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Uniquely precise: New value for the half-life of samarium-146
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Australian National University have re-determined the half-life of samarium-146 with great precision. The result fits perfectly with the data astrophysicists and geochemists ...
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Probing carbon capture, atom-by-atom with machine-learning model
A team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed a machine-learning model to gain an atomic-level understanding of CO2 capture in amine-based sorbents. This innovative approach promises ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 31, 2024
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Scent research inspires bed bug trap
Scientists at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) spinout Arctech Innovation have used their in-depth knowledge of insects, chemistry and odor to develop a new trap for bed bugs.
Biochemistry
Jul 31, 2024
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Real-time, cost-effective monitoring of neutron beams used in boron neutron capture therapy
Researchers from the Health Research and Technology Group at ANSTO and the University of Wollongong have developed a new device that could improve the quality control of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy, a ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 31, 2024
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Elusive predicted water structure created in the laboratory
Clathrate hydrates are complex water structures that contain foreign guest molecules inside a host water-molecule shell. A predicted clathrate hydrate phase structure has been stably synthesized in the lab and may play an ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2024
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New method detects environmentally unfriendly chemicals
Substances called polyethylene glycols, or PEGs, are widely used in industry, medical, cosmetics and personal care products. The problem is, when they enter the environment and build up, they can harm ecosystems and natural ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2024
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Breakthrough in Z-alkene synthesis: Scientists develop efficient and sustainable method
Z-alkenes are organic compounds with a double bond between two carbon atoms and two substituents attached to the carbon atoms on the same side of the double bond. They are ubiquitous structural components of organic compounds ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2024
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How bacteria attach their cloaks of invisibility to immune defenses
Bacteria have different strategies for protecting themselves. Some bacterial pathogens surround themselves with a shell made of many sugar chains that lie close together, also known as capsular polymers. This protects the ...
Biochemistry
Jul 30, 2024
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New opportunities for organic synthesis under superheated flow conditions
Research programs from the Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis of the University of Liège (Belgium), demonstrate the many opportunities offered by micro/mesofluidic technologies to explore new reaction ...
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2024
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Researchers create ADP- or ATP-containing molecules with improved yield and consistency
Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) or adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-containing important biological molecules can modify macromolecules like proteins and nucleic acids to alter their function in the cell. Synthesizing ADP- and ATP-containing ...
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2024
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Raman spectroscopy offers new insights into ionic liquid acidity
Researchers at the University of Liège have for the first time determined the acidity of ionic liquids using Raman spectroscopy, thanks to Hammett acidity functions. This advance promises to revolutionize our understanding ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 26, 2024
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Building blocks for the future: Rhodium-catalyzed [2+2+1] cycloaddition achieves high enantioselectivity
Cycloaddition reactions are an efficient strategy for constructing cyclic compounds that are important building blocks for other chemicals. In these processes, π-electrons from different unsaturated molecules, such as alkenes, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 26, 2024
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Ice 0: Researchers discover a new mechanism for ice formation
Ice is far more complicated than most of us realize, with over 20 different varieties known to science, forming under various combinations of pressure and temperature. The kind we use to chill our drinks is known as ice I, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 26, 2024
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Shining light on similar crystals reveals photoreactions can differ
A rose by any other name is a rose, but what of a crystal? Osaka Metropolitan University-led researchers have found that single crystals of four anthracene derivatives with different substituents react differently when irradiated ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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An effective strategy to inhibit grain coarsening: Construction of multi-element co-segregated grain boundary complexion
To date, ceramic scientists have devised various strategies to impede grain coarsening. The utilization of nano-sized precursor powder can not only facilitate the densification process, but also yields bulk ceramics with ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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Surface oxygen functionality controls selective transport of metal ions through graphene oxide membranes
Developing efficient, selective, and scalable separations for critical materials, including lithium and magnesium, is essential to meeting the increasing demands for clean energy technologies and alleviating challenges with ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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Underground CO₂ storage: Researchers measure carbon mineralization at unprecedented small scale
As we look to the sky above and ponder one of the biggest questions of our time—how to combat the carbon emissions that are driving climate change—a potential answer just may lie beneath our feet, in Earth's deep subsurface.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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Liquid metals offer potential for greener chemical processes, researchers say
University of Sydney researchers are proposing a new way to curb industrial emissions, by tapping into the "atomic intelligence" of liquid metals to deliver greener and more sustainable chemical reactions.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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Stud offers insights for the future design of highly efficient multi-element electrocatalysts
Professor Zhe Weng and Chunpeng Yang from Tianjin University published a paper titled "Unveiling multi-element synergy in polymetallic oxides for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia" in the journal Science China Materials.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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'Self-healing' glass: Study shows gamma radiation induces defects that are healed at room temperature
Self-healing glass may sound like a science fiction concept, but new research from the University of Central Florida demonstrates it's much closer to reality.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2024
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