Tag Archives | chemistry solutions

Latest American Chemical Society podcast: New water filter kills disease-causing bacteria

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2010 — The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) award-winning podcast series, “Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions,” focuses on development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering tec…

November 18, 2010

New American Chemical Society podcast: Stop wasting food and save energy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2010 — Generations of Moms and Grandmas have preached the virtues of not wasting food. Now scientists are reporting a compelling new reason to follow this advice: It could save enormous amounts of energy, according to the late…

November 1, 2010

New American Chemical Society podcast: Big building blocks from nanoparticles

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2010 — A new genre of construction materials, made with particles barely 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, is about to play a big role in the building of homes, offices, bridges, and other structures, according to…

September 14, 2010

New American Chemical Society podcast: Economical biodiesel from sewage sludge

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2010 — Biodiesel fuel could be produced from municipal sewage sludge at a cost that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to the latest episode in the …

September 8, 2010