Researchers have developed a variety of powerful catalysts called superacids that can turn harmful materials such as greenhouse gases and certain hydrocarbons into useful chemicals. The work by ...

Researchers have succeeded in producing very special catalysts, known as 'Lewis superacids', which can be used to break strong chemical bonds and speed up reactions. The production of these substances ...

(Nanowerk News) Designing wearable sensors or other devices demands robust, flexible electronics. Extremely thin films, just one atom thick, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), hold promise.

Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be dissolved in superacids to produce solutions that should make it easier to process nanotubes into bulk structures. Carbon nanotubes have many remarkable ...