Efficiently “switching on” bacteria to produce high-value chemicals
Credit: University of Warwick - Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels - industrial chemistry's use of petroleum ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Mechanochemical peptide bond formation behind the origins of life
The emergence of peptides on the prebiotic Earth is an open scientific question since the condensation of amino acids is ...
Machine learning reduces microscope data processing time from months to just seconds
Credit: IBEC Ever since the world's first ever microscope was invented in 1590 by Hans and Zacharias Janssen --a Dutch ...
Absorbent aerogels show some muscle
Rice lab creates spongelike materials for environmental remediation and moreCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 8, 2021) - A ...
Online ‘library of properties’ helps to create safer nanomaterials
Credit: NanoSolveIT Researchers have developed a 'library of properties' to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more ...
Teaching drones to hear screams from catastrophe victims
UAVs are unencumbered by terrain issues, can get above rescue scenesCredit: Macarena Varela, Fraunhofer FKIE MELVILLE, N.Y., June 8, 2021 ...
Balancing speech intelligibility, face covering effectiveness in classrooms
Though masks are necessary for curbing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, their impacts on teachers' speech intelligibility may affect ...
Binder-free MWW-type titanosilicate for selective and durable propylene epoxidation
Credit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis Propylene oxide (PO) is one of the important propylene derivatives with high reactivity, which is ...
CityU scientists make a breakthrough towards solving the structural mystery of glass
Credit: Lan, S., Zhu, L., Wu, Z. et al. / DOI number:10.1038/s41563-021-01011-5 Glass is one of the most common subjects ...
Srinivas Rangarajan wins NSF CAREER award for catalytic transfer hydrogenation research
Lehigh University computational chemical engineer to advance fundamental understanding of promising approach for safe, streamlined, cost-effective biomass and CO2 conversionCredit: ...
DFG extends funding for CRCs at University and University Medical Center G
German Research Foundation reconfirms support for Göttingen CRCsCredit: University of Göttingen The German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended its funding ...
Clever biomolecular labelling enables identification of immune cells
Research team led by the University of Göttingen develops new strategy for labelling peptidesCredit: Nikolaos Kaplaneris, University of Göttingen Biomolecules ...
Stabilizing gassy electrolytes could make ultra-low temperature batteries safer
Credit: Chen group A new technology could dramatically improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries that operate with gas electrolytes at ...
Visualizing cement hydration on a molecular level
Imaging technique could enable new pathways for reducing concrete's hefty carbon footprint, as well as for 3-D printing of concrete.Credit: ...
Atom swapping could lead to ultra-bright, flexible next generation LEDs
Credit: Ella Maru Studio An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make ...
Researchers make new charge storage mechanism discovery
Credit: University of Liverpool Research between the University of Liverpool, UK and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan has revealed ...
Physicist generalized the measurement postulate in quantum mechanics
Credit: ©Science China Press Measurement postulate is crucial to quantum mechanics. If we measure a quantum system, we can only ...
Evolutional history of metal chalcogenide supertetrahedral clusters
Credit: ©Science China Press Nanoclusters, which consist of several or even thousands of atoms, represent an important intermediate state between ...
Robots with T-ray technology to spot and remove cancer tumors in £8 million project
New technology that will marry probes that can detect cancer tumours through the skin with high-precision robotic surgery is to ...
New form of silicon could enable next-gen electronic and energy devices
Novel crystalline form of silicon could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devicesCredit: Image courtesy of Thomas ...