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Nanomaterials Jun 5, 2025

From CO₂ to methane: Scientists discover how nickel nanoparticle shape and size control conversion

Every day, tons of CO₂ are released into the atmosphere, but what if we could transform it using clean energy? This is the question explored in a recent Politecnico di Milano study, which was featured on the cover of the ...

Biochemistry Jun 4, 2025

Chemists develop new method to synthesize chiral bridged polycyclic compounds for drug discovery

A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has developed a catalytic enantioselective type II [5 + 2] cycloaddition method to address the challenges of synthesizing chiral bridged polycyclic structures, ...

Analytical Chemistry Jun 4, 2025

Peptide bridge enables cofactor channeling in fusion enzyme and cuts NADPH use

Oxidoreductases are key enzymes in biocatalysis, but their dependence on the cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate) (NAD(P)) presents challenges due to its high consumption and associated costs. Improving ...

Biochemistry May 26, 2025

Assembly instructions for enzymes: Universal rules can help to design an optimal enzyme from scratch

In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have now derived universal rules to enable the de novo ...

Analytical Chemistry May 21, 2025

Graph neural network-guided discovery of Cu-HEA CO₂ reduction catalysts

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) offer tunable compositions and surface structures, presenting significant potential for creating novel active sites to enhance CO2 reduction (CO2RR) catalysis, a key process for sustainable energy.

Analytical Chemistry May 20, 2025

Cobalt catalyst rivals platinum in key industrial reaction

Propane dehydrogenation is a key industrial route to producing propylene without relying on oil. However, its current production processes rely heavily on precious-metal catalysts such as Pt-based materials. Developing efficient ...

Biochemistry May 19, 2025

Designing efficient artificial enzymes with self-assembling protein cages

Natural enzymes are remarkable molecular machines that enable all sorts of essential biochemical reactions. For decades, scientists have sought to create artificial versions of these catalysts for industrial and biomedical ...

Biochemistry May 16, 2025

Ultrahigh throughput screening yields improved DNA polymerase

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a DNA amplification technique valued for its speed, specificity, sensitivity, and simplicity, is increasingly employed in disease diagnostics and genetically modified organism ...

Biochemistry May 12, 2025

Optimized enzymes promote nitrogen-nitrogen bonds to generate bioactive compounds

Microorganisms generate all sorts of materials that could serve as potential agents for combating bacteria and fungi. An international research team has identified and optimized enzymes that can specifically generate a certain ...

Analytical Chemistry May 8, 2025

Advancing electrocatalyst discovery through the lens of data science

The integration of data science into electrocatalysis has significantly advanced the discovery of high-performance catalysts for sustainable energy applications.

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