The Latest Chemistry News and Research//www.washintong.com/materials-news.aspx?CatID=20 en-GB Imagine if a plastic bottle had a circular life cycle, where a used plastic bottle could be returned to its original constituent parts, ready to be remade into a new plastic bottle rather than...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58813 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58813 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:27:00 -0400 Metal-Organic Frameworks Used to Break Down Plastic into Its Component Parts Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58816 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58816 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:26:00 -0400 New Method Transforms Agricultural Waste into State-of-the-Art LEDs Industrial process often generates a large amount of alkaline waste solutions. The existing alkali treatment processes have high investment, complicate and low efficiency. Membrane technology has...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58815 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58815 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:25:00 -0400 Researchers Develop Pervaporation Composite Membrane for Alkaline Wastewater Reclamation A post-doctoral researcher with the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) has made an important step toward understanding how complex mixtures of biomolecular...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58814 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58814 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:25:00 -0400 Insights into How Complex Mixtures of Biomolecular Building Blocks Form Self-Organized Patterns The constant loss of practical capacity and a decrease in the average working voltage has hampered the commercialization of nickel-rich LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811). NMC811 cathodes were conformally...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58797 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58797 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:48:00 -0400 Sulfides Likely to be Important Coating Material to Tackle the Issues of NMCs and Other Layered Cathodes Chemists at Cornell University have discovered a way to use light and oxygen to upcycle polystyrene – a type of plastic found in many common items – into benzoic acid, a product stocked in...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58799 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58799 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0400 Cornell Chemists Discover New Way to Use Light and Oxygen to Upcycle Polystyrene Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), an emerging class of materials that can be used as semiconductors and insulators, have promising potential in various applications due to...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58770 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58770 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:05:00 -0400 High-Yield Production of TMD Nanosheets by an Efficient Electrochemical Exfoliation Method Pyridine is one of the most important structural motifs that widely exist in abundant approved drugs and play an indispensable role in the biological activities of the drugs. Therefore, developing a...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58769 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58769 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:03:00 -0400 A Photocatalytic Method to Achieve Transition-Metal-Free Acetalation-Pyridylation of Alkenes A new trace-level silica analyzer for real-time monitoring of ultrapure water, steam and water chemistry can more accurately protect expensive components, including turbines and heat...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58749 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58749 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:33:00 -0400 New Trace-level Online Silica Analyzer Improves Reliability of Process Water Monitoring In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers reported the optimization of corrosion resistance of alumina ceramics in nitric acid. Study: Optimization of...//www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58718 //www.washintong.com/news.aspx?newsID=58718 Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:46:00 -0400 Scientists Improve Corrosion Resistance of Ceramics in Nitric Acid