This project will develop universally lithium-selective polymer-based membranes through bottom-up molecular design to process-scale modelling, enabling efficient lithium recovery across diverse feed ...

Many in the chemical process industries (CPI) view generative artificial intelligence (genAI) as a powerful augmentation ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

A new catalyst strategy developed at Institute of Science Tokyo uses BaSi2 as a support for nickel and cobalt to decompose ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever ...

A blue-light-powered iron catalyst just replaced rare metals — and unlocked a milestone in precision drug synthesis.

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