News tagged with organic solvents
Platinum nanocatalyst could aid drugmakers
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week ...
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells
Jun 29, 2008 |
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...
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Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led by Professor Rod Ruoff, opening the ...
Nanotechnology restores art masterpieces
May 15, 2007 |
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Italian scientists are developing nanotechnologies to simply and less expensively restore paintings and other works of art.
Scientist increase the efficiency of a type of solar cell by incorporating ionic salts
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A group of scientists are working on the optimisation of a type of photovoltaic cell (Grätzel cell) that artificially mimics photosynthesis.
Water: the Solvent of Choice
May 16, 2005 |
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Miscibility not required: chemical reactions "on water" faster than in organic solvents We all know what it means to put something "on ice", but what is a chemical reaction "on water"? This new expression has been coined by a ...
Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.
Explosives go 'green'
Aug 28, 2008 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Certain explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise. LLNL researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) ...
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells
Jul 31, 2008 |
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...
Disturbances in brain circuitry linked to chronic exposure to solvents
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Chronic occupational exposure to organic solvents, found in materials such as paints, printing and dry cleaning agents, is widespread all over the world, and is thought to damage the central nervous system. The pattern of ...
Scientists Make Ink Disappear, Make Paper Reusable
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite ongoing efforts to save the trees, many offices print high volumes of paper documents on a daily basis. Although many companies encourage paper recycling, both disposing of and recycling ...
Solar Cells Can Take the Heat
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Solar cells have attracted global attention as one of the cornerstones of alternative energy. In theory, it seems to make abundant sense to tap into the energy of the sun to convert light to electricity with little or no ...
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