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A WSU research team has successfully used a mild electric current to take on and beat drug-resistant bacterial infections, a technology that may eventually be used to treat chronic wound infections.The researchers report on their work in the online edition of npj Biofilms and Microbiomes.

In today’s modern world full of IoT devices and super-fast WiFi, visitors to the 13,000 square mile countryside area straddling the borders of West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland may be shocked by the lack of connectivity. Since the 1950s, when the Federal Communications Commission created the National Radio Quiet Zone, the region has been nearly free of electromagnetic pollution.

A nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to a new study by Stanford scientists.The team bonded a platinum catalyst to a thin material that expands and contracts as electrons move in and out, and found that squeezing the platinum a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubled its catalytic activity. The findings are published in the journalScience.

Solar energy has the potential to provide abundant power, but only if scientists solve two key issues: storing the energy for use at all hours, particularly at night, and making the technology more cost effective. Now an interdisciplinary team at Stanford has made significant strides toward solving the storage issue, demonstrating the most efficient means yet of storing electricity captured from sunlight in the form of chemical bonds.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that concentrations of methane (CH4) in the atmosphere are roughly two and a half times those of pre-industrial times. The primary component of natural gas, methane is over 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide and can remain in the atmosphere for more than a decade.

The development of a thin-film process technology has been announced by Fujitsu which increases oxygen-producing efficiency by more than 100 fold. This is compared to using photocatalyst material as-is, with photoreactive electrodes that produce electricity and oxygen through the interaction of sunlight and water, used in artificial photosynthesis.

Research at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering focused on developing a new catalyst that would lead to large-scale implementation of capture and conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) was recently published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journalCatalysis Science & Technology.Principal investigator is Karl Johnson, the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Swanson School's Department of Chemical & Petroleum Eng...

A new catalyst material developed by chemists at MIT provides key insight into the design requirements for producing liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, the leading component of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings suggest a route toward using the world’s existing infrastructure for fuel storage and distribution, without adding net greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere.

The new Merdian Hydrogen (H2) Sensor has been released by Tyco Gas & Flame Detection.

Tyco Gas & Flame Detection has announced that the Meridian Hydrogen (H2) Sensor is now available.