Energy

Natural gas (NG) has been recognized as the cleanest burning fossil fuel and a vital resource to alleviate anthropogenic CO2 emissions to enable a transition…
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Different thin film applications require the availability of high-quality single crystal substrates. A popular oxide for such purposes is SrTiO3 (STO). STO is also studied…
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A phosphorus bomb is ticking The recent phosphorus crisis threatens human endeavor on planet Earth. Being an essential building block of all life forms, phosphorus…
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Metalloids are also sometimes referred to as semimetals, owing to the fact that metalloids have properties which are in-between metals and nonmetals. This is in…
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Nucleic acids are small biological molecules that are essential to all known forms of life. The different kinds of nucleic acids collectively work together to…
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A pressure-temperature chart gives information on how the temperature and pressure of a substance are related to one another. Pressure and temperature have a relationship…
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A homogenous mixture is one that is uniform in composition, one where the mixture’s components have blended together and become distributed uniformly. Examples of homogeneous…
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Carbohydrates, also referred to as saccharides, are a type of biomolecules. Carbohydrates are used by the body to store energy, and they are all comprised…
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In chemistry, the term “nonmetal” refers to elements and compounds that lack a metallic character. Despite making up only 17 of the 118 known elements,…
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The atmospheric level of CO2 is rising dramatically more than ever in the Earth’s history, with projections that it could reach nearly 600 ppm by…
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CO molecules spontaneously become spatially ordered and oriented at a low-temperature salt crystal surface. Remarkably, they behave like an ensemble of gas-phase molecules; when vibrational…
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