Chemists think that methylene blue, a common dye that is found in wastewater, can power batteries. Anjula Kosswattaarachchi, now a PhD candidate in chemistry at the University at Buffalo, used to ...

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Anjula Kosswattaarachchi, Timothy R. Cook. Repurposing an Industrial Dye, Methylene Blue, as an Active Component for Redox Flow Batteries. ChemElectroChem , 2018; DOI: 10.1002/celc.201801097 Cite ...

Research shows that the dye methylene blue is a safe antimalarial that kills malaria parasites at an unprecedented rate. Within two days, patients are cured of the disease and no longer transmit ...

Health influencers – perhaps including Health Secretary RFK Jr. – are promoting the chemical as an elixir that improves memory and focus. But evidence for these claims is thin.

Over the past five or 10 years, methylene blue has come to be touted online as a so-called nootropic agent—a substance that enhances cognitive function. Vendors claim that it amps up brain ...

Only 5 percent of methylene blue is absorbed by fabric in the dyeing process, meaning that thousands of liters of dye are released by factories daily to produce the azure hues people love to wear.

Methylene blue's been touted as a miracle cure for cancer and as protection from radiation on flights. Now doctors reveal the fascinating truth about the dye - and who MUSTN'T take it ...

The blue dye in question, called methylene blue, is the oldest synthetic anti-malarial drug. A paper published in 1891 tells how two scientists successfully used it to treat a malaria patient.

What Cook and Kosswattaarachchi have shown — so far — is that methylene blue is good at important tasks associated with energy storage. In experiments, the scientists built two simple batteries that ...