News – Pagina 2
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EnglishControlling the ‘temper’ of plastics
In Chicago, a plastic has been developed that can be hard or soft depending on the temperature at which it is synthesised.
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EnglishSolubility of cellulose (dis)solved
Researchers have developed a two-step synthesis to modify cellulose so that it is soluble in water and easily functionalised.
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EnglishBlue cheese now comes in white, green and brown
If you mutate a certain part of the genome of the blue cheese fungus, blue cheese gets a different colour from the traditional blue.
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EnglishRoboChem: synthesising more, better and faster
A home-made photochemistry robot could significantly advance the field of organic (photo)chemistry with rapid yield optimisation and easy scale-up.
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EnglishSteric effects often overlooked
Steric repulsion is important to understand the bond formation process in molecules and your substituents might play a bigger role than you’d expect.
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EnglishWinner of first ever C2W Molecule of the Year announced
Sander Wezenberg (left) receives the cake from editor Daniël Linzel The readers of C2W | Mens & Molecule have chosen the photoswitch calix[4]pyrrole as their favourite molecule of 2023!
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EnglishSensor for ammonia from apple waste
Bio-based molecules that change colour when they react with ammonia can be used as sensors.
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EnglishCobalt complex helps date palm
A dinuclear cobalt complex is particularly effective against a fungus that attacks date palms. Similar complexes also work against bacteria.
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EnglishIneos’s Project One may continue after all
After six months of uncertainty, a new permit for Ineos’ Project One was issued last weekend, reports De Tijd.
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EnglishFWO Research projects senior 2024
The Flemisch FWO awarded funding for research projects by junior and senior researchers.
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EnglishNanobonds create macrofriction
Friction between silicon surfaces appears to depend mainly on the siloxane bonds that form between the two surfaces.
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EnglishChemistry research ready for Take-off
14 December it was announced which NWO Take-off projects will receive funding. The projects, consisting of feasibility studies and early-stage projects, are designed to see if they have commercial or societal applicability.
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EnglishMolecular research wins NWO Open Competition grants and Perspective projects
A large group of KNCV, NBV and NVBMB members had their applications accepted. An overview of the awarded projects.
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EnglishWater oxidation with copper? Follow the rules!
Chemists in Leiden have established a set of guidelines that can lower the oxidation potential of copper-catalysed water oxidation.
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EnglishFast, safe, simple: SuFEx click chemistry goes with the flow
In a flow system, sulphuryl fluoride can be attached to drug precursors, peptides and proteins quickly, safely and efficiently.
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EnglishMachine learning captures chemical intuition to speed up lead optimization
An implicit scoring model is capable of capturing ‘chemical intuition’, researchers from Novartis and Microsoft write in Nature Communications.
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EnglishWatching neuropeptides in action thanks to revolutionary biosensors
Chinese researchers present new biosensors for real-time visualization of neuropeptides in Science.
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EnglishVibrating hairs enable quick release mechanism in mussels
Canadian researchers describe in Science the mechanism by which mussels can detach themselves very quickly.
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EnglishERC Consolidator Grants 2023 announced
Prestigious grants awarded to research into chimeric antigen receptors, metabolomics-based analysis and continuous enzyme evolution.
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EnglishEquilibrium disrupting coating
If you coat the inside of a microfluidic channel with poly-L-lysine, you can use it to influence signals in chemical reaction networks.