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CU-Boulder technique finds major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances; “fingerprinting”

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The Kendrick mass defect differentiates the proton, ammonium, and sodium adducts in both singly and doubly charged forms. The CU-Boulder research team identified the surfactants found in fracking fluid samples from Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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Novel single-site gold WGS catalysts may offer pathway to lower-cost production of hydrogen, fuels and chemicals

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A team of researchers from universities and national laboratories led by Tufts University has developed catalysts composed of a unique structure of single gold atoms bound by oxygen to several sodium or potassium atoms and supported on non-reactive silica materials. This single-site gold species is active for the low-temperature (.

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