KIT researchers lay the foundation for new materials and chemical processes by synthesizing an unusual molecule. Researchers ...

The chemical is used to make many everyday products from plastics and textiles to antifreeze and disinfectants.

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially greener way to produce a crucial industrial chemical used to make many everyday ...

New gas detection system combines organic sensors with AI to identify complex gas mixtures and nearly identical compounds ...

Researchers have found that a two-dimensional carbon material is tougher than graphene and resists cracking—even the ...

Dissolved Organic Matter is a mysterious and still largely unidentified combination of substances that is thought to be ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Enzymes are proteins – large molecules that do the behind-the-scenes work that keep all living things alive. These proteins are made up of amino acids, a set of building blocks that can be stitched ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have synthesized a Bi5⁻ ring, a molecule with five bismuth atoms, ...