Allergy fear leads boy to create sand that repels fire ants | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

A malfunctioning video game console put a 10-year-old boy on a quest to develop a type of sand that can repel one of the most frightening invasive alien species to reach Japan.

Artificial Photosynthesis Decoded: How Carbon Nitride Splits Water (and Enables Green Hydrogen)

Superior light-to-chemical energy conversion with Coulombic dyads

A photocatalyst that can produce hydrogen peroxide from oxygen and water

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a colorless liquid compound with strong oxidizing properties that can have numerous industrial and medical applications. This compound is generally synthesized through the anthraquinone process, through which the compound anthraquinone combined with palladium-based materials catalyzes the oxidation of dihydrogen (H2) to H2O2 with O2 from air.

Holistic evolution of charge transfer to photocatalyst surface sites mapped for first time

Photocatalysts can use sunlight to produce hydrogen from water splitting and to produce solar fuels through CO2 reduction, but the essential mechanism, how photogenerated charges are involved in the photocatalysis processes, has remained elusive since the beginning of photocatalysis study.

New class of photocatalyst has implications for hydrogen fuel production

A group of scientists at Shoolini University have highlighted the potential of covalent organic frameworks, which have a range of properties that may have applications for green hydrogen production.