Chemistry and Chemical Engineering News

In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle.

Most chemical elements become superconducting at low temperatures or high pressures, but until now, copper, silver, gold, and the semiconductor germanium, for example, have all refused superconductivity.

Researchers have found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles -- the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles -- showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA).

Made from a single carbon nanotube only 100 atoms wide. Invisible to the untrained eye, the filament appears as a tiny point of light.

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality

Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division has created a “carpet cloak” from nanostructured silicon that conceals the presence of objects placed under it from optical detection.

Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.

Air pollution is linked to tens of thousands of deaths each year. However, some of the worst pollutants often fly under the radar. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are looking for easier, more effective ways of finding and me

Just 1/30th of an ounce of the material has the approximate surface area of a football field.

Researchers have developed a process for making super-strong glass that is nearly unbreakable, even when dropped from 10 feet high onto a concrete floor.