metals such as platinum and palladium are becoming increasingly important because of growth in environmentally friendly applications such as fuel cells and pollution control catalysts.…
Help from the dark side
— 9 Aug 2010 07:01 | ChemistrySpectroscopic techniques are among the most important methods by which scientists can look inside materials. They exploit the interaction of light waves with a given sample…
Molecules delivering drugs as they walk
— 4 Aug 2010 08:40 | HealthAn octopus-like polymer can 'walk' along the wall of a narrow channel as it is pushed through by a solvent. Now research in The Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the…
Researchers apply chemistry to restoration of paintings and dating of signatures
— 3 Jun 2010 13:43 | ChemistryProviding solutions to any current problem is the mission of analytical chemistry, according to Ms Rosa Alonso, director of the Farmartem Research Group at the University of the Basque…
Queen's University professor's chemistry discovery may revolutionise cooking oil production
— 30 Mar 2010 10:26 | ChemistryPhilip Jessop, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, has created a solvent that - when combined with carbon dioxide - extracts oil from soybeans. Industries currently make cooking…
A new way forward for nanocomposite nanostructures
— 20 Mar 2010 15:18 | TechnologyScientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign recently reported a new technique for directly writing composites of nanoparticles…
Exotic life beyond Earth? Looking for life as we don't know it
— 19 Sep 2009 12:00 | AstronomyScientists at a new interdisciplinary research institute in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with 'exotic' biochemistry and solvents, such as sulphuric acid instead…
A new method to cleaner and more efficient CO2 capture
— 23 Jul 2009 16:34 | ChemistrySeparating carbon dioxide from its polluting source, such as the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant, may soon become cleaner and more efficient…
Launch of new technology for safer solvents
— 1 Jun 2009 13:48 | TechnologyThe launch of a new facility that will revolutionise the industrial processes of electropolishing, metal oxide processing and electroplating will take place on 3rd June at 4 PM, when…
Alzheimer's: New findings resolve long dispute about how the disease might kill brain cells
— 16 Apr 2009 13:35 | HealthFor a decade, Alzheimer's disease researchers have been entrenched in debate about one of the mechanisms believed to be responsible for brain cell death and memory loss in the illness…