A team of chemists have developed an entirely new method for generating critically important fluorochemicals that bypasses the hazardous product hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas. The findings, published .
MIT professors Admir Mašić and Vladimir Bulović are undertaking a research collaboration with DANAT, the Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones. Using the facilities at MIT.nano, the researchers will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.