Particular ice-nucleating proteins produced by certain bacteria have the ability to control the freezing point of water—so ...

Microplastics in the atmosphere may be altering weather and climate by facilitating ice formation in clouds. Penn State ...

Scientists at Penn State University have discovered that microplastics found in clouds cause the water droplets to freeze at ...

Description: additive is a breakthrough in plastics technology, and was the first hyper nucleating agent available, offering a combination of high crystallization temperature in the polymer with the ...

Microplastics can act as ice nucleating particles, potentially altering cloud formation, precipitation, and even global ...

Microplastics have already been found in the remotest parts of the world, including Antarctica - and the plastics could be ...

Researchers reveal microplastics can influence cloud formation, potentially affecting weather and climate systems ...

Microplastics are in the Earth’s atmosphere and could be disrupting weather patterns and climate, according to Penn State ...

Microplastics, the tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimetres have been spotted in nearly every nook and cranny of our ...

Nucleating an oyster. The Chinese have also begun to nucleate some of their freshwater mussels with shell nuclei implants in both the creatures' bodies as well as in their mantles. Such practices ...

Now, three complementary approaches — molecular design, fluid-flow control and the use of nucleating agents — offer unprecedented opportunities for next-generation optoelectronic applications.

Solid-Liquid Interfaces We're working on electrodeposition and molecular electronics and on understanding and controlling ice nucleation using model heterogeneous nucleating agents. We have a range of ...