Plastic waste breaks down over time into nanoplastics (<0.1 μm). Microplastics smaller than 20 μm cannot be removed in currently operating water treatment plants and must be agglomerated to a larger ...

The pigment Prussian blue consists of iron cations, cyanide anions, and water. The empirical formula—minus the water of crystallization—is Fe 7 (CN) 18. This seems odd with respect to the iron ...

The deep, murky pigment known as Prussian blue put the "blue" in traditional blueprints, colored Hokusai's "Great Wave off Kanagawa" and today is used for industrial purposes, from laundry to battery ...

For the first time in more than three centuries, Prussian Blue – long confined to its rigid cubic shape – has been transformed into an octahedral structure. A research team led by Prof. Changshin Jo ...

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) PhD student Leeann Sun is the first author of a recent paper opening up potential new applications for the pigment known as Prussian ...