Nicotine interacts with ozone, in indoor air, to form potentially toxic pollutants on surfaces like cellulose, cotton, and paper

New metal-storage nanocapsules created from self-assembly of dendrimers with soft aliphatic units

Technique to make common disinfectant, TiO2, three times more effective is quick, simple, and cheap

The puzzle of how, why or even if, sugars change shape has been solved by studying anomeric effect under solvent-free conditions

Samsung Engineering, first Korean contractor to enter US plant market, signed contract for chlor-alkali plant with Dow-Mitsui Chlor-Alkali LLC

Reduced Schiff base ligands less susceptible to hydrolysis and form more stable V complexes than corresponding Schiff bases

Fast chemical reaction and LC-MS could unlock the secrets of protein folding by taking snapshots of folding in action

Porphyrin rings observed to assume saddle-like shape to bind two CO molecules or flatten to bind one NO molecule

Ultrasensitive mercury detection made possible with gold nanowire-on-film surface-enhanced Raman sensor

Multiple energy relay dyes incorporated into dye-sensitized solar cells enhance solar-to-electric power conversion by 35 %