Researchers are developing new technologies for membrane separations, which have a wide-range of applications in industry for instance in the purification of oil and natural gas, desalination, solvent nanofiltration and CO2 capture.
May 4th, 2016
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Cargo ships are among the leading sources of pollution on the planet. A low-cost solution for reaching the new targets may come from a start-up, which is developing a nanostructured filter for use in a ship's exhaust stacks.
May 4th, 2016
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Charging produces highly reactive singlet oxygen in lithium air batteries.
May 4th, 2016
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Scientists have experimentally demonstrated that silicon nanoparticles are able to significantly increase the intensity of what is known as the Raman effect.
May 4th, 2016
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Highly directional single photon source concept is expected to lead to a significant progress in producing compact, cheap, and efficient sources of quantum information bits for future applications.
May 4th, 2016
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An older technology once de rigueur for preventing spacecraft gadgetry from getting too hot or too cold has been resurrected and repurposed for an emerging class of small satellites now playing an increasingly larger role in space exploration, technology demonstration, and scientific research.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreResearchers make ultra-low-cost, easy to fabricate 'lasing capsules' with an inkjet printer.
May 3rd, 2016
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Chemists have developed a new tool that allows scientists for the first time to see nanoscale mixing processes occurring in liquids.
May 3rd, 2016
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No one has yet detected the quantum physical effect of entanglement directly with the naked eye. This should now be possible thanks to an experiment proposed by a team of physicists.
May 3rd, 2016
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A clean, climate-friendly energy source that is virtually inexhaustible: This is the promise artificial photosynthesis holds. Chemists have now got one step closer to reaching this goal.
May 3rd, 2016
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An international team of researchers monitors the steps of a chemical reaction mediated by a metallic surface.
May 3rd, 2016
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Water droplets defy predictions, potentially offering insights to everything from fire-retardant fabrics to fuel cells.
May 3rd, 2016
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Refined insights into critical ionic interactions with nature's building blocks.
May 3rd, 2016
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New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.
May 3rd, 2016
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Scientists have developed a new, simple and quick way to make any number microlasers on a single structure.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreA compilation of recommendations from a 2015 workshop organized by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. appears in a report in Archives of Toxicology.
May 3rd, 2016
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