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ERC Proof of Concept grants 2024 announced
For 19 scientists in Belgium and The Netherlands, good news arrived just in time for the summer holidays as they were granted an ERC Proof of Concept grant.
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From black biotar to biopolymer
A biorefinery waste product can be easily processed into functional powders and tough polymers, Leuven researchers show in ChemSusChem.
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From methanol to formaldehyde at high TEMPO
If you attach the TEMPO catalyst to an electrode, it can replace the role of platinum in the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde.
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Millions for circular plastic projects
Ten projects have been awarded €6 million each by the National Growth Fund program Circular Plastics NL to make circular plastics.
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Nanoparticle ligands captured in graphene
If you put gold nanoparticles in a graphene shell, you can see the molecules on the gold surface with an electron microscope, even in a liquid.
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Chemical reaction performs complex calculations
Chemists in Nijmegen have developed a reservoir computing system that uses the formose reaction to perform complex calculations, Nature reports.
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Food fight
Harmful bacteria? Don’t be too quick to judge, because sometimes toxins can also be protective.
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Stronger under pressure: new synthetic bond
Researchers in Wageningen have become the first to create catch bonds in the laboratory, which become stronger when force is applied to them.
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The specs of PECs unravelled
A team of scientists from Twente was able to solve a hundred-year-old riddle concerning the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) with NMR.
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Antimalarial drug decreases testosterone production in ovaries
Chinese researchers describe how an antimalarial drug inhibits the excess production of ‘male’ hormones, which is a hallmark symptom of PCOS.
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Polymer waste electrochemically recycled
Electrochemical recycling, made with AI Electrochemistry may be an underexplored option for recycling plastic waste, researchers show in a review in Chemical Science.
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Cheap and sustainable cross-coupling photocatalyst
Graphitic carbon nitride is able to replace iridium as a photocatalyst in cross coupling reactions, greatly reducing cost and carbon footprint.
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Fully recyclable silicone elastomers
Researchers from Ghent have developed a scalable method to make silicone elastomers fully recyclable.
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Francqui Prize for Veronique Van Speybroeck
Veronique Van Speybroeck will be awarded the 2024 Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences for her pioneering computational work on catalysts.
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Metal-free MOF makes imines
Pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks and blue light can be used to make imines in an environmentally friendly way.
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Protein gear gives flagella two rotation directions
Bacteria swim with flagella, and a clever switching system allows them to aim at a target. New research shows how the flagellar drive changes direction.
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New KNAW members 2024
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has added 17 new members, including three KNCV members.
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Hydrogenation with transition metal mimics
Silicon, germanium and tin versions of carbenes make good hydrogen activators for hydrogenation reactions, quantum calculations show.
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First designer enzyme with boron chemistry
Researchers in Groningen have built a variant of boric acid into an enzyme, a first in the world of designer enzymes.
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Rubicon Grant sends researchers abroad
Seventeen young researchers have recently been awarded a Rubicon Grant in the third and final round of 2023.