#chemical

10:22am, 13th May, 2019

Software library to serve for faster chemical reaction processing

(Kazan Federal University) Big Data has become ubiquitous in recent years, and especially so in disciplines with heterogeneous and complex data patterns. This is particularly true for chemistry.

Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars

2:50pm, 3rd May, 2019

Tech

Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A team from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe an efficient and economically feasible process for producing HMF, a versatile plant-derived chemical considered c...

New digital filter approach aims to improve chemical measurements

12:11am, 2nd May, 2019

Tech

New digital filter approach aims to improve chemical measurements

(Purdue University) A Purdue University professor and expert in measurement science has led a team to design a new filter aimed at helping drug developers and researchers create more exact measurements early in the drug development stage, which can u...

Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports?

5:51am, 26th April, 2019

Nature

Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports?

Critics say changes to the agency’s review process will harm public health-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Song receives George A. Olah Award from the American Chemical Society

10:48pm, 24th April, 2019

Physics

Song receives George A. Olah Award from the American Chemical Society

(Penn State) Chunshan Song, distinguished professor of fuel science in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering and director of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Energy Institute at Penn State, recei...

Scientists develop artificial chemical receptor to assist viral transduction for T cell engineering

12:38pm, 12th April, 2019

Tech

Scientists develop artificial chemical receptor to assist viral transduction for T cell engineering

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A research team, led by Prof. CAI Lintao at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other collaborators developed a 'safe, efficient and universal&#...

Shrinking the carbon footprint of a chemical in everyday objects

2:19pm, 9th April, 2019

Tech

Shrinking the carbon footprint of a chemical in everyday objects

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT chemical engineers have devised an alternative approach to synthesizing epoxides, a type of chemical that is found in many products, including plastics, pharmaceuticals and textiles. Their approach could re...

Scientists pioneer new low-temperature chemical conversion process

9:52pm, 3rd April, 2019

Physics

Scientists pioneer new low-temperature chemical conversion process

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) In a recent study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, chemists have identified a way to convert cyclohexane to cyclohexene or cyclohexadiene, important chemicals in a wide ran...

Chemical innovation by relatives of the ice cream bean explains tropical biodiversity

7:04pm, 14th March, 2019

Humans

Chemical innovation by relatives of the ice cream bean explains tropical biodiversity

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) The back-and-forth relationship between insects and their food plants may drive tropical biodiversity evolution according to work on Barro Colorado Island's 50 hectare plot in Panama.

12:35pm, 7th March, 2019

Nature

Chemical hydrogen storage system

(Wiley) Hydrogen is a highly attractive, but also highly explosive energy carrier, which requires safe, lightweight and cheap storage as well as transportation systems. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, have now developed a che...