1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (617+ words) A team of materials scientists has shown that ordinary green tea can do far more than steep a soothing drink: its polyphenol-rich extract can grow phase-pure nickel oxide nanoparticles that, when embedded in a biodegradable chitosan matrix, transform a humble…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (351+ words) Hydrogen produced by splitting water with sunlight has long been one of the most attractive goals in sustainable energy research, offering a clean fuel whose only byproduct when burned is water. Photocatalytic water splitting, in which semiconductor materials absorb light…...

2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (718+ words) Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic exceeding guideline values across large parts of the Bengal Basin....

3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (506+ words) A single-atom substitution could transform one of the most exciting families of two-dimensional materials from a laboratory curiosity into a working engine for solar fuels....

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in China have transformed a polysaccharide extracted from the rhizomes of Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua, a plant long valued in traditional food and medicine, into a highly engineered carbon nanomaterial that can detect trace organic pollutants at concentrations as low…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (605+ words) A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia has developed a family of multiphase nanocomposites that can pull one of the most stubborn textile dyes out of contaminated water with remarkable efficiency. Writing in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society,…...

7+ hour, 35+ min ago   (73+ words) A new comprehensive review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry maps out how scientists are transforming an extraordinary class of atomically thin materials into workhorses for the clean energy transition. Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs, are layered…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago   (537+ words) A humble transition-metal oxide, grown in a laboratory autoclave and shaped by nothing more exotic than temperature, has delivered one of the more striking demonstrations of visible-light water purification reported this year....

11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Every smartphone, wearable sensor, and implanted medical device now competes in a world saturated with radio waves, and the electromagnetic noise that connects our gadgets also threatens to scramble them. Engineers have long sought shielding materials that are thin, light,…...

16+ hour, 1+ min ago   (487+ words) A few atoms of aluminum oxide could solve a key trade-off holding back next-generation 2D semiconductor technology. Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) that lets you put an extremely thin gate insulator on top…...