The discovery of baking soda dates back to ancient times when it was used naturally as natron by ancient Egyptians for cleaning, mummification, and ointments. Later, a French chemist, Nicolas Leblanc ...

Iron oxide crystal phase governs how efficiently organophosphate ester pollutants hydrolyze, with lepidocrocite showing the strongest catalytic activity despite weaker adsorption. (Nanowerk News) By ...

You can safely eat foods with silicon dioxide, which is used to improve the texture and quality of some processed foods. Make informed decisions about food or supplements with additives by checking ...

A joint research team has developed a highly efficient photocatalyst that can convert carbon dioxide into the high-value-added fuel, methane, using sunlight, while explaining its operating principles.

A four-year analysis conducted at a testing field in eastern Poland has shown that crystalline solar panels offer a stronger performance than thin-film panels at high latitudes. The tests revealed ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to ...

Single-crystalline TiO2 nanorods excel at harvesting light and conducting charge, making them ideal for solar cells, photocatalysts, and sensors. However, traditional fabrication methods link rod ...

An ancient wooden falcon decorated with Egyptian blue alongside one of the newly developed pigments Matt Unger / Joshua Franzos / Carnegie Museum of Natural History Thousands of years ago, the ...

Current manufacturing cost of perovskite solar modules is calculated as 0.57 $ W −1 much higher than that of the silicon solar cells. Cost Effectivities analysis indicates that materials cost shares ...

insights from industryDerek Nowak & Beihang YuVP of Technical Operations & Postdoctoral ScholarMolecular Vista, Inc. - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab In this interview, industry experts Derek Nowak ...