Chemistry and Chemical Engineering News

Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle “inks” that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.

Applications for the arrays, which can be printed onto flat or flexible substrates ranging from glass to plastic and rubber, include general illumination, high-resolution home theater displays, wearable health monitors, and biomedical imaging devices.

Mention rosemary, thyme, clove, and mint and most people think of a delicious meal. Think bigger...acres bigger.

In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint of death.

"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials that reflect light.

Research demonstrates that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications. The second-generation bacterial computers show the feasibility of extending the approach to other computationally challenging math problems.

Researchers are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices.

A new prostate cancer "homing device" could improve detection and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.

Increased refining of telecommunications and infra-red equipment predicted..

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.