Sony has unveiled the prototype of a unique battery at Eco-Products 2011 exhibition. This amazing battery concept gets its energy from shredded paper. And it is inspired by the insects which eat wood, the termites. Much like termites which digest wood and convert it to energy, Sony used the shredded paper which could be converted to glucose sugar. They achieved this using enzyme called “cellulase”... 

Scientists have found that world’s 2nd most abundant mineral’s constituent, Iron Oxide FeO changes its properties totally to convert to a different substance in deep earth region. Iron Oxide is a constituent of 2nd most abundant mineral found on earth Intense conditions like high temperature and pressure squeeze the basic particles like electrons so close that altogether a new compound... 

Yen-Ting Kuo, a doctoral candidate in chemistry at Kansas State University, is working on preparing fuels using solar rays that can well potentially replace the petroleum fuels. Kuo is making and studying metal-oxide catalysts that react with light. These catalysts, called photocatalysts, cause a chemical reaction when exposed to sunlight. They dont get destroyed during the reaction rather get converted... 

Scientists have discovered the phenomena where modified metals change their colors when exposed to certain gases. This discovery can open up new methods in sensor technology and industrial products. Cathleen Crudden, a professor in the Department of Chemistry said that they found by accident that Rhodium (Rh) reacts in several colorful ways to various gases. Rhodium that is modified using carbon, nitrogen... 

A very fine thread has been manufactured at MIT, using “thread drawing” technique that can act as diode. This invention can open up Samples of materials that have been made into fibers in the lab - Image Courtesty: MIT door to many new electronic devices that will be run on fibre based electronic components rather than conventional metallic and metalloid based components. Thread Drawing,... 

Scientists have converted light into mechanical work by changing the elasticity of DNA when the light is incident upon DNA. This Image credit: McCullagh, et al. ©2011 American Chemical Society. mechanism involves atomic force at micro scale to extract work out using light.   The research recently published in Journal of American Chemical Society by Martin McCullagh, Ignacio Franco, Mark A. Ratner,... 

A new form of Sulfur, the sixth most abundant element on earth has been identified in geological fluids. Earth already contains a lot of sulfur in rocks, mines in various forms but this is something new observed for the very first time.   The new form identified contains S3- ions whilst the existing forms contrain S2^-1 ions or SO4 ^ -2 ions. This was believed as physicists only had access to... 

To date in your elementary science and high school courses you must have been taught repeatedly that the plastics are poor conductors of electricity and one of the reasons most of the insulations of electric wires are of plastic. But now conductor plastic may have given you goosebumps thinking what will save you from electric shocks now ?   Well the plastics will continue to be poor conductors.... 

Signa Chemistry have unveiled new hydrogen cartridges that charge the fuel cells designed to run laptop, cellphones and other similar products.   The motivation for this groundbreaking technology came from the laboratory of James Dye, SiGNa’s co-founder and University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at MSU. His work with alkali metals led to a green process to harness the... 

  The word “shampoo” is thought to come from the Hindu word champo, which means “to massage” or “to  knead.” The first successful retail shampoo was developed in 1930. Until that time, and through World War II, the cleansing agent in shampoos was soluble soap (usually sodium and/or potassium salts were preferred). Soap-based shampoos readily formed insoluble calcium and magnesium...