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Chemistry
Q&A: Photo Production makes medicines from waste
Tsuda (right) and a student working on a demonstration experiment at a sewage treatment plant in the Higashinada district of Kobe City. Credit: Tsuda Akihiko KOBE University Start-up Photo-on-Demand Chemical Co. Ltd. has demonstrated that methane can be produced from sewage to refine it into pharmaceutical ingredients and other useful chemicals. To this end, Tsuda Akihiko, CEO and Associate Professor…
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Chemistry
Environmentally friendly chlorine method could revolutionize pharmaceutical and chemical production
Gram-scale synthesis and mechanistic studies. Credit: Nature Synthesis (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00698-z Chlorine plays an essential role in everyday life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of Rice University chemists has developed a more environmentally friendly way to incorporate chlorine into the chemical building blocks of pharmaceuticals, plastics, pesticides, and other essential products while reducing costs. The…
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Chemistry
Catalyst breathes new life into acrylonitrile production
Graphical summary. Credit: Applied Catalysis A: General (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2024.119585 A team of engineers is rethinking one of the essential processes in modern manufacturing. What is their purpose? Transforming the way a chemical called acrylonitrile (ACN) is manufactured. Rather than building a world-class manufacturing facility, the company uses small, modular reactors that function by allowing the catalyst to “breathe” in…
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Nanotechnology
Scalable production of high-quality organoids: an innovative platform using 3D engineered nanofibrous membranes
(a) Kidney organoid with scalable nephron structure generated in UniMat. (b) Kidney organoids with vascular structures. (c) Establishment of multiple kidney disease (PKD) and drug testing models using UniMat. Credit: POSTECH The research team has successfully developed a platform that allows for the scalable and uniform production of organoids that mimic biological functions. Their research was recently published in the…
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Chemistry
Chemicals important for synthetic rubber production can be electrosynthesized in a sustainable way
Illustration of the electrocatalytic conversion of acetylene (C2H2) to 1,3-butadiene (C4H6) over a copper catalyst. The process involves adsorption of acetylene molecules onto the catalyst surface, followed by hydrogenation and coupling of *C2H2 and *C2H3 intermediates to form 1,3-butadiene, which is subsequently desorbed. Credit: Nature Catalysis (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01250-0 Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a…
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Chemistry
New magnetic field integration enhances green hydrogen peroxide production
Schematic diagram showing a CoPc/CB-Mag catalyst with polymer-protected magnetic nanoparticles that enables cobalt-centered spin state manipulation. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202408461 Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in improving the efficiency of an electrochemical reaction that produces hydrogen peroxide, an essential chemical for industrial applications such as disinfection, bleaching, and sewage treatment. This reaction, called oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), was…
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Science
Mitochondrial research provides new insights into how our cells process RNA for energy production
Molecular reconstruction of the human mitochondrial RNase Z complex superimposed on frozen tomography sections using human cell mitochondria. Credit: Genis Valentin Gese. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology have made a major discovery about how human cells produce energy. Their study, published in The EMBO Journal, revealed detailed mechanisms of how mitochondria process RNA (tRNA) molecules…
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Nanotechnology
New plasma-based technology design increases graphene production by more than 22%
Shielded TIAGO torch reaction chamber: conceptual diagram (left) and realized prototype (right). Credit: Chemical Engineering Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.155088 Harder than diamond, stronger than steel, flexible like rubber, and lighter than aluminum. These are just some of the properties attributed to graphene. Although this material has attracted great interest in the scientific community in recent years, there is still no…
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Chemistry
Schottky junction catalyst promotes hydrogen production by non-precious metals in water electrolysis
By KeAi Communications Co. The space charge region generated by the dual modulation induced a local “OH and H+ rich” environment, selectively promoting the OER and HER kinetic behaviors. Credit: Guangping Yang, Sining Yun. Electrically driven water electrolysis has attracted attention as an environmentally friendly method for hydrogen production, as high-purity hydrogen is essential to resolving the energy crisis. However,…
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