/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Researchers at Kumamoto University and Nagoya University have developed a new class of two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using triptycene-based molecules, marking a breakthrough in the quest to understand and enhance the physical properties of these promising materials. The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. /news/2025-08-high-quality-crystals-enable-insights.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:41:04 EDT news673260062 Despite natural evidence indicating sulfur's importance and efficiency as a catalyst for critical redox reactions, including hydrogenation (addition of hydrogen to molecule) and dehydrogenation (its opposite), chemists have struggled to manage the enzyme's complexity and fragility at scale. /news/2025-07-sulfur-nanostructures-boosts-catalytic-efficiency.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:20:07 EDT news672585060 Every year, thousands of new materials are created, yet many never reach their full potential because their applications aren't immediately obvious—a challenge University of Toronto researchers aim to address using artificial intelligence. /news/2025-07-ai-applications-newly-materials.html Materials Science Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:26:13 EDT news672564367 University of Utah researchers have developed a material that addresses an urgent environmental challenge: the real-time detection and efficient removal of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a toxic and persistent member of the PFAS "forever chemicals" family, from contaminated water. /news/2025-07-material-efficiently-chemicals.html Materials Science Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:10:07 EDT news672480416 A research team led by Linda Zhang at Tohoku University has developed a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) that enables record-breaking separation of hydrogen isotopes, achieving a D2/H2 selectivity of 32.5 at 60 K. /news/2025-07-hydrogen-isotope-isotopologue-driven-dynamics.html Materials Science Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:59:12 EDT news672479946 Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and economic security. They're ubiquitous in our smart technologies, high-performance materials and industrial catalysts. Yet reclaiming them is complex, dangerous and expensive. /news/2025-07-simple-filter-method-boosts-rare.html Materials Science Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:10:04 EDT news672386270 Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moiré superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional offset. This creates a new, larger interference pattern with completely different physical properties. /news/2025-07-programmable-dna-moir-superlattices-material.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:52:25 EDT news671971940 In order to help prevent the climate crisis, actively reducing already-emitted COâ‚‚ is essential. Accordingly, direct air capture (DAC)—a technology that directly extracts only COâ‚‚ from the air—is gaining attention. However, effectively capturing pure COâ‚‚ is not easy due to water vapor (Hâ‚‚O) present in the air. /news/2025-06-ai-materials-capture-air.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:33:39 EDT news670505612 Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are characterized by high porosity and structural versatility. They have enormous potential, for example, for applications in electronics. However, their low electrical conductivity has so far greatly restricted their adoption. /news/2025-06-metal-frameworks-metallic-pave-paths.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:49:04 EDT news669998942 Polymeric membranes are widely used in separation technologies due to their low cost and easily scalable fabrication. However, unlike inorganic nanoporous materials such as metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks, which feature periodic and ordered channels, polymeric membranes produced through traditional methods—such as phase separation—typically have irregular and disordered pore structures. /news/2025-06-ultra-thin-polymer-membranes-enable.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:00:04 EDT news669557317 Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together. /news/2025-06-liquid-programmable-droplets-potential-carbon.html Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:33:32 EDT news669472409 Even the best products won't meet expectations if they are packed poorly—packaging matters. The same goes for drug delivery. Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have uncovered the critical role played by solvents in how effectively drugs can be loaded into metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a promising class of drug carriers. /news/2025-06-optimal-solvents-boost-mof-carrier.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:16:03 EDT news669028561 To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, the world urgently needs clean and renewable energy sources. Hydrogen is one such clean energy source that has zero carbon content and stores much more energy by weight than gasoline. /news/2025-06-tunable-nanosheet-catalyst-cheaper-green.html Nanomaterials Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:02:18 EDT news668959331 Breathalyzers are a frequently used tool to measure the amount of ethanol in someone's breath, which relates to their blood alcohol content. However, alcoholic beverages contaminated by methanol (sometimes called wood alcohol) are hard to identify and toxic if ingested. /news/2025-06-methanol-poisoning-easily-breathalyzer-sensor.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:00:04 EDT news668748040 Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. Functional applications of these properties rely heavily on their tunability in real time. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications. /news/2025-06-quantum-state-lifetimes-laser-triggered.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:08:01 EDT news668347675 One of Earth's most common nanomaterials is facilitating breakthroughs in tackling climate change: clay. In a new study, researchers at Purdue University, in collaboration with experts from Sandia National Laboratories, have potentially uncovered a game-changing method for using clay to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air to help mitigate climate change. /news/2025-06-clay-based-nanomaterials-solution-capture.html Nanomaterials Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:06:04 EDT news668264761 The clean energy transition requires new means to transport energy that are less reliant on burning fossil fuels. This requires new materials to catalyze reactions to store and extract energy from chemical energy carriers without combustion. /news/2025-05-tool-stable-metal-frameworks-energy.