image: This is an illustration of the energy content of diesel and Jet-A fuel by comparing these fuels to the number of sticks of dynamite that would have similar energy content (2 megaJoules per stick of dynamite). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 2 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.-H. Wei at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Megasupramolecules for safer, cleaner fuel by end association of long telechelic polymers." view more
Credit: Julia Kornfield