Some experiments are really difficult to perform in practice. To gain a detailed understanding of the behaviour of molecular hydrogen (H2), for example, we would have to produce such high pressures as those occurring within ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 24, 2014
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A centuries-old materials bonding process is being tested aboard the International Space Station in an experiment that could pave the way for more materials research of its kind aboard the orbiting laboratory. Sintering is ...
Space Exploration
May 31, 2018
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Ion exchange membranes are needed in (photo)electrolyzers, fuel cells and batteries to separate ions and enable the desired processes. Polymeric membranes such as synthetically produced compounds like NAFION are particularly ...
Polymers
Jul 5, 2023
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Ioliomics is defined as a rapidly emerging research discipline dealing with the studies of ions in liquid phases and revealing fundamental properties of ionic interactions in biological and chemical systems.
Materials Science
Feb 3, 2017
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A research group led by Prof. Zhang Hong from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that RNAs act as a switch to change the fate of phase-separated protein condensates from autophagic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2023
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are studying liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), a biophysical process through which proteins and nucleic acids in a cell are compartmentalized without a membrane. The ...
Biochemistry
Jul 26, 2021
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Life is flexible. All living cells are basically squishy balloons full of water, proteins and DNA, surrounded by oily membranes. Those membranes stand up to significant amounts of stretching and bending, but only recently ...
Biochemistry
May 4, 2016
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The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. Low-sulfur oil standards and regulations on power plants have successfully cut sulfate concentrations in the air, reducing the fine particulate ...
Earth Sciences
May 6, 2021
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In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Dr. Zhu Xueliang's lab at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science of the ...
Biochemistry
Jul 12, 2022
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Scientists working to design more robust and efficient catalysts have achieved a world first with the help of powerful imaging techniques at Diamond Light Source, the UK's synchrotron science facility. The team, which brings ...
Materials Science
Aug 5, 2015
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