Chemists at MIT have demonstrated an approach that increases the likelihood of finding low-cost materials that can speed up critical chemical reactions needed to convert renewable resources such as biomass into useful fuels and chemicals.

By learning more about how metalloprotein enzymes work, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to eventually devise new ways to perform fundamental chemical reactions that could be used to capture carbon from the atmosphere or to produce fossil fuel alternatives.

A possible step toward mass-producing molecular-scale electronics.

Researchers discovered a new set of chemical reactions that use cyanide, ammonia, and carbon dioxide generates amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of proteins and DNA.

Aerosols in the atmosphere react to incident sunlight. This light is amplified in the interior of the aerosol droplets and particles, accelerating reactions. Researchers have now been able to demonstrate and quantify this effect and recommend factoring it into future climate models.

Aerosols in the atmosphere react to incident sunlight. This light is amplified in the interior of the aerosol droplets and particles, accelerating reactions. ETH researchers have now been able to demonstrate and quantify this effect and recommend factoring it into future climate models.

Researchers overcome computational limitations to predict the starting materials of multi-step reactions using only information about the target product molecule.

Researchers have overcome computational limitations to predict the starting materials of multi-step reactions using only information about the target product molecule. Their study is published in JACS Au.

A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold—freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and at room temperature.

For the first time, scientists have used machine learning to create brand-new enzymes, which are proteins that accelerate chemical reactions. This is an important step in the field of protein design, as new enzymes could have many uses across medicine and industrial manufacturing.

Chemistry is increasingly making use of the trick plants can do with photosynthesis: driving chemical reactions that run poorly or do not occur spontaneously at all with light energy. This requires suitable photocatalysts that capture light energy and make it available for the reaction. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Chinese research team has now introduced layered core/shell quantum dots that efficiently…

Quantum bursts of light could help examine minute chemical reactions and reveal the quantum properties of mysterious materials

Astronomers analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted signs of chemical reactions driven by star light in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time

Researchers have uncovered a way to improve the efficiency of a type of grid-scale storage crucial for a global transition toward renewable energy.

With a modest electrical pulse, chemical reactions receive a significant boost. Industries like petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals could undergo a transformative shift.

Strange quantum characteristics of molecules can weather the chaos of chemical reactions, which may benefit quantum technologies or unveil hidden natural phenomena

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MIT researchers developed a way to quickly calculate the transition state structure of a chemical reaction, using machine-learning models.

In a chemical reaction, molecules in different substances meet one another to form new molecules causing changes in the bonds of their atoms. The molecules collide at an extremely close distance—a nanometer or less—in an extremely short amount of time. This makes investigating the details of chemical reactions at the molecular scale difficult.

Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions, using minute changes in a magnetic field to make subtle changes to the quantum mechanical wavefunction of the colliding particles during the chemical reaction.