A team of scientists has found a way to slow energy leaks that have impeded the use of tiny nanocrystals in light-driven ...

Electrocatalytic transformations not only require electrical energy—they also need a reliable middleman to spark the desired ...

Quantum tunnelling, a quintessential quantum mechanical phenomenon, allows particles to penetrate energy barriers that they classically should not overcome. In chemical reactions, this effect is ...

New pharmaceuticals, cleaner fuels, biodegradable plastics: in order to meet society's needs, chemists have to develop new synthesis methods to obtain new products that do not exist in their natural ...

As the world moves away from gas towards electricity as a greener power source, the to-do list goes beyond cars. The vast global manufacturing network that makes everything from our batteries to our ...

Immobilizing small synthetic molecules inside protein crystals proves to be a promising avenue for studying intermediate compounds formed during chemical reactions, report scientists from Tokyo Tech.

Constructing complex molecules from simpler ones is pivotal for the development of pharmaceuticals, materials science, and various scientific domains. But one reaction, known as the nucleophilic ...

Researchers from the University at Albany and NYU Grossman School of Medicine have found a way to block a key cellular ...

Researchers from the University at Albany and NYU Grossman School of Medicine have found a way to block a key cellular ...

But scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden were surprised to discover that the polar molecule hydrogen cyanide ... biochemistry and ...