CHEMISTRY

Chemists Discover a New Process of Computing Through Light

Chemists from the McMaster University have developed a unique yet simple method of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different sides of a polymer and cube and reading the combined results that emerge.

The Face of Change: British Man with the Smallest Carbon Footprint

British man tedious enough to solve his carbon footprint to fight climate change In a world where the new car, new dress, and a cool profile picture seems to define your world, who can imagine that there is a man that sees and nurture one of the most important gifts to humankind.

Scientists Develop Non-Addictive Pain Reliever

Study reveals DAGL-beta inhibitors that have the potential to be addiction-free pain relievers University of Virginia chemists developed a non-addictive chronic pain treatment.

Arterial Bleeding Stopped Through a Hydrogel

Wound treatment possible through a hydrogel Collaborators from various institutions in China developed a hydrogel that can stop uncontrolled bleeding from a punctured artery.

Plant Sugars Used as Raw Material for Plastics Chemical

Study shows that fructose can be a source of HMF Collaborators from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an efficient and economically-feasible manner of producing HMF or 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, a chemical derived from plants that could help solve in the transition from a fossil-based economy towards an environmentally-friendly bio-based economy.

Water-in-Salt Batteries Discovered To Have Better Capacity Than Conventional Ones

Study shows an improved and safer battery University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers developed an approach that improved the capacity of batteries to have high energy through enhancing their water-in-salt battery with a new kind of chemical transformation of the cathode that results in a reversible solid salt layer.

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