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Clean catalyst for methanol production
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2014
A potentially clean, low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol while reducing harmful by…
Laser shows promise for solar cell efficiency
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2014
Solar cells based on perovskite not only excel at absorbing light but at emitting it too, turning t…
Refrigerant replacement highly toxic on combustion
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2014
EU regulations suggest refrigerants in car air conditioning systems are replaced with a more enviro…
Borophene competition to graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2014
Chemists have produced the first experimental evidence of the existence of borophene – a single-ato…
3D printing boost from cheap titanium powder
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2014
The high cost of titanium powder has prohibited its use in 3D printing – with plastics being the pr…
‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife …
Unexpected boron coupling reaction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013
Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…
Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…
Organic solar cells in a spin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2013
Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performan…
Primordial soup secret revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013
Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life…
Spray-painting solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2013
University of Sheffield researchers have made solar cells using a spray painting-like process. The …
A pleasant aroma relies on good vibrations
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2013
The way molecules vibrate, rather than their shape is responsible for giving substances their chara…
“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2013
Materials Science
The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…
Water’s pyramid shape confirmed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the m…
X-ray prism reveals chemical changes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2012
Ultrashort, ultrabright X-ray laser pulses can reveal details of chemically important molecules at …
Lithium redox imaging for a better battery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2012
A technique developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows, for the first time, the dire…
Super nanoparticles assemble
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012
Chemists from the University of Florida have developed a technique for growing new materials from n…
Stem cells, quantum physics and fight or flight: The Nobel winners 2012
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2012
The most prestigious and publicised awards in the science world were announced last month. Stem cel…
Molecule to reverse fragile X syndrome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012
A compound that shows promise in therapy for one of the diseases closely linked to fragile X syndro…
Renewable energy success: hydrogen fuel cell produced using inexpensive catalyst
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2012
University of Cambridge scientists have produced hydrogen from water using an inexpensive catalyst,…
