Lithium oxide (Li₂O) What you’re seeing is oxidation at its most reactive form.🔥 This reaction is highly exothermic🌡️ producing both heat and light. When lithium meets oxygen, it forms lithium oxide (Li₂O) and releases a bright crimson flame, the same red hue used in fireworks and flame tests. If lithium meets water, it forms lithium hydroxide and hydrogen gas, which can ignite almost instantly. In batteries, lithium easily gives up electrons. This reactivity is also what makes lithium so valuable in energy storage.🔋 The same property that makes lithium burn with beauty also powers the modern world. Follow @Science for more stories where chemistry meets the art of energy. #chemistry #physics #elements #science

Energy as the Pre-Material Blueprint At the quantum level, energy is not chaotic vibration but a field of coded coherence. Every element—Sodium, Sulphur, Carbon—exists first as an information-rich energy field containing its physical, chemical, and behavioral tendencies in potential form. When this energy becomes matter, it merely densifies; it does not lose its encoded plan. This is the implicate order (Bohm, 1980) that governs all material phenomena. ⸻

Post: The science behind color changes in chemical reactions Ever wondered why some chemical reactions change color instantly? It’s all about electron transitions — when electrons in an atom absorb energy, they jump to a higher energy level. When they fall back, they release energy as visible light. Different energy gaps = different colors. That’s why: • Copper compounds turn blue or green 💚 • Potassium burns purple 💜 • Sodium gives the bright yellow flame you see in fireworks 🔥 So next time you see a colorful reaction, remember — you’re literally watching electrons dance with energy. ⚡ #Chemistry #Science #Electrons #Spectroscopy #Education #Learning #Research #Color #Energy #FlameTest

Most hydrogen today is either expensive or carbon-intensive. We’re proving a third path — one that draws on physics rather than grid power. Our field-coupled redox process unlocks hydrogen directly from steam through the interaction of magnetic fields and catalysts. Less input energy. More practical economics. This isn’t a concept. It’s a discovery — and it’s redefining the boundaries of hydrogen science. #HydrogenInnovation #FieldCoupleRedox #HydrogenFromHeat

Every major breakthrough in energy has come from seeing what others couldn’t. For decades, we’ve tried to move oil through rock with chemistry designed for bulk fluids — microns, not nanometers. But reservoirs don’t live in that world. They live in sub-nanometer pore networks, where electrostatics, hydration layers, and surface energy decide what flows and what stays trapped. The chemistry we’ve built — operating below 1 nm — doesn’t just clean water. It re-engineers the interface itself: • Alters surface energy in organic-rich shales • Restores water-wet behavior in mixed-wet carbonates • Unlocks trapped hydrocarbons proven inaccessible by conventional surfactant systems • Works in brines and high-T/P environments validated by independent labs and field pilots The academic literature is only beginning to describe this physics — quantum wetting, curvature-dependent IFT, charge-stabilized films. We’ve already proven it at scale. This is more than enhanced recovery. It’s the beginning of quantum-interface engineering in the subsurface. #EnergyInnovation #EnhancedRecovery #QuantumChemistry #OilfieldScience #SubNanometer #AquaVida #xHRC

ACS Catalysis (Just published; IF=13.1) DOI: https://lnkd.in/gz_ucXJX Check out our recent work published in collaboration with Kirill Kovnir and Duane D. Johnson at Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory on understanding improved hydrogen evolution reactions (#HERs) in transition-metal phosphides (MPs), which are promising earth-abundant catalysts for due to their remarkable activity and stability. This study combines state of the art experiments and density functional theory to provide critical atomistic insights. #HER #DFT #TMs #isu #ameslab #everyatomcounts #catalysis #energy #activity #stability

I just shared a short video on how to model dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics using the Streeter–Phelps equation in a plug flow reactor with OpenHydroQual. It’s a simple example showing how BOD decay and reaeration interact to create the classic oxygen sag curve we see in rivers and treatment systems. The idea was to visualize the same process many of us learned analytically, but now through an interactive model. OpenHydroQual makes it easy to set up and run these kinds of simulations without losing sight of the underlying equations, which I think helps bridge the gap between theory and modeling. You can watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/epUtcpDs #WaterQuality #EnvironmentalEngineering #Modeling #Hydrology #OpenHydroQual #BOD #DO #StreeterPhelps #PlugFlowReactor #Education

Can Matter Change Its State? Absolutely! Matter can change its state when temperature or energy changes. A perfect example is water, which can exist as: 💧 Liquid – Water ❄️ Solid – Ice 💨 Gas – Water Vapour These transformations occur through different physical processes: 🔹 Melting (Fusion): when a solid changes into a liquid. 🔹 Freezing (Solidification): when a liquid changes into a solid. 🔹 Evaporation: when a liquid changes into a gas. 🔹 Condensation: when a gas changes into a liquid. 🔹 Sublimation: when a solid changes into a gas. 🔹 Deposition: when a gas changes into a solid. Each of these processes shows how heat energy affects the movement and arrangement of particles. This simple yet powerful concept forms the foundation of chemistry and thermodynamics, explaining how the world around us constantly changes at the molecular level. Even matter reminds us — change is a natural part of growth. #chemistry #matter #science

🌟 Meet Our PhD Students 🌟 #WP3 #MultiphaseFlow “My research explores the hydrogen-based Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) process, quantifying coupled heat and momentum transfer between H₂ gas and porous iron-ore pellets. By resolving these interactions, we aim to accelerate decarbonization in steelmaking and support the transition to sustainable steel production."    - Prajwal Reddy, Ph.D. student at Luleå tekniska universitet 🔍 Curious about our research on sustainable thermal management? Explore more at adtherm.se #adtherm #SustainableCooling #HeatTransfer #EnergyEfficiency #PhD

Quantum Thermodynamics Framework Defines Free Energy and Achieves Reversible Athermality for Channels Researchers have established a fundamental link between the energy-processing capabilities of quantum channels and a newly defined free energy, demonstrating that this free energy accurately predicts the maximum work obtainable from these channels and their ability to perform tasks like data purification and private random number generation. #quantum #quantumcomputing #technology https://lnkd.in/eUnpSpNC