Scientists have developed a membrane that can be tuned to selectively enhance or suppress ion flow, mimicking how living ...

In every living cell, there are membranes, and in every membrane there are proteins, each of which acts as a chemical ...

When a reporter with the Sierra Club magazine asked Graham Peaslee, a physicist at the University of Notre Dame, to test several different samples of unused menstrual underwear for per- and ...

In a major step forward for sustainable energy technology, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), led by Professor Yan Wang, William B. Smith Professor of Mechanical and Materials ...

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The process of photosynthesis in green plants and energy conversion in certain archaea are inseparable from photoregulated ion pumping. Two-dimensional (2D) nanofluidic membranes, emerging as ...

When it comes to developing resilient battery materials, engineers much look to innovations in metal chemistries and ...

Under solvothermal conditions, 10 molecular–ionic platinum compounds [Pt(NIA)2]·(L)·nH2O (L = dicarboxylate) were synthesized. In the reaction, acetonitrile undergoes trimerization in situ to generate ...