The strength of hydrogen bonds between two molecules is also influenced by the other atoms in the molecule.
When you build a house or a bookshelf from a warehouse, you often use predefined components. You can do the same with proteins.
With a combination of flow and electrochemistry, you can synthesise the amino acid alanine in a greener way than by fermentation.
It’s a good day for European science thanks to the €652 million that is awarded to 255 researchers through a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.
From the vast amount of water monitoring data, you can extract clusters of substances that may tell you something about the source of micropollutants.
Nine of the seventeen projects funded by RAAK-mkb (with €300,000 each) are related to circular and materials chemistry.
Surprisingly little is known about the molecular basis of our sense of touch. A newly discovered ion channel fills in the picture.
Thanks to a nickel complex, Utrecht researchers have discovered a new H2 activation mechanism that they can follow experimentally.
NBV-member Jack Pronk has been awarded the Novozymes Prize 2024 for his pioneering research into the physiology and metabolism of yeast.
Researchers in Leuven have managed to objectively improve Belgian beers by using artificial intelligence to analyse more than 200 chemical components.
Seven Dutch research consortia have secured funding through the NWO Gravitation programme and molecular-oriented research is well represented.
As one of 42 companies – out of 1083 applications – and the only Belgian company, D-CRBN will receive a grant from the EIC Accelerator programme.
Utrecht chemists provide unexpected experimental confirmation of a theoretical trio.
BIO INX and Rousselot are collaborating on a new, standardised biomedical-grade bioink for printing three-dimensional human tissue.
By playing with the hardware and software of a mass spectrometer, ions can be captured and analysed for much longer, increasing resolution.
Five members of KNCV / NVBMB are among the recipients of a €1.5 million Vici grant.
Danish researchers have come up with a plan to produce and apply the jeans dye indigo in a much more sustainable way.
Using a nickel catalyst and a commercial carbon-14 source, it is easy to radioactively label carboxylic acids.
By first protonating the amine group on a sugar, you can selectively oxidise one of the hydroxy groups with palladium without protecting groups.
It is a popular experiment to introduce children to science: staining a rose with food colouring. An American student did it with fluorescent dye.