Smartphone torchlight powerful enough to generate bactericidal oxygen-centred organic radicals to purify water ...

Around 4.4 billion people worldwide still lack reliable access to safe drinking water. Newly designed, thin floating films ...

Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University, China, have developed a new water purification film. This “self-floating photocatalytic film” uses low levels of sunlight to purify highly contaminated water and ...

In a remarkable showcase of cutting-edge infection control technology, Sharp's award-winning Photocatalyst solution, applied by the proficient team at Anest Iwata, achieved outstanding results at the ...

High-efficiency photocatalyst development technology that synthesizes materials such as titanium dioxide, copper oxide, and reduced graphene oxide, or controls the structure and surface of ...

Using an X-ray laser, the method revealed atomic motions in a simple catalyst, opening the door to study more complex molecules key to chemical processes in industry and nature. (Nanowerk News) ...

Osaka, Japan – Life as we know it is based on organic molecules. In these molecules, carbon and hydrogen atoms are linked into a fascinating array of structures, such as chains or rings. One special ...

In a breakthrough, researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Japan, have synthesized smaller, more porous nanosized PTOF particles, achieving photocatalytic activity up to ~60 times ...

A new photocatalyst could help clean up the industrial pollutant perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which contaminates drinking water in many parts of the U.S. and recently triggered a state of emergency ...

Hydrogen is an alternative source of energy that can be produced from renewable sources of sunlight and water. A group of researchers has developed a photocatalyst that increases hydrogen production ...

Inexpensive water-splitting catalysts could lower the costs of generating hydrogen for fuel cells. Towards that end, scientists in England now have integrated a stable, low-cost organic catalyst into ...