Mercedes-Benz announced that, together with Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery materials company, they achieved a breakthrough with high silicon automotive batteries. The German manufacturer has been ...

The study of silicon chemistry has long intrigued researchers due to silicon’s pivotal role in materials science, electronics, and catalysis. Its capacity to form a variety of coordination ...

Various obstacles, including crosslink density and reinforcing silica, impact API permeation through a cured silicone matrix. Silicones also offer a host of options in terms of physical states and ...

Scott E. Denmark is being recognized for his creative development of new classes of reactions that highlight the special properties of silicon and for his detailed investigations of the mechanism, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 11, 2014 - Silicon, which is one of the most common elements in the Earth's crust, is also sprinkled abundantly throughout interstellar space. The only way to identify ...

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dow Corning Corp. announced today that a silicone adhesive technology it recently developed alongside Delphi Automotive PLC has earned one of R&D Magazine’s ...

A newly evolved enzyme could one day make silicone compounds biodegradable. For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn human-made bonds between silicon and carbon ...

New silicon-based drugs made with Fuzionaire’s proprietary alkali metal catalyst platform could offer improved efficacy and reduced toxicity THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fuzionaire, Inc.

After nearly 50 years of failed attempts and scientific speculation, chemists at Saarland University have achieved what many ...

An artist’s depiction of an artificially evolved enzyme breaking a silicon-carbon bond. [Caltech/Dow] For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break the stubborn man-made ...