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The research group of Nuno Maulide from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna has, in cooperation with the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, achieved the synthesis of a potential immunosuppressive…
Toxicity screening of cosmetics, sunscreens and pharmaceuticals is made easier with microfluidic dev
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — Proteins are good for building muscle, but their building blocks also might be helpful for building sustainable organic batteries that could someday be a viable substitute for conventional lithium-ion batteries, without their safety and…
Researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Bonn regulate the activity of RNA molecules
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — You are what you eat — right down to the microbiome living in your gut. Diet can affect which microbes are in the intestinal tract, and research has shown that harmful gut microbiome changes…
«This work is an important milestone in the framework of a large project, aimed at full characterization of a novel bioluminescent system, including the luciferase enzyme, luciferin substrate, key reaction products, the mechanism of light-emission, and biosynthetic pathways for luciferin…
Natalia Kuznetsova, a graduate of a NUST MISIS master’s program “Technologies and Materials of Digital Fabrication”, has developed a new biodegradable composite material with nettle fiber as a filler. Chemelot Campus (Netherlands), one of the largest chemical clusters in Europe…
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Binghamton University, State University of New York will acquire a sophisticated new X-ray tool useful in materials research and R&D for electronics. The $1.75 million system — the third of its kind in the world and the…
SISSA scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California at Davis, develop
A study finds that when pure water is atomized into microdroplets, the droplets can spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide at a concentration of around 1 ppm without any reagent, catalyst, or radiation; the finding suggests a method for inexpensive, environment-friendly production…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Polyurethane is used in a wide range of materials, including paints, foam mattresses, seat cushions and insulation. These diverse applications generate large amounts of waste. A team at the University of Illinois has developed a method to…
Water is everywhere on Earth, but maybe that just gives it more space to hide its secrets. Its latest surprise, Stanford researchers report Aug. 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , is that microscopic droplets of water…
Can you manipulate the taste of noble cocoas in different directions to create exciting new flavors
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt (GSI), the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz are the organizers of this year’s TAN conference. There are currently 118 elements listed in the periodic table. 92 of them occur naturally…
Solar cells that rely on perovskites to harvest sunlight are bound to gain in energy conversion efficiency thanks to an atomic-level understanding of the structure-property relationship of these photovoltaic materials. Researchers from the KAUST Solar Center monitored the impact of…
Water electrolysis could provide high-quality hydrogen gas that can be used in fuel cells directly. However, since noble metals, such as platinum and iridium, are currently needed to initiate such a reaction, the cost is very high. “Obviously, catalysts that…
With the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing this year, it could be argued that the greatest science of the 20th Century was about big machines that could travel the universe. The rise of nanotechnology is suggesting…
NYU Tandon School of Engineering team discovers sweet spot in electrochemical production of nylon’s
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — In addition to their role in plant fertilization and reproduction, pollens and spores have another, hidden talent: With a simple treatment, these cheap, abundant and renewable grains can be converted into tiny sponge-like particles…
Scientists from NUST MISIS have turned hogweed into a material for a supercapacitor
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — A polymer that self-destructs? While once a fictional idea, new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission’s completion. The…
Russian scientists suggested a model describe the distribution of heat in ultrapure crystals at the
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — Flame retardants are present in thousands of everyday items, from clothing to furniture to electronics. Although these substances can help prevent fire-related injuries and deaths, they could have harmful effects on human health and…
Surprising behavior could safeguard information stored in quantum bits
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — Polyurethane waste is piling up in landfills, but scientists have a possible solution: They have developed a method to make polyurethane degradable. Once the original product’s useful life is over, the polymer can easily…
Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery – a potential battery powerhouse relegated for decades to the laboratory by its short life expectancy and occasional fiery demise while its rechargeable sibling, the lithium-ion battery, now rakes in…
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2019 — Saliva from a tick’s bite can transmit pathogens that cause serious illnesses, such as Lyme disease, and significant agricultural losses. Current insecticides have drawbacks, so scientists have been seeking new ways to prevent these…
SUTD together with research collaborators provide much needed analysis and review of the emerging re
An efficient light-matter interface might constitute the foundation of quantum communication. Howeve
Since its rediscovery and characterization in 2004, graphene has been the focus of countless research efforts across multiple fields. It is a very versatile material consisting of a two-dimensional (2D) carbon network; in other words, it comprises a thin sheet…
Japanese scientists have found a new way to successfully detect the efficiency of crystal semiconductors. For the first time ever, the team used a specific kind of photoluminescence spectroscopy, a way to detect light, to characterize the semiconductors. The emitted…
Mapping the evolution of complex uranium oxide species has practical applications from Mars explorat
The nanostructures from Katja Höflich’s HZB team are shaped like corkscrews and made of silver. Mathematically, such a nano antenna can be regarded as an one-dimensional line that forms a helix, characterized by parameters such as diameter, length, number of…
$1.8M in grants goes to UMass Lowell-led work in emerging field of QIS
Matter behaves differently when it’s tiny. At the nanoscale, electric current cuts through mountains of particles, spinning them into vortexes that can be used intentionally in quantum computing. The particles arrange themselves into a topological map, but the lines blur…
According to general relativity, the presence of a massive object slows down the flow of time. This means that a clock placed close to a massive object will run slower as compared to an identical one that is further away.…
Properties of complex materials are often determined by the interplay of several electron properties
Ion therapy harnesses complex atomic effects to destroy cancer cells. Now, researchers at TU Wien ha
Using CRISPR as the “switcher,” hydrogels infused with DNA can be programmed to translate biological information into changes in the constituent gel material’s properties, researchers say, triggering the gels to release compounds or nanoparticles, for example. The approach presents a…
Government-funded Kopernikus Project P2X: Integrated container-scale test facility produces fuels fr
Our urine reveals our well-being and how we treat our body; a researcher at Aarhus University develo
An analysis of helium isotopes locked inside “super-deep” diamonds hundreds of kilometers below Earth’s surface suggests that vast reservoirs of molten primordial source rock, perhaps nearly as old as the Earth, are present. The helium-bearing diamonds studied as part of…
A group of researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen have figu
A paper was published in Frontiers in Chemistry
Physics experiments are often time-consuming and expensive. Sometimes scientists do not realize until the very end that they have been using the wrong calibration for measurements the whole time. What if there were a way to go back in time…
A group of researchers led by Skoltech Professor Pavel Troshin studied coordination polymers, a class of compounds with scarcely explored applications in metal-ion batteries, and demonstrated their possible future use in energy storage devices with a high charging/discharging rate and…
Starting on 1 October 2019, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winner Dr Angelo Di Bernardo will contribute to the research carried out at the University of Konstanz in the area of Nano and Materials Science with his expertise in superconducting spintronics.…
Team is working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast growing non-edibl
Self-calibrating technology opens new opportunities for medicine and research
Volkswagen Foundation to provide funding of EUR 1.5 million
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