Ever wondered how the food on your plate reaches you? A major credit goes to a century-old process called the Haber-Bosch process. It's a chemical reaction that produces ammonia — one of the key ...

University of Illinois Chicago researchers are working on a carbon-neutral way to make ammonia, whose main ingredients are found in air and water.

Surrounded by 2,400 hectares of tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables near Fresno, California, the white shipping container looks small. Inside, light flashes through the porthole windows of a ...

University of Miami chemistry professor Carl Hoff stands with Oswaldo Guio, one of his graduate students, in front of a Retsch MM500 machine. As we head into the South Florida rainy season and the ...

Industrial production of ammonia, primarily for synthetic fertilizer — the fuel for last century’s Green Revolution — is one of the world’s largest chemical markets, but also one of the most energy ...

Fritz Haber: good guy or bad guy? He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his part in developing the Haber-Bosch process, a method for generating ammonia using the nitrogen gas in air. The ...

A cross-section through a porous metal-organic framework, showing the copper atoms (orange) that are constrained in a rigid structure by organic linker molecules, cyclohexanedicarboxylate, that ...

Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric acid, the most critical nutrient in fertilizer that plants use to grow everything we humans eat. The ...

Synthesizing ammonia, the key ingredient in fertilizer, is energy intensive and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas warming of the planet. Chemists designed and synthesized porous materials -- ...