Making ethanol from lignin
A new method can produce ethanol from rewnable lignin and carbon dioxide
How silkworms can help astronauts
Silk fibres stay tough and ductile even at low temperatures, making them potentially perfect for space
Smartphones modified to detect norovirus
Handheld detection system is sensitive enough to catch just a few particles of norovirus
Microbes and renewable energy turn carbon dioxide into edible protein
A new process uses microbes and renewable energy to make proteins for human consumption
‘Blackest black’ ever made
New material absorbs 99.995% of light shined on it
Thank the Nobel prize winners for your mobile phone
Start a lesson with the Nobel prize-winning chemistry involved in lithium-ion batteries
Catalyst metal recovery adds greener notes to whisky production
Magnetite nanoparticles recover copper waste from whisky manufacturing process
2D synthetic clay sheets could create easy to recycle crisp packets
Inorganic nanosheets could lower the carbon footprint of food packaging
Poly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
Carbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes
Dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
Water found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
