Initially, the authors discovered that using weakly nucleophilic hexafluoroisopropanol as the nucleophile enabled the selective synthesis of trivalent phosphorus at a high current density of 44.4 ...

While phosphorus is an essential element for plant metabolism and growth, its future supply under elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is uncertain. A shortage of this important nutrient ...

Experiments published in Food and Energy Security by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Royal Botanic Gardens suggest that we are globally wasting huge amounts of phosphorus. By ...

Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack of phosphorus in the soil, new research shows. Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause ...

Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers found that iron oxide in soil performs the same transformation ...

Researchers have now found that fibrous red phosphorus, when electrons are confined in its one-dimensional sub-units, can show large optical responses -- that is, the material shows strong ...