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InternationalCompanies and talent meet at ChemAI event
The combination of chemistry and AI offers all kinds of opportunities. At the ChemAI event in Amsterdam, different perspectives will be discussed.
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InternationalSugar substitute affects cakes
Replacing sucrose with a substitute in your cake batter has a major impact on the final outcome of your baking, Flemish researchers have found.
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InternationalPC cases can now be recycled
Covestro has developed a process for the chemical recycling of polycarbonate.
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InternationalMolecular research rewarded with ERC Synergy Grants
Several Dutch research groups ensure substantial funding.
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InternationalFolding DNA-nanoturbines
An international team has created a turbine based on DNA origami in a nanopore that converts electrical energy into mechanical work.
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InternationalProtein cuts liposomes in half
The protein dynamin A in liposomes can be used as a one-component cell division machine.
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InternationalNew: secondary amines in your protein
Scientists in Amsterdam have succeeded in incorporating amino acids with a secondary amine into a protein to give it an enzymatic function.
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InternationalSilane manipulation with arenium ion
Using dichloroethane and Reed’s benzenium ion as a catalyst, alkyl-substituted silicon can be very selectively modified.
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InternationalFascinating Orange
Sometimes when you’re doing research you come across something beautiful that you can’t quite explain.
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InternationalNobel Prize goes nano
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
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InternationalNobel Prize for mRNA vaccines
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the modification and use of mRNA for Covid vaccines.
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InternationalBenzene carbon replaced with nitrogen
US chemists have found a way to regioselectively replace one of the carbon atoms in a benzene ring with a nitrogen atom.
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InternationalOctopus suction cup for drug delivery
Swiss researchers are taking inspiration from octopus suckers for a new, non-invasive method of delivering biopharmaceuticals.
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InternationalGraphene smells NO2
An electronic nose based on covalently modified graphene is very sensitive to nitrogen dioxide.
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InternationalFertiliser production with copper-zinc catalyst
Researchers in Eindhoven are using electrocatalysis on a copper and zinc oxide catalyst to produce the fertiliser urea from two waste products.
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InternationalCarbene stripped bare
For the first time, scientists have managed to remove the lone pair of carbene and isolate the resulting doubly oxidised molecule.
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InternationalIg Nobel Prize in Chemistry for essay on the history of rock licking
Research into why scientists like to lick rocks wins joint Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Geology.
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InternationalNature paper on lithium-sulphur batteries tells only half the story
Chinese researchers explain the loss of sulphur in lithium-sulphur batteries in a Nature paper. Moniek Tromp is critical.
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InternationalPulsating pumping prevents turbulence
For more efficient pumping of fluids, we should take the pulsating heart as an example, Austrian researchers suggest.
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InternationalCatalysis like clockwork
Groningen-based researchers designed an oscillating small molecule reaction that catalyses another reaction in the same system, Nature reports.