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InternationalFolding DNA-nanoturbines
An international team has created a turbine based on DNA origami in a nanopore that converts electrical energy into mechanical work.
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InternationalStrong focus on single-use in Annex 1
New regulations for the manufacture of sterile drugs also mean that single-use technology suppliers have to take action.
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InternationalProtein cuts liposomes in half
The protein dynamin A in liposomes can be used as a one-component cell division machine.
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InternationalPlant communication visualised
It is known that hurt plants communicate, but how they do so has been a mystery. Now, Japanese researchers show how this happens in real time.
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International’You are the first to know about very cool innovations’.
Marjolein Velthoen (32) chose a career as a patent attorney after completing a PhD in catalysis, perfectly combining science and language.
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InternationalNew: secondary amines in your protein
Scientists in Amsterdam have succeeded in incorporating amino acids with a secondary amine into a protein to give it an enzymatic function.
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InternationalFabian Eisenreich – Sunlight-driven plastic recycling
Fabian Eisenreich is investigating how we can use light to break down plastic to reduce the amount of plastic waste that pollutes our environment.
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InternationalSilane manipulation with arenium ion
Using dichloroethane and Reed’s benzenium ion as a catalyst, alkyl-substituted silicon can be very selectively modified.
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InternationalFascinating Orange
Sometimes when you’re doing research you come across something beautiful that you can’t quite explain.
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InternationalRoy van der Meel – Making your own tailor-made drugs
Roy van der Meel is investigating whether he can use natural building blocks such as fats to transport mRNA codes around the body.
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International‘We cannot continue to rely on platinum and palladium’
ChemistryViews talks to Bert Klein Gebbink, Utrecht University, about his fascination for mangenese and iron catalysts.
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InternationalRestrictions on DMF: A Catalyst for Change?
The European Union is about to restrict the use of the solvent DMF. What does this mean for the industry where DMF is still widely used?
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InternationalNobel Prize goes nano
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
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InternationalNobel Prize for mRNA vaccines
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the modification and use of mRNA for Covid vaccines.
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InternationalBenzene carbon replaced with nitrogen
US chemists have found a way to regioselectively replace one of the carbon atoms in a benzene ring with a nitrogen atom.
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InternationalOctopus suction cup for drug delivery
Swiss researchers are taking inspiration from octopus suckers for a new, non-invasive method of delivering biopharmaceuticals.
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InternationalGraphene smells NO2
An electronic nose based on covalently modified graphene is very sensitive to nitrogen dioxide.
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InternationalFertiliser production with copper-zinc catalyst
Researchers in Eindhoven are using electrocatalysis on a copper and zinc oxide catalyst to produce the fertiliser urea from two waste products.
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InternationalCarbene stripped bare
For the first time, scientists have managed to remove the lone pair of carbene and isolate the resulting doubly oxidised molecule.
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InternationalIg Nobel Prize in Chemistry for essay on the history of rock licking
Research into why scientists like to lick rocks wins joint Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Geology.