The dynamics of water near solid surfaces play a critical role in numerous technologies, including water filtration and purification, chromatography and catalysis. One well-known way to influence those dynamics, which in ...
Materials Science
Aug 20, 2018
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Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
Nanomaterials
Aug 2, 2018
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Graphene coatings may offer the ability to control the water evaporation process from various surfaces, according to new research.
Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2018
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HITS researchers developed tauRAMD, a tool to predict drug-target residence times from short simulations. The method is illustrated on the cover page of July 2018 issue of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, software ...
Biochemistry
Jul 12, 2018
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Even living cells have their own tangled problems to solve. They involve knots that arise accidentally in DNA and that can comprise its functionality. Researchers now suggest that the DNA propensity to be supercoiled, just ...
Biochemistry
Jul 6, 2018
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The passage of ions through the cell membrane is controlled by ion channels, which are protein complexes that regulate vital processes, such as the heartbeat, and are a target of drug development. Now, a study at the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2018
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What makes kevlar stop a bullet, at the atomic level?
Materials Science
May 17, 2018
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Testing the blood of patients that doctors believe may be suffering from an electrolyte imbalance is usually a major effort because various selective tests have to be performed. Electrolytes are certain nutrients or chemicals ...
Nanomaterials
May 2, 2018
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Researchers have found new methods to measure the internal pressure and surface tension of nano-sized drops of liquid like those involved in cloud formation and airborne pollutants to study how they behave in different environments. ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 30, 2018
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A study carried out as a collaborative approach between University of Tampere, Finland, and Imperial College London has shown that mechanically regulated proteins talin and α-catenin have stable intermediates during mechanical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2018
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