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Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy ...


Physicists steer electrons with laser pulses: Method could be used to create custom-made chemical compounds

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' building ...


Molecules on a string, and why size isn't the only thing that matters for data storage

Molecules on a string, and why size isn't the only thing that matters for data storage

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Molecules of hydrogen are difficult to steer with electric fields because of the symmetrical way that charges are distributed within them. But now researchers at ETH Zurich have found a clever technique to ...





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Producing hydrogen from urine

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...


Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method

Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method

Chemistry /

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen ...


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Atomic Tug of War

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 4

A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.


Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 14

Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important ...


Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover

Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover

Chemistry /

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (48) | comments 9

Researchers have discovered an unusual molecule that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. It's the unusual chemistry facilitated ...


Chemist Discovers the Elusive Chemical Middleman That Removes Acid Rain

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created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered the middleman in the complex chemical reaction that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. The study ...


New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- To use hydrogen as a clean energy source, some engineers want to pack hydrogen into a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting ...


Not just bleach: Hydrogen peroxide may tell time for living cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

If a circadian rhythm is like an orchestra - the united expression of the rhythms of millions of cells - a common chemical may serve as the conductor, or at least as the baton.


Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (60) | comments 4

Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...


Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange

Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 8

Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules very quickly, at speeds of tens of times per second. But in spite of these properties, ...



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