Chemists help make products safer, develop new drugs, and catch criminals, among many other things. Chemistry permeates everything we do, everyday.
Future Cities: The right choices on transportation can shrink your own personal carbon footprint
A study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal, Environmental Science & Technology, offers new insights into how people can shrink their own personal carbon footprints by selecting specific modes of transportation. It provides a comparison of how different means of transportation impact global warming.
Source: Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Our Sustainable Future: A “green grid” for delivering solar and wind-based electricity
After years of neglect, scientists and policy makers are focusing more attention on developing technologies needed to make the so-called “green grid” possible. That’s the much-needed future electrical grid, an interconnected network for delivering solar and wind-based electricity from suppliers to consumers.
Source: Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Molecular robot can be programmed to follow instructions
Scientists have developed a programmable “molecular robot” — a sub-microscopic molecular machine made of synthetic DNA that moves between track locations separated by 6nm.
Source: PressPacs
'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water
Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand — a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world — into a “super sand” with five times the filtering capacity of regular sand.
Source: PressPacs
Our Sustainable Future: Green cars made from pineapples and bananas
Scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from pineapples, bananas and other plants in a new generation of automotive plastics that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than plastics now in use.
Source: Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
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