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InternationalBridging Bonds Speaker Highlight: Matt Baker (Maastricht)
The new symposium Bridging Bonds will uncover the collaboration potential of soft matter and macromolecules. Here we highlight speaker Matt Baker, associate professor at Maastricht University.
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InternationalThe best of both monomers
By fusing two commonly used monomers into a new monomer, you can combine their best properties, a Leuven team shows in ChemSusChem.
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InternationalIg Nobel prize for drunken worms
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded again last night, and Dutch scientists from Amsterdam won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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InternationalNew ‘super antibiotic’ overcomes resistance
A team from Leiden has developed an extremely potent antibiotic against Gram-positive bacteria, including drug resistant strains.
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InternationalSmart intruders
By studying the infection of lung organoids, Swiss researchers revealed how a notorious pathogen deploys a Trojan horse-stategy.
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InternationalA closer look at The Night Watch
For two weeks, a hand-held Laser Speckle Imaging device analysed The Night Watch from just a few centimetres away.
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InternationalHundreds of millions for European ‘starters’
Throughout Europe, 494 researchers will receive a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant. Among the laureates we spotted members from KNCV, NBV and NVBMB.
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International‘Fluoride drugs’ can now be made without PFAS
An international team has developed a synthetic strategy to make NCF3, SCF3 and OCF3 anions for drugs with far fewer PFAS-generating steps.
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InternationalRecyclable superglue
The natural building block α-lipoic acid can be used to make polymers that behave like superglue and are easy to depolymerise locally.
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InternationalERC 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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InternationalFrom 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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InternationalFrom 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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InternationalMillions 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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InternationalNanoparticle 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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InternationalChemical 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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InternationalFood fight
Harmful bacteria? Don’t be too quick to judge, because sometimes toxins can also be protective.
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InternationalStronger 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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InternationalThe 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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InternationalAntimalarial 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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InternationalPolymer 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.