Power plants that use steam to generate electricity need water. Without it, they can’t do their job. But water and steam are complicated, much as is blood in our veins and arteries. So, water ...

The 2024 ACS Sustainability Summit explored the vital role of chemistry in advancing U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Thoughout the summit, leading experts in academia ...

Renewable resources now provide a significant portion of U.S. electricity needs. However, issues related to renewable energy storage capacity, a projected large nationwide load increase (much of it ...

The Environmental Chemistry research area has its core in the chemical sciences, so students learn fundamentals they can apply to current environmental issues, as well as to discover and develop ...

Water is a huge part of the earth, covering about 70 percent of the planet’s surface. Water is an essential part of every living thing on earth, and exists in three main states of matter. Solid water ...

Water is called the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve a broad range of chemicals. But you wouldn’t know that from spending time in chemistry labs, where the solvents of choice are almost ...