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Enzyme Superheroes
Ivana Drienovská specializes in designing enzymes for reactions that do not occur in nature.
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Harnessing 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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Electricity 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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A customised cellular living environment
Maritza Rovers builds a microgel that supports damaged cells in our bodies.
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Building 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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Machine 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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Nobel 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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Nobel 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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Understanding 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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Hot 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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Nobel 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.
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Not all that glitters is gold
Researchers from the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, came across unusual arsenic sulfide pigments that Rembrandt, among others, used to create strikingly shiny details in his work.
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An introvert’s guide to professional events
Isabelle Kohler offers practical tips to help introverts not onlly survive but even thrive at conferences and professional events.
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Programming molecular memory
Using a simple autocatalytic reaction, researchers have programmed a chemical reaction network that has memory and performs logical functions.
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(Not) sharing is caring
Using a combination of heat and light, symmetric σ-bonds can be broken asymmetrically, German researchers show in Nature.
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Zapping sand
Turning soft beaches into hard rock. American researchers managed this (at least on lab scale) by exposing sea-soaked sand to a mild electric current.
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Will the real H-bond please stand up?
A 2023 paper in JACS suggested that the definition of hydrogen bonding should be extended to include hydrides. A team from Amsterdam responds.
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Cleaner polystyrene thanks to improved degassing
Modifications to the degassing process have enabled Ineos Styrolution Antwerp to increase the purity of its food-grade high-impact polystyrene.
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Crash course in computational chemistry
The TheoCheM group from VU Amsterdam is now offering a course to get chemists from various disciplines up to (computational) speed in just five days.