International – Pagina 12
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InternationalPodium: Ludovic Jourdin
Our members form the beating heart of our societies. Here, we regularly highlight one of them. This time, it’s NBV-member Ludovic Jourdin.
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InternationalBiosurfactant synthesis in deep eutectic solvents
Natural deep eutectic solvents can be used to produce an interesting biosurfactant in a more sustainable way without organic solvents, Antwerp researchers write in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
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InternationalBiochemical alchemy, greasy proteins and quantum molecules: Vidi grants have been announced
A variety of molecular science project can take off thanks to an NWO Vidi grant. Ranging from CO2 fixation and supramolecular materials capable of learning to AI and sweet molecules.
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InternationalClumping pests
A team from Umeå University in Sweden has been studying how bacteria pass on their resistance genes to each other, resulting in a beautiful picture.
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InternationalKNCV Gold Medal 2024 awarded to Caroline Paul
Jury praises her pioneering and creative research on biocatalysis, which opens new technological routes towards sustainable chemical production.
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InternationalArtificial cell communication: protein on demand
Researchers in Eindhoven have developed an artificial cell system that mimics the mutual communication of biological cells.
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InternationalReducing enzyme can also oxidise
NADPH dehydrogenase can not only reduce but also oxidise by simply raising the pH, as researchers from Delft show in ChemCatChem.
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InternationalThriving in academia with a chronic condition
Isabelle Kohler shares her experience of navigating academia while managing health struggles, offering practical strategies for others to thrive too.
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InternationalEnzyme Superheroes
Ivana Drienovská specializes in designing enzymes for reactions that do not occur in nature.
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InternationalHarnessing AI for a greener future
Using AI, Nongnuch Artrith predicts which new materials have the most potential. This way, AI can help us create a greener future.
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InternationalElectricity from greenhouse gas eating bacteria
Cornelia Welte is working on a battery in which methane is converted into green energy through microbes.
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InternationalA customised cellular living environment
Maritza Rovers builds a microgel that supports damaged cells in our bodies.
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InternationalBuilding with (pruning) wood
Burning construction waste and wood is not efficient. Beyond Wood produces building materials from pruning waste that can be used more than once.
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InternationalMachine learning and computational hydrogenation: an experiment
Chemists from Delft published one of the largest datasets of a model of rhodium-catalysed hydrogenation that showed surprisingly little.
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InternationalNobel Prize in Chemistry goes to protein folding computer
Source: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach Left to right: David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the prediction of protein structure and folding.
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InternationalNobel Prize in physics goes to machine learning
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for ‘fundamental discoveries and innovations that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.
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InternationalUnderstanding nickel complexes step by step
Using quantum chemical calculations, a Utrecht-Amsterdam team analyses the synthesis, reactivity and bond formation of nickel carbene complexes.
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InternationalHot plasma is a more efficient NH3 cracker
Hot plasmas are better than cold plasmas for cracking ammonia for green hydrogen, Antwerp researchers discovered.
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InternationalNobel Prize in Physiology for microRNA discovery
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.