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 21 May 2025 14:54:04 EDT news667058042 As core components for generating coherent tunable radiation sources in all-solid-state lasers, second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals have demonstrated significant technical advantages in many fields. Metal chalcogenides with tetrahedral cluster (Tn) as the structural unit are regarded as candidate systems for NLO materials of the mid- and far-infrared bands due to their potential strong second-harmonic-generation (SHG) response and wide infrared transmission range. /news/2025-05-inorganic-polycations-widening-infrared-transparency.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 21 May 2025 14:37:03 EDT news667057022 Propane dehydrogenation is a key industrial route to producing propylene without relying on oil. However, its current production processes rely heavily on precious-metal catalysts such as Pt-based materials. Developing efficient alternatives using Earth-abundant metals has remained a challenge. /news/2025-05-cobalt-catalyst-rivals-platinum-key.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 20 May 2025 15:29:03 EDT news666973742 Determining how strong your drink is doesn't need to be either guesswork or lab work. New research has made it as simple as checking your messages—and more colorful, too. The study is published in the journal Small Science. /news/2025-05-sensor-alcohol-smartphone-snap.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 20 May 2025 10:53:04 EDT news666957182 Artificial light, once a luxury, has become central to modern life, with its evolution spanning from fire to LEDs. Now, researchers have developed a new class of efficient light-emitting materials as promising candidates to be applied to lighten the darkness. They demonstrated easily accessible aluminum-based organometallic complexes that have the potential to be applied in optoelectronic devices. /news/2025-05-subtle-ligand-modifications-aluminum-complexes.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 16 May 2025 13:55:04 EDT news666622501 Capturing carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) from industrial processes is a necessary step to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and minimize the severe impacts of climate change. A new report from the University of Nottingham explains that sponge-like pellets may hold the key to preventing COâ‚‚ from entering the atmosphere, supporting future net zero ambitions. /news/2025-05-sponge-pellets-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere.html Materials Science Tue, 13 May 2025 11:53:04 EDT news666355982 As industries seek innovative solutions for carbon capture, scientists have turned to advanced materials that efficiently trap and store carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) from industrial emissions. /news/2025-05-carbon-physical-probing-material.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 13 May 2025 11:20:04 EDT news666353430 A collaborative research effort between UNIST and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has led to the successful synthesis of three novel porous materials by leveraging a data-driven structure prediction algorithm. These newly developed materials, modeled after zeolites, represent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with exceptional selectivity in gas separation, particularly for carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚). /news/2025-04-driven-algorithm-yields-unique-zifs.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:26:02 EDT news665141161 A research team has developed a highly stable and efficient water oxidation catalyst, marking a major advancement in the field of green hydrogen production via water splitting technology. /news/2025-04-scientists-strategy-oxidation-catalysis.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:25:03 EDT news664802701 Complex materials such as organic semiconductors or the microporous metal-organic frameworks known as MOFs are already being used for numerous applications such as OLED displays, solar cells, gas storage and water extraction. Nevertheless, they still harbor a few secrets. One of these has so far been a detailed understanding of how they transport thermal energy. /news/2025-03-machine-uncovers-hidden-mechanisms-semiconductors.html Condensed Matter Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:06:03 EDT news661694761 A novel porous material capable of separating deuterium (D2) from hydrogen (H2) at a temperature of 120 K (-153°C) has been introduced. Notably, this temperature exceeds the liquefaction point of natural gas, which is 111 K (-162°C), by more than 10°C, thus facilitating large-scale industrial applications. This advancement presents an attractive pathway for the economical production of D2 by leveraging the existing infrastructure of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production pipelines. /news/2025-03-porous-material-deuterium-elevated-temperatures.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:49:31 EDT news661603767 Researchers from Kyoto University have achieved a significant advancement in materials science by developing the world's first three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks (WaaFs). This innovation challenges the conventional belief that van der Waals interactions are too weak for open framework materials, demonstrating their potential for stable and highly porous materials. /news/2025-03-3d-van-der-waals-frameworks.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:06 EDT news661420253 Researchers have developed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that efficiently produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) using small temperature differences, offering a sustainable approach to chemical production. /news/2025-03-harnessing-metal-frameworks-enable-efficient.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:27:04 EST news660479222 A small team of materials scientists and chemical engineers at Qingdao University, in China, has developed a self-powered, three-component biosensor that can kill bacteria in water samples. The study is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. /news/2025-03-powered-biosensor-bacteria-samples.html Biochemistry Materials Science Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:40:01 EST news660306637