Fungus strains help to extract valuable cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

Using Fungi to Recycle Batteries

Albert C. Barnes – Chemist and Art Collector
Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania, USA, shows impressionist and early modern art and was founded by a chemist

Edible Food Packaging
Environmentally friendly films made of the milk protein casein

Using Mobile Phone Networks to Predict Air Pollution
Detecting temperature inversions that can contribute to poor air quality

Lead Release in Drinking Water
Understanding the role of iron in the release of lead to drinking water

New Ceramic-Sintering Solution
Cold sintering uses dissolution instead of melting to form dense solids from powders

Keeping Drugs Out of Synapses
Neuroprotective hybrid nanodrug designed to be larger than the synaptic cleft

New Reactions of Heavy Alkyne Analogues
Cleavage of Ge−Ge and Sn−Sn triple bonds with metal carbonyls

Improving Rare Earth Extraction Efficiency
Understanding the interface between bastnäsite, the main mineral source of rare earth metals, and water

Synthesis of Luminescent Vanadates
Liquid−liquid biphasic system for controlling the microstructure of inorganic phosphors