A research team at Uppsala University has resurrected several-billion-year-old enzymes and reprogrammed them to catalyze completely different chemical reactions than their modern versions can manage. The method can be used ...
Biochemistry
Jun 10, 2020
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Imagine a self-repairing rubber, or super-adhesive made entirely from waste materials.
Materials Science
May 18, 2020
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Scientists at Japan's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) are leading efforts to synthesize stronger and efficient materials for hydrogen fuel cell membranes. Most fuel cells currently on the market employ ...
Polymers
May 13, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Delaware, and University of California Santa Barbara have invented oscillating catalyst technology that can accelerate ...
Materials Science
Mar 4, 2020
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Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2020
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Designing the best molecular building blocks for battery components is like trying to create a recipe for a new kind of cake, when you have billions of potential ingredients. The challenge involves determining which ingredients ...
Materials Science
Nov 27, 2019
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Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has improved many of the products we use every day from microelectronics to sunscreens. Nanoparticles (particles that are just a few hundred atoms in size) are ending up in the environment ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 9, 2019
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Metal complexes show a fascinating behavior in their interactions with light, which for example is utilized in organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, quantum computers, or even in cancer therapy. In many of these applications, ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 4, 2019
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The prediction of molecular reactions triggered by light is to date extremely time-consuming and therefore costly. A team led by Philipp Marquetand from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna has now presented ...
Materials Science
Sep 11, 2019
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Researchers at the Molecular Photonics group of the Van "t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam have significantly improved the experimental determination of the chirality or "handedness" of ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 2, 2019
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