Research Summaries

Zinc-manganese oxide rechargeable batteries have been studied for more than 20 years, but the batteries usually stop working after a limited number

Current magnetic storage and recording devices, such as computer hard disks, contain nanomagnets with two polarities, each of which is used to

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless and odorless gas that is potentially fatal at elevated concentrations due to the prevention of oxygen flow to

The interactions of water with the surrounding rock matrix are responsible for geothermal energy, the formation of many ore deposits, and a number

Catalysis routinely allows an amazingly large number of chemical reactions to proceed under conditions where such reactions would ordinarily be

In recent years, lithium-ion batteries have saturated the electronics market due to their widespread use in cell phones, laptop computers, and

One of the most infamous greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide. Because of the widespread awareness of the global warming effects of carbon dioxide, a

The electrochemical reactions of oxygen gas are of great interest in many developing technologies such as solar energy conversion and energy

The threat of human exposure to synthetic radioactive elements, such as the actinides, has greatly increased over the last several decades, both

Scientists often use the Periodic Table to predict the properties of an element based on certain trends. For example, elements in the same column