Lignin can now be efficiently and cost-effectively separated from sawdust, by using eutectic solvents. A research group has developed solvents using which 50% of the lignin from wood can be extracted ...

Researchers at IIT Madras said they have developed a green and sustainable method to recover valuable metals, including ...

Typical metallurgical extraction routes require high energy investments to process metals from constituent ores. Others, such as cyanidation of gold ore, are perceived negatively by the public due to ...

Sucrose and citric acid are common ingredients in a cup of tea. But as a NADES (Natural deep eutectic solvents) compound these substances in combination can kill bacteria as effectively as if they ...

image: The recycling of LCO is realized in a closed-loop protocol, where the dissolution/extraction of the cobalt element involves no additional precipitates, thus ...

Chennai: Researchers at IIT Madras developed a sustainable method to recover valuable metals from electronic waste using environment-friendly solvents.

Deep eutectic solvents used as the medium of sensitizer and emitter chromophores (left) and the photon upconverter developed (right). The sample converts low-intensity (a few mW) green light into ...

Effect of UV-curable and injectable dendrimer matrix on tumor pharmacokinetics and survival in a hepatocellular carcinoma mouse model using interstitial photodynamic therapy. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

For Dr. Emmanuel Oke, a distinguished postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Chemical and Metallurgy Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, advancing sustainable ...

Young Hae Choi, a natural products chemist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and his coworkers discovered these new solvents while studying metabolites found in cells. The researchers realized ...