Photochemical reactions in solution often proceed via competing reaction pathways comprising intermediates that capture a solvent molecule. A disclosure of the underlying reaction mechanisms is ...

One of the biomass polymers, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), has attracted much attention as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers. 1 It is well known that PLA has two ...

For a couple of decades, researchers have been scouring ancient proteins stuck to culinary pots for hints at what people ate in ages past. Now a team of scientists has found that a solvent mixture may ...

Researchers experimented with different combinations of zwitterionic molecules to produce a solvent that is liquid below 100°C and very effective at breaking down cellulose. This research may lead to ...

Young Hae Choi, a natural products chemist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and his coworkers discovered these new solvents while studying metabolites found in cells. The researchers realized ...

I've got a question for you guys. Do you think I can fit this length of polystyrene into this jar? Yes. No. No? Yeah? I like that – you lot have got some faith in me! Excellent. Right, this is what we ...

For collecting Infra Red spectral data of liquid or solid samples it is desirable to gain a spectral range from 4000cm-1 to 400cm-1. Conventionally liquid transmission cells with KBr windows were used ...