Automotive Chemistry

Car batteries use chemical reactions to produce electric currents. The typical car battery is far more complex than you might think, consisting of..

The over one billion automobiles in existence owe much of their functionality to basic chemical reactions. In the U.S. alone there are over ..

The future of cars almost certainly lies in biofuels. But what is the future of biofuels themselves? Biofuels, roughly defined as liquid energy..

Is conventional gasoline set to go the way of the Dodo bird? Maybe, if chemists have anything to do with it. A spate of developments in the clean..

The automobile industry has never been known for its commitment to the planet. Over the course of the last decade, automotive sustainability has come..

Self-driving cars are the talk of the auto industry, but they’re disrupting other sectors too. In fact, reverberations have sounded as the technology..

Harmful emissions from automobiles are one of the foremost environmental challenges facing our planet. The residual effects of burned fossil fuels..

As their name implies, catalytic converters use catalysts to convert harmful gas emissions into less-toxic exhaust. Legally required to be installed..

Car batteries use chemical reactions to produce electric currents. The typical car battery is far more complex than you might think, consisting of..

Polymers – chemical chains made up of many repeating elements – are having a moment. Polymers are the darlings of automotive technology, and for good..