For the past 5 years, chemical engineer Ankur Gupta of the University of Colorado Boulder has wondered what rules govern the diffusion of ions through the winding nanoscale tunnels within a ...

Gas‐phase ion chemistry remains a vibrant field that elucidates fundamental interatomic and intermolecular interactions through the study of charged species in isolation. The investigation of bond ...

As part of the goal of tackling climate change, more and more people are using electric vehicles, which produce just a fraction of the carbon dioxide emissions as their gasoline-powered counterparts.

Sodium-ion batteries may be the answer to the future of sustainable energy storage and could be used to make drinking water ...

Hydration chemistry occupies a central position in both fundamental and applied research, as the coordination of water molecules to metal ions profoundly influences chemical reactivity, catalytic ...

Although initially set up to recognize the most beneficial contributions to humankind, it is not every year that a Nobel Prize winning discovery has had such widespread impact. Look at it this way: ...

The 3 winners have created metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs can trap moisture from desert air to get water, or ...

Christie G. Enke and Richard A. Yost didn’t set out to make a mass spectrometer. Their goal was to completely computerize an analytical instrument. It was 1975, still the early days of teaming up ...

Creating a rechargeable world has earned three scientists the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in ...

Noam Kedem is VP of marketing for Leyden Energy, a Fremont, California-based company that makes batteries for consumer electronics, electric vehicles and storage applications. Speculation about the ...