Ammonia sits at the heart of modern agriculture and heavy industry, but the way the world makes it today is one of the most ...

Specially designed nanoparticles of electrically conductive plastic (here in water) are a key ingredient in the researchers' new recipe for how hydrogen from solar energy can be produced efficiently ...

Work on tiny dots that light up TV screens and help doctors see the blood vessels that feed tumors has earned three scientists the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemist Moungi Bawendi, chemist Louis ...

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically improve the ...

Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless chemical compound comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen that is widely used in agriculture and in industrial settings. Among other things, it is used to produce fertilizers, ...

Polymeric nanoparticles are nanoscale-sized objects constructed from polymers such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) or polylactide-co-glycolide (PLGA), with applications in the in vitro delivery of ...

Nanotechnology represents one of the most transformative fields in modern science, bridging physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to create breakthroughs that redefine how the world works. It ...

Kristin Omberg has received funding from the Departments of Energy and Defense for research at the intersection of biology and nanotechnology. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the ...

Working at levels as small as a billionth of a metre, researchers on an IAEA project have studied radiation’s effect on nano-architectures – the design and building of nano structures – and identified ...