Category Archives: chemistry

the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

Troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide

Readings are coming in at 400 and higher all over the Arctic. They’ve been recorded in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Iceland and even Mongolia.

Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity’s Ability to Feed Itself

The horrific warning of the end of life on the planet as we know it comes from paleoceanographers, who examine cores of sediment from some 56 million years ago.

Solar Frontier to supply world’s largest CIGS solar plant

Thin solar, which runs on light, is lighter than some other solar panels when you have to haul them.

Double-Layered Silicon-Germanium Nanotube Array

Green Car Congress is a good source for brief synopses about industry development of traction batteries for electric vehicles.

Developing Reliable Distributed Power

The University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maryland are involved in the development of innovative fabrication methods that could lead to significant energy storage system improvements.

The Evil Agri-Oil Axis

Since the 1960s increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has doubled the number of lifeless pockets every decade.

Inside-out Buckyballs, Batman?

Negative Curvature Carbon

PANI-M-C

Potentials within ~60 millivolts of that delivered by state-of-the-art carbon-supported platinum, and remarkable performance stability for non–precious metal catalysts, sounds like a winner

Bicontinuous Nanoarchitecture

The promise of capacitor-like power with battery-like energy.

Yi Cui, More Anode Development

Researchers find a low cost way to improve the safety of anodes in lithium batteries.

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