Chemistry

Chemists Figure out why Photosynthetic Light Harvesting is so Effective

Chemists Figure out why Photosynthetic Light Harvesting is so Effective

Photosynthesis is a complex process that converts light energy into chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate…
Iron Boride – an inorganic chemical

Iron Boride – an inorganic chemical

Iron boride is an inorganic chemical with the formula FexBy. FeB and Fe2B are the two most common iron borides. Magnetism, electrical conductivity, corrosion resistance,…
Chemists Learn the Secret to the Effectiveness of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

Chemists Learn the Secret to the Effectiveness of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

In order to get to the photosynthetic reaction center, energy packets called photons must first pass through a number of light-harvesting proteins in the photosynthetic…
Recycling in the Future Might Involve Using Electricity to Dissolve Plastic One Day

Recycling in the Future Might Involve Using Electricity to Dissolve Plastic One Day

A novel technique for recycling a common kind of plastic that may be found in soda bottles and other packaging has been discovered by chemists…
Mercury Cycle

Mercury Cycle

The mercury cycle is a biogeochemical cycle that is influenced by both natural and anthropogenic processes that transform mercury into various chemical forms and environments.…
A Review of the Most Recent Heterojunction Photocatalysts Based on Metal Sulfides

A Review of the Most Recent Heterojunction Photocatalysts Based on Metal Sulfides

The use of natural energy resources has played a key role in the rapid growth of the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. However, it…
Before Food is Unpacked, a Packing Tray Created by Researchers Delivers a Contamination Warning

Before Food is Unpacked, a Packing Tray Created by Researchers Delivers a Contamination Warning

A new packaging tray developed by McMaster University researchers can alert consumers whether packages of raw or cooked chicken, for example, contain Salmonella or other…
Instead of Using Crude Oil, Scientists Produce Conventional Painkillers from Pine Trees

Instead of Using Crude Oil, Scientists Produce Conventional Painkillers from Pine Trees

Crude oil, also known as petroleum, is a naturally occurring, unrefined liquid fossil fuel composed of hydrocarbon deposits and other organic materials. It is found…
For Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction, Researchers Suggest Post-Synthetic Modification of Covalent Organic Frameworks

For Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction, Researchers Suggest Post-Synthetic Modification of Covalent Organic Frameworks

An appropriate class of templates for the construction of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) catalysts is thought to be covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which…
Sodium Orthosilicate – a Chemical Compound

Sodium Orthosilicate – a Chemical Compound

The chemical compound sodium orthosilicate has the molecular formula Na4SiO4. It’s a sodium silicate, more specifically an orthosilicate, which is a salt of the unstable…
Accelerating the Chemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide With Tin Disulfide in Ultrathin Layers

Accelerating the Chemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide With Tin Disulfide in Ultrathin Layers

Ultrathin layers of tin disulfide, also known as SnS2, refer to extremely thin films or sheets of the compound tin(IV) sulfide. Tin disulfide is a…
A Powerful New Substance Offers Ground-Breaking Promise for the Treatment of Chagas Disease and Parasitic Sleeping Sickness

A Powerful New Substance Offers Ground-Breaking Promise for the Treatment of Chagas Disease and Parasitic Sleeping Sickness

Researchers have found a new type of chemical that may be effective against the trypanosome parasites that cause Chagas disease and human African trypanosomiasis (also…
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