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 has successfully synthesized ...

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 ...

What’s your favorite color? Probably blue, right? Everyone like it–five of Pantone’s last 11 colors of the year have been shades of blue, including this year’s pick, turquoise. A Cambridge ...

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 ...

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