Chemical engineers take a step toward generating ammonia with small-scale, electrochemical reactors. Most of the world’s fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require…
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Hadley Sikes, who recently earned tenure in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, devotes much of her lab’s effort to devising inexpensive, highly sensitive tests for…
A step closer to an efficient way of producing hydrogen so that we can finally do without fossil fuels and other energy sources that are…
Researchers from U of T Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University are using electrolyzers like this one to convert waste CO2 into commercially valuable chemicals. Their…
Chemical Recycling Makes Useful Product From Waste Bioplastic A faster, more efficient way of recycling plant-based “bioplastics” has been developed by a team of scientists…
MIT chemical engineers have designed a sensor that can be embedded into plant leaves and measure hydrogen peroxide levels, which indicate that damage has occurred.…
Reaction pathways for oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane facilitated by the molten carbonate shell modified perovskite redox catalyst. Credit: Fanxing Li, NC State University A research…
Schematic showing Dr. Mustafa Akbulut’s dual-function coating that is both superhydrophobic and antimicrobial. Credit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering Texas A&M researchers have created…
Re-attachable and flexible rechargeable batteries available to use in next-generation flexible/wearable devices. Credit: Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) A joint research team from KIER,…
Synthesis process of nanocarbon adsorbent. Credit: Nagahiro Saito Nanocarbons for purifying water get a lot more efficient by exposing a precursor mixture to high voltage.…
Sample of the new material. Credit: Universidad de Sevilla Boron carbide is used in the design of planes, trains, and cars. University of Seville researchers,…
MIT engineers have developed a way to encapsulate nutrients in a biocompatible polymer, making it easier to use them to fortify foods. Credit: Second Bay…
In BigSMILES, polymeric fragments are represented by a list of repeating units enclosed by curly brackets. The chemical structures of the repeating units are encoded…
Using metallic ink, researchers screen-print an antenna and sensor onto a stretchable sticker designed to adhere to skin and track pulse and other health indicators,…
Guided by artificial intelligence and powered by a robotic platform, a system developed by MIT researchers moves a step closer to automating the production of…
Large anions with long tails (blue) in ionic liquids can make them self-assemble into sandwich-like bilayer structures on electrode surfaces. Ionic liquids with such structures…
MIT researchers have designed inhalable particles that can deliver messenger RNA. These lung epithelial cells have taken up particles (yellow) that carry mRNA encoding green…
MIT researchers used their new tissue preservation technique to label and image neurons in a brain region called the globus pallidus externa. Neurons that express…