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Bio & Medicine Mar 2, 2023

Chemically modified nanosheets for biomedical applications

In a recent study, researchers from the Department of Organic Chemistry (OC) and Materials Research Centre (MRC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), show that surface modifications of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide ...

Biochemistry Mar 2, 2023

Fluorescent chiral-selective receptor system for applications in diabetes management

Diabetes mellitus, simply called diabetes, is a metabolic disorder characterized by the presence of abnormally high concentrations of glucose in blood. Existing methods for the diagnosis of diabetes rely on traditional techniques ...

Plasma Physics Feb 28, 2023

First measurements of hydrogen-boron fusion in a magnetically confined fusion plasma

As fusion developers around the world race to commercialize fusion energy, TAE Technologies has pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron (also known as p-B11 ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 27, 2023

Researchers discover new superacid

Researchers at Paderborn University have succeeded in producing very special catalysts, known as "Lewis superacids," which can be used to break strong chemical bonds and speed up reactions. The production of these substances ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 27, 2023

Researchers propose copper-catalyzed rearrangement of cyclic ethynylethylene carbonates

Copper-catalyzed reaction of cyclic ethynylethylene carbonates (EECs) has become one of the hottest research fields. Most of the reaction modes involve the nucleophilic substitution process. However, the development of new ...

Plants & Animals Feb 23, 2023

Nutrient uptake in citrus rootstock affected by huanglongbing

Huanglongbing (HLB) is presumably caused by the phloem-limited bacteria, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), and is one of the most devastating diseases of citrus. A distinctive chlorotic mottle on fully expanded leaves ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 23, 2023

A green method for obtaining vanillin from technical lignin produced from pulp

Huge amounts of technical or Kraft lignin are formed during pulp production. This lignin is difficult to process and so is usually just incinerated for heat production. A team of researchers, reporting in the journal Angewandte ...

Nanomaterials Feb 21, 2023

More research needed to advance 2D boron-based future technologies, scientists say

Boron may be elemental, but it's certainly not basic. The 2D form of the element, called borophene, holds immense promise for application in energy, sensors and information storage, but more work is needed, according to a ...

Nanophysics Feb 17, 2023

Researchers develop greener alternative to fossil fuels by producing hydrogen from water and light

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry have engineered silicon nanowires that can convert sunlight into electricity by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a greener ...

Nanomaterials Feb 15, 2023

Researchers find thermal limits of advanced nanomaterials

A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers at the High-Performance Materials Institute is exploring the thermal limits of advanced nanomaterials, work that could have a direct impact on medicine delivery systems, ...

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