News articles – Pagina 12
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InternationalMethane hide-and-seek makes methanol
You can ‘hide’ methane in a cavity of an iron catalyst decorated with an organic structure and thus selectively oxidise it to methanol.
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InternationalAlgae autocatalyse biofuel production
The alga Chlorella variabilis can convert medium fatty acids into petrol-like hydrocarbons. However, commercial application is still a long way off.
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InternationalIron couples Suzuki
With a well-designed iron catalyst, it is easy to make Suzuki-Miyaura couplings, US researchers show in ACS Catalysis.
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InternationalHelix ‘catches’ chiral oxygen
For the first time ever, British researchers created a molecule with its single chiral centre on an oxygen atom.
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InternationalPast the von Neumann bottleneck in thousands of steps
Miniaturisation and integration into existing electronics are key to the large-scale application of memristors, programmable resistors that combine memory and processor in computers. Researchers in Groningen and the US are now developing methods to get more out of their memristors.
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InternationalERC Advanced Grants 2022 announced
The recipients of the prestigious (and substantial) ERC Advanced Grants 2022 were announced yesterday, also featuring members of the Dutch and Flemish chemistry communities.
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InternationalBiosensor as a Geiger counter
Chinese researchers have developed a biosensor that uses thioflavin T to detect strontium ions.
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International‘One MOF particle to rule them all’
Science communication takes many forms. One very special form remains the annual ‘Dance your PhD’ competition, with this year’s chemistry winner depicting Metal Organic Framework research to rap music.
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InternationalMitochondria struggle with crowding
Researchers from Nijmegen can now experimentally show that macromolecular crowding occurs in mitochondria.
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InternationalWarm star cloud shows water’s missing link
Leiden astronomers find evidence that water on Earth outdates than the Sun.
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InternationalCryo-EM reveals new details about RNA origami
Researchers at Aarhus University have used cryo-EM to gain a better understanding of the folding process that dictates RNA origami.
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InternationalSynthetic immune receptors speed disease resistance in crops
Plants lack the ability to develop antibodies against a new virus. British researchers present a new concept: synthetic immune receptors ‘on demand’.
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InternationalIron complex excited for longer
When cyclometallation ligands are used around iron(III), it has an excited state that lasts a thousand times longer.
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InternationalNo Bison kit, but mussel glue
Groningen researchers have elucidated the polymerisation of polydopamine, which is similar to the substance that mussels use to stick to anything.
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InternationalBonding model fails to explain reality
The model behind hydrogen bonds and similar complexes is fundamentally flawed.
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InternationalMummies long preserved by terpenoids from far beyond Egypt
To preserve their mummies, the ancient Egyptians imported resins from Southeast Asia. An early example of globalisation.
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InternationalSearching for optimal conditions for silicate weathering
A European consortium is investigating whether it is possible to accelerate the weathering of silicate rocks in a reactor.
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InternationalPlants take up chemical weapons
If there has been an attack with chemical weapons somewhere, you should be able to see it in the leaves of plants.
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InternationalBacteria digest plastic
Texel researchers demonstrate via carbon isotopes that the bacterium Rhodococcus ruber can eat polyethylene.
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InternationalMetamaterial computes more efficiently than electronics
AMOLF researchers describe their nanostructured metamaterials that can perform mathematical operations.
