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Accommodating water within their pores and ideally fueled by solar energy, organic porous water-splitting materials trigger the process of splitting water molecules via oxidation and reduction reactions to release hydrogen. Credit ILL / M. Zbiri Hydrogen fuel is s…

An “artists view” of how the new material, D-96-7, is created June 2020The synthesis of stable and cost-effective new materials is paramount for the development of advanced technologies. At the same time, new and exciting insights can be made about material propert…

H20, the key molecule of life, is closely studied across the world. Yet, there are many mysteries we are still to uncover. One of these mysteries is ice.

Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser setup used for the determination of the ionization potential of promethium at Mainz University. 26 June 2019Timely for the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's…

Solar hydrogen can be produced from water and light in a process called photocatalytic water-splitting and could help to mitigate the impact of climate change, as no fossil fuels are used in its production ...

Chimet S.p.A. turns to the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) to develop the most effective catalysts for industrial processes, to enhance methods to produce widely used bulk and fine chemicals. LAGRANGE is a neutron spectrometer dedicated to studies of …

8.09.2017Neutron experiments conducted by the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and CNRS researchers provide a direct quantitative measurement of phonon lifetimes in a clathrate, providing a novel picture of thermal conductivity in complex materialsThis study has highlighted the importance of neutron t…

Unit cells of clathrate structure I and clathrate structure II. Different types of polyhedral cages are represented in different colours. Reproduced from Ranieri et al., Nature Comm. Gas clathrate hydrates are ice-like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are tr…

The endofullerene HF@C60 has attracted great interest, as it allows the spectroscopic properties of the isolated hydrogen fluoride (HF) molecule to be examined under carefully controlled conditionsScientists produced the first samples of HF@C60 using molecular surgery, which involved encapsulation…

10.12.2014The discovery of a new form of ice could lead to an improved understanding of our planet’s geology, potentially helping to unlock new solutions in the production, transportation and storage of energy. Ice XVI, the least dense of all known forms of ice, has a highly symmetric cage-like st…