Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Titanium carbide nanosheets offer low friction and long-lasting wear resistance.

Nanoparticles unite platinum and indium oxide catalysts for better yields at lower temperature.

Extensive environmental survey of pesticides and their transformation products reveals potential for hidden toxicity.

Air-cleaning devices that claim to remove SARS-CoV-2 have hit shelves, backed by varying levels of data.

Chemical anomalies in zircons highlight hidden geology of the Proterozoic’s ‘boring billion,’ a time of evolutionary stasis.

Using furan as a starting material boosts production of diamond-like polymers.

Experiments using scant nanograms of element 99 lead to first measurement of an einsteinium bond length.

At pressures five times greater than at the Earth’s core, diamond still retains its usual structure.

Platinum-molybdenum carbide spurs water-gas shift reaction, solving catalyst poisoning problem.

Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 on high-contact surfaces could enable community surveillance to preempt outbreaks.