Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...

A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources.

The panel identified five issues that were common to the chemical and petroleum refining industries: the availability of lower cost oxygen; methods for removing acid gases and hydrogen separations; ...

The U.S. petroleum processing industry refines 97 percent of the nation's transportation fuels and produces raw materials for other industries, such as the chemical industry. The petroleum refining ...