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Breakthrough in capturing 'hot' CO2 from industrial exhaust

A metal-organic framework is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures

19-Nov-2024 - Industrial plants, such as those that make cement or steel, emit copious amounts of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but the exhaust is too hot for state-of-the-art carbon removal technology. Lots of energy and water are needed to cool the exhaust streams, a requirement that has limited ...

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Measuring quadrupole spins with zero-field NMR for the first time

Decisive step forward in zero-field magnetic resonance spectroscopy and thus towards precision chemistry

08-Jul-2024 - What does the structure of a particular molecule look like? How do molecules interact with each other? Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is often used to answer such questions. The spins of the atomic nuclei are aligned with a strong external magnetic field and made to rotate via an oscillating ...

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Merck Collaborates with Research Groups Based in Berkeley, California, on Digital Design of Catalysts

Aim is to predict novel catalysts using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques

02-Jun-2023 - Merck announced a three-year collaboration with the research group of John Hartwig at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. The primary focus of this collaboration between the public research institutes associated with the University ...

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Tiny microbes could brew big benefits for green biomanufacturing

The discovery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of fuels, drugs, and chemicals

15-May-2023 - Scientists find new route in bacteria to decarbonize industry. A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals. The advance ...

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New ‘chain mail’ material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make

New process for making catenanes for potential use in airplanes, armor and other resilient needs

24-Jan-2023 - University of California, Berkeley, chemists have created a new type of material from millions of identical, interlocking molecules that for the first time allows the synthesis of extensive 2D or 3D structures that are flexible, strong and resilient, like the chain mail that protected medieval ...

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Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks

Catalysts disassemble polymer while adding ethylene, producing propylene, the building blocks of polypropylene

03-Oct-2022 - Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at all, they’re melted into a polymer stew useful mostly for decking and other low-value ...

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A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, perhaps from tailpipes

Porous material from melamine efficiently captures CO₂ from flue gases

15-Aug-2022 - Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine — the main component of Formica — chemists have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, a key goal for the United States and other nations as they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process ...

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New process enables 3D printing of small and complex components made of glass in just a few minutes

Possible applications of the new process technology are micro-optical components of sensors, microscopes or lab-on-a-chip systems

21-Apr-2022 - Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glass are often tedious, energy-intensive and quickly reach their limits for small and complicated ...

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How sugar-loving microbes could help power future cars

Genetically engineered E. coli eat glucose, then help turn it into molecules found in gasoline

24-Nov-2021 - It sounds like modern-day alchemy: Transforming sugar into hydrocarbons found in gasoline. But that’s exactly what scientists have done. In a study in Nature Chemistry, researchers report harnessing the wonders of biology and chemistry to turn glucose (a type of sugar) into olefins (a type of ...

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How Confined Protons Migrate

When less than two nanometers of space is available, there is a traffic jam in the proton transport network

10-Sep-2021 - Protons in aqueous solution can usually migrate very quickly – much faster compared to other ions. However, this only applies when they are in a space greater than two nanometers, as a study from Ruhr University-Bochum and the University of California Berkeley shows. In confined spaces the ...

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