Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming - and quite likely our own eventual extinction - by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A team of ...

A fire caused by the production of silane gas during the synthesis of silicon nanoparticles by reduction of SiCl 4 by LiAlH 4 was described in a safety letter several years ago (C&EN, Dec. 19, 2005, ...

Silicon constitutes 28% of the earth’s mass. Its high abundance, lack of toxicity and low cost coupled with its electrical and optical properties, make silicon unique among the semiconductors for ...