In a significant first step toward producing its Prussian blue-based sodium-ion batteries at commercial scale, the start-up Natron Energy is partnering with the Swiss contract manufacturer Lonza to ...

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 ...

Gold and certain other precious metals are key ingredients in computer chips, including those used in consumer electronics such as smart phones. But it can be difficult to recover and recycle those ...

Three hundred years ago, adventurous scientists working in the fledgling discipline of chemistry often weren't sure what they would get when cooking up a recipe. That was how Prussian blue was born.

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 ...

Museo de Arte de Ponce, The Luis A Ferré Foundation, Inc Kelly Grovier traces the pigments that make up hidden layers in masterpieces – some of them toxic – from Picasso and Hokusai's Prussian Blue to ...

What do two 18th century German alchemists have to do with an exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), based in the National Capital Region? A lot apparently. When Johann Jacob Diesbach ...