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Bio & Medicine 8 hours ago

Method to separate microplastics from water could also speed up blood analyses

Researchers have demonstrated a way to speed up—and potentially scale up—the process for separating particles in fluids, which can be used for studying microplastics in drinking water or even analyzing cancer cells from ...

Polymers Aug 13, 2024

Team demonstrates halogen bonding for selective electrochemical separation, a path to sustainable chemical processing

With a new polymer that only attracts certain substances from solutions when electrically activated, researchers have taken a major step towards sustainable chemical separation.

Biochemistry Aug 13, 2024

Peptide boronic acids offer new prospects for synthetic immunology

A cutting-edge chemical process is the first to make it possible to quickly and easily produce modified peptides with boronic acids. It was developed by scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Institute ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 13, 2024

New surfactant from cashew nut shell liquid boosts industrial reactions

Industries and chemical labs synthesize a wide variety of organic molecules every day. Most of these chemical reactions happen in the liquid phase to allow the substrates to interact easily. However, many substrates and catalysts ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 13, 2024

Modified solvents achieve vastly increased potentials for oxidation

A team of scientists headed by Professor Ingo Krossing, Professor of Molecular and Coordination Chemistry at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, has succeeded in significantly increasing ...

Polymers Aug 12, 2024

Up-cycling petroleum waste into a high-performance yet sustainable triboelectric nanogenerator

A striking landmark in Vancouver, Canada, "The Big Yellow Sulfur Pile" is a testament to the massive amounts of elemental sulfur produced from the hydrodesulfurization process of petroleum refining.

Environment Aug 12, 2024

Getting trapped in freshwater ice changes microplastics' sink-or-swim tendencies

Most bodies of water contain minute plastic particles that get trapped at the surface when ice forms. But when the ice melts, the microplastics have changed. According to research recently published in Environmental Science ...

Polymers Aug 12, 2024

Small chemical tweak boosts CO₂ capture by 15%

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that small molecular tweaks to surfaces can improve absorption technology for direct air capture, or DAC, of carbon dioxide.

Polymers Aug 9, 2024

New technology uses light to engrave erasable 3D images

Imagine if physicians could capture three-dimensional projections of medical scans, suspending them inside an acrylic cube to create a hand-held reproduction of a patient's heart, brain, kidneys, or other organs. Then, when ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 9, 2024

Discovery of icosahedral superatomic cluster Ag₁₃ and its analogs Au₁₃

Researchers report on the first icosahedral superatomic silver nanoclusters Ag13 and its analogs Au13. The changes in optical properties during the evolution of Ag13 to Au13 are studied, and the differences in the origin ...

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