Latest Solubility Stories

Graphene oxide has had a scrum of researchers fall upon it as it retains much of the properties of the highly valued super material pure graphene, but it is much easier, and cheaper, to make in bulk quantities; easier to process; and its significant oxygen content appears to make it soluble in water. However new research led by University of Warwick Chemist Dr Jonathan P. Rourke and University of Warwick Physicist Dr Neil Wilson, has found that that last assumption is incorrect and...

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Krill oil manufacturer Azantis Inc. and solubilization specialist Ceutical Switzerland AG announce the launch of water soluble krill oil. The omega-3 rich liquid krill oil, including the krill phospholipids, is now made available in a water solution for mixing and blending with other water based supplements, foods and drinks. Possible blend products are acai, noni, and other health juices and vitamin waters. The water soluble liquid krill oil is also...

Drug delivery inside the body is a complicated process. Compounds travel through a maze of aqueous solutions, lipid membranes, and barriers between the blood and tissues like the brain. Research reported in the American Institute of Physics publication the Journal of Chemical Physics presents a theoretical model that accurately predicts the hydration free energy (HFE) of a wide variety of organic compounds."HFE determines solubility and allows accurate prediction of a compound's path in...

New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range electron transfers, and fuel-cell catalysts for energy conversion.From rusting iron to forest fires to the beating of a human heart, oxidation-reduction reactions, which transfer electrons from one atom to another, are at the heart of many chemical and biological processes. Each process requires a...

Separating carbon dioxide from its polluting source, such as the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant, may soon become cleaner and more efficient.A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher has developed a screening method that would use ionic liquids "” a special type of molten salt that becomes liquid under the boiling point of water (100 degrees Celsius) "” to separate carbon dioxide from its source, making it a There are major efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from burning...

Separating carbon dioxide from its polluting source may soon be cleaner and more efficient, research at a California lab indicates. A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher developed a screening method that would use ionic liquids -- a type of molten salt that liquefies under the boiling point of water -- to separate carbon dioxide from its source, the Livermore, Calif., lab said Wednesday in a release. The method is cleaner, more viable and more stable than what is available now,...

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.Singapore's Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has discovered a new environmentally friendly method to synthesize a wide variety of nanoparticles inexpensively. This new chemical synthesis has been recently published in Nature Materials.IBN researchers have developed a protocol to transfer metal...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metalline Mining Company (Amex: MMG) is pleased to announce very positive initial cyanide leach results from the silver mineralization at Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico. Twenty three composite samples representing one hundred twenty four sample intervals from drill core into the deposit area were selected for triplicate head grade analyses prior to cyanide leach analyses at a commercial laboratory. These samples were selected to test...

By Phillips, Vaughan T J DeMott, Paul J; Andronache, Constantin ABSTRACT A novel, flexible framework is proposed for parameterizing the heterogeneous nucleation of ice within clouds. It has empirically derived dependencies on the chemistry and surface area of multiple species of ice nucleus (IN) aerosols. Effects from variability in mean size, spectral width, and mass loading of aerosols are represented via their influences on surface area. The parameterization is intended for application in...

Certain explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise.LLNL researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) and improved the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material.This work, supported under the Transformational Materials Initiative (TMI) Laboratory Research and Development project, appears on the cover of the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics."Improving...