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 ...

1 School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia 2 Environmental Futures, School of Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia ...

A team in Massachusetts has recovered lithium carbonate at 99.79 percent purity from spent lithium metal battery anodes. The process uses a controlled reaction in commercial acetone and was ...

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are currently the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, powering countless portable electronics, as well as hybrid and electric vehicles. While they are known ...

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise ...

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

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Describing chemical reactions in solution on a molecular level is a challenging task ...

In this work, we benchmark the accuracy of the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) method, namely the long-range corrected second-order (LC-DFTB2) and third-order (DFTB3) models, for predicting ...