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Making prussian blue

Today I'll be making Prussian Blue, which was the first modern synthetic pigment. For this video, I'll be isolating it and using it to make paint, but in the future, I''ll be diving into the whole ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back at the beginning of December, I read an article about how Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams had revived the process George Washington Carver used to produce a blue pigment using ...