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Researchers have developed photocatalyst recipes for producing polymers that make up chemicals such as inks and surfactants. The findings will pave way for designing photocatalysts through computers in future.

Two teams investigate how to improve fabrication methods of transistor-based biosensors.

Researchers in South Korea have presented an easy, facile, and cost-effective synthetic method, capable of stabilizing perovskites without addition of foreign coating materials in aqueous media.

A new type of organic solar cells with high flexibility can withstand up to 100 continual bending/unbending cycles.

Nanoparticles avoid deactivation and convert biomass-derived gas into methane.

A technique modeling the combustion characteristics of gasoline blended with biofuels for cleaner and more efficient fuels.

A metal-organic framework that can take up twice its weight in water and then release it when humidity falls.

The transition to renewables will take decades, so we must rush to clean up conventional fuel combustion, says Mani Sarathy.

Distinguished Professor Sang Il Seok at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been awarded 2017 Korea Scientists Awards, the Nobel Prize of S. Korea.

An joint research team, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has introduced the Hybrid-SOEC system with highest reported electrochemical performance in hydrogen production.

Three researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) ranked in the top 1% in their felds globally.

Simple two-component mixtures are good surrogates for studying the ignition properties of next-generation gasolines.

Sealed sulfur particles show promise for renewable energy storage technology.

An international team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has presented a novel hydrogen isotope separation system based on a porous metal organic framework (MOF). Their work has been selected to appear on the cover of the October 2017 issue of JACS.

Insight into the thermal decomposition of a potential fuel additive shows it could promote cleaner and more efficient combustion.

Nagoya University team used high-valent transition metal catalysts for an unconventional hydrogenation of carboxylic acid groups, common to biomass feedstocks. The high-valent catalysts showed good selectivity under mild conditions.

A new oxygen-deficient titanium dioxide prepared with Mg reduction method drastically improves the carbon dioxide conversion efficiency up to three times the efficiency of existing photocatalyst. It is expected to be applied for carbon dioxide resources and reduction technology.

Nagoya University-based research team develops new highly efficient catalyst for breaking resistant chemical bonds, paving the way for easier recycling of plastic waste.

Tungsten and titanium compounds join forces to turn a common alkane into other hydrocarbons.

Acetylene is one of the primary starting materials for chemical synthesis. However, acetylene is known as gas, which is highly flammable, dangerous and difficult to use in regular research laboratories. A novel solid acetylene regent was developed to make chemical applications safe and easy to use (doi: 10.1039/c7gc00724h).

Commonwealth Scientific Community to Gather in Singapore

A breakthrough in generating water-stable metal-organic frameworks allows efficient removal of water from gases.