How can plastics be designed so they retain their desirable properties but at the same time can be more effectively recycled? This and other questions concerning the eco-friendliness of plastics are the focus of chemist Stefan ...
Polymers
Dec 20, 2022
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In nature, enzymes termed hydrogenases are capable of producing molecular hydrogen (H2). Special types of these biocatalysts, so-called [FeFe]-hydrogenases, are extremely efficient and therefore of interest for biobased hydrogen ...
Biochemistry
Dec 16, 2022
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134
A team of researchers from Lithuania has developed organic dyes showing a particularly long afterglow after being excited by light.
Polymers
Dec 16, 2022
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Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Baylor University ...
Polymers
Dec 15, 2022
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Dr. Michal Mazur and his colleagues from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague study catalysts that are based on metal nanoparticles stabilized at zeolites. Recently, they have prepared a new type of zeolitic ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 14, 2022
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65
Photosynthesis is a valuable natural system for sequestering carbon dioxide. However, simply forming biomass does not fully exploit this system. A Chinese team of researchers, whose study is published in the journal Angewandte ...
Biochemistry
Dec 9, 2022
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39
It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work.
Polymers
Dec 2, 2022
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967
Catalina Island, located 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, once collected Hollywood royalty, smugglers and silver miners. Now, it collects trash. Its windward-facing harbor is a collection point of the Great Pacific ...
Materials Science
Nov 28, 2022
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160
Plastic waste is one of the most significant ecological and economic problems of our time. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a chemical–biological method for upcycling polyethylene waste: ...
Biochemistry
Nov 28, 2022
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A team of researchers writing in the journal Angewandte Chemie has developed a bioorthogonal molecular system for the targeted introduction of nitrite ions into cells. Their system releases nitrite ions in cancer cells using ...
Biochemistry
Nov 25, 2022
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