Chemistry
Optimized amide bond reaction using heterocyclic compounds and carboxylic acid
A high-yield, one-pot, scalable reaction facilitates the production of biologically relevant amide compounds using less reactive nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Volume 13, Issue 1 publishes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/13/issue/1Credit: APSB https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/13/issue/1 Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB) was founded with the goal of creating a global high-level forum centred...
Tsunami in a water glass
So-called hydrated electrons play a major role in many physical, chemical and biological processes. They are not bound to an...
Leipzig researchers develop efficient process for chemical terpene synthesis
A team of scientists led by Professor Tanja Gulder at Leipzig University’s Institute of Organic Chemistry, together with colleagues from...
Keeping drivers safe with a road that can melt snow, ice on its own
Slipping and sliding on snowy or icy roads is dangerous. Salt and sand help melt ice or provide traction, but...
CityU scientists engineer a breath-to-charge electrostatic face mask for prolonged air filtration, reducing the environmental burden
Electrostatic adsorption is an important complement to mechanical filtration for high-efficiency air filtering in the use of face masks. However,...
Proposed quantum device may succinctly realize emergent particles such as the Fibonacci anyon
Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a...
‘Innovative and Impactful’
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Sagar Vijay and Tejaswi Nerella have been selected to receive prestigious...
Putting particle accelerator cavities to the test
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the...
Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”
In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex...
Back to the time of the first Homo Sapiens with a futuristic clock, the new Radiocarbon 3.0
It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new...
Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space
When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a...
Bifunctional sulfonated covalent polymers as modulator for oriented and highly reversible zinc plating during whole cycling process
This study is led by Prof. Xian-Xiang Zeng (School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hunan Agricultural University) and Prof. Xiong-Wei...
Reduced energetic disorder enables over 14% efficiency in organic solar cells based on completely non-fused-ring donors and acceptors
Non-fused-ring organic photoactive materials have attracted broad attention in recent years due to their low synthetic cost. Different from the...
Mashing molecules: An innovative solution towards greener pharmaceuticals
The European Commission has awarded IMPACTIVE almost €7.7 million to reinvent and reinforce the pharmaceutical supply chain. Currently, the production...
The food of the future will come through polyphenols applications
All strategies to redesign, rethink, and reshape food and beverages in order to fit and adapt to our modern-day needs...
Let’s talk to a moth about sex: Polish chemists have ‘made a deal’ with a butterfly threatening pine forests
Beyond the seven mountains and forests, a hungry beast was stealing away. Does this sound like a fairy tale? In...
The perfect pour: model predicts beer head features
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2023 – From creating drinks with distinctive looks to providing aromas for connoisseurs, beer foam is big...
When the light is neither “on” nor “off” in the nanoworld
Whether the light in our living spaces is on or off can be regulated in everyday life simply by reaching...
Four classes of planetary systems
In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars,...
