Code Orange Air Quality Alert issued for Mecklenburg County; sensitive groups at risk

Mecklenburg County is under a Code Orange Air Quality Alert, which is in effect until 8 p.m. Thursday. A Code Orange alert ...
C&EN

Do we need to rethink inductive effects in organic chemistry?

Every first-year organic chemistry student learns early on about the inductive effect, which describes how certain atoms’ electronegativity can affect other atoms in the same molecule. This subtle ...
Getty

Greener Solvents in Art Conservation

On December 13 and 14, 2022, the Getty Conservation Institute organized an expert panel on the theme “Greener Solvents in Art Conservation” with The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in ...
chromatographyonline

Solvent Selection from the Green Perspective

Analytical chemists are increasingly considering sustainability, yet traditional organic solvents remain prevalent in practice. Green solvent selection guides, such as CHEM21, evaluate solvents based ...
C&EN

An Elucidation of Substrate Effects in Graphene-Based Sensing Characteristics─Interfaces between Organic Solvent and Graphene

Most graphene-sensor researches have focused on direct graphene modifications to enhance performance. However, supporting-substrate effects on graphene sensing mechanisms remain underexplored. Because ...
C&EN

Most solvent waste from US academic labs ends up in the air

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Investigation of Solvent Effect on the Structural Morphological and Optical Properties of ZnO Doped Mg Elaborated by Sol-Gel Method ()

IMED-Laboratory, Groupe d’Étude des Matériaux Optoélectroniques (G.E.M.O), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco. This work aims to study the solvent’s effect ...
PNAS

The effect of salt additives on the glycine crystallization pathway revealed by studying one crystal nucleation at a time

It is of great importance to understand the early stage of crystallization at the molecular level and rationally control polymorphism in academic and industrial research. We studied the effect of ...
UroToday

Occupational exposure to organic solvents and the risk of developing testicular germ cell tumors (TESTIS study): Effect of combined exposure assessment on risk estimation.

Etiological factors of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) remain largely unknown, but a causal role of occupational exposures to solvents has been suggested. Previous studies analyzing these exposures ...