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 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists coupled gold nanoparticles with soft polymers that pull energy from the golds plasmonic response to light. That energy can then be used to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.... view more  Credit: Emily Searles/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and S...

December 22, 2020 Illustration of the bonding between a single water molecule to a metal surface that was computationally modeled by the McEwen group and compared to the measurements of the Wu group. If used in the right way, water could help improve catalysts used for thermochemical reactions: lowering energy barriers and more efficiently converting biomaterials to fuels, according to a new study in the journal, Although it is generally preferable to remove water from reactions, work led by J...