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Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
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In the EU funded project MicroMilk European SMEs together with the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves The system preserves the valuable components ...
Geochemistry analysis conducted by the U S Naval Research Laboratory of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas a ...
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years according to new research at ...
Flavor Chemistry
Is there any connection between wine and biodiesel The answer is yes however surprising it may seem Acetals are chemical compounds found in many wines like port for example which give it a unique sweet ...
- Predators affect the carbon cycle, study shows
- Diet likely changed game for some hominids 3.5 million years ago
- Female moths use olfactory signals to choose the best egg-laying sites
- First snapshot of organisms eating each other: Feast clue to smell of ancient Earth
- Do Cells in the Blood, Heart and Lungs Smell the Food We Eat?
Synthetic chemistry
Photoreactions are driven by light energy and are vital to the synthesis of many natural substances Since many of these substances are also useful as active medical agents chemists try to produce them synthetically But ...
- New material to enhance crop yield
- POPUP: Novel organic solar cells
- Revolutionizing solar energy: Quantum waves found at the heart of organic solar cells
- Welcome guests: Added molecules allow metal-organic frameworks to conduct electricity
- Carbon capture and storage: An inside look at a metal-organic framework (MOF) in action
Agrochemistry
The method used to approve pesticides in the EU needs to be revised This was confirmed by a recent study by the Institute for Environmental Sciences Landau According to the study the level of fungicides ...
Electrochemistry
Small test strips made of silver or other metals called coupons are frequently used to assess and predict the speeds at which metals used in outdoor environments pipelines aircraft bridges as well as countless other ...
- Enhancing battery performance for portable electronics
- Scientists invent self-healing battery electrode
- Better batteries through biology? Modified viruses boost battery performance
- New rechargeable flow battery could enable cheaper, more efficient energy storage
- No more leakage of explosive electrolytes in batteries
Materials Science
The same tiny cellulose crystals that give trees and plants their high strength light weight and resilience have now been shown to have the stiffness of steel The nanocrystals might be used to create a ...
- Nanoparticles and their orbital positions
- Low-power tunneling transistor for high-performance devices at low voltage
- Researchers split water into hydrogen, oxygen using light, nanoparticles
- A new material for solar panels could make them cheaper, more efficient
- Graphene-based nano-antennas may enable networks of tiny machines
Photochemistry
Research by Professor Jian Ren Shen at Okayama University demystifies the reaction mechanisms of photosynthesis and the findings may lead to the development of methods for producing an unlimited source of clean energy Professor Jian ...
- General in the Solar Army to High School and College Students: 'We Are Recruiting'
- Off-grid sterilization with 'solar steam'
- Purple sunlight eaters: Microorganisms found in salt flats could offer new path to green hydrogen fuel
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Researchers are developing a new kind of geothermal power plant that will lock away unwanted carbon dioxide CO2 underground and use it as a tool to boost electric power generation by at least 10 times ...
- Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
- Data centers can be cooled down in environmentally friendly, energy efficient ways
- Breathalyzers Could Test Blood Sugar
- Two for one in solar power: New process could revolutionize solar energy harvesting
- Waste could help fuel low carbon energy and transport
Supramolecular Chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry aka chemistry beyond the molecule in which molecules and molecular complexes are held together by non covalent bonds is just beginning to come into its own with the emergence of nanotechnology Metal organic ...
Environmental Chemistry
Drought and climate change: an uncertain future?Drought frequency may increase by more than 20% in some regions of the globe by the end of the 21st century but it is difficult to be more precise as we don't know yet how ...
- Hack the planet? Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored
- Piece-by-piece approach to emissions policies can be effective, study finds
- Lost freshwater may double climate change effects on agriculture
- Global warming: Four degree rise will end vegetation 'carbon sink', research suggests
- Ethanol blends carry hidden risk
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- Drought and climate change: an uncertain future?
- Hack the planet? Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored
- Uranium (IV) found to be mobile in a natural wetland
- Radioactivity muddles alphabet of DNA
- Infrared sheds light on single protein complexes
- Targeted synthesis of natural products with light
- Researchers develop advanced 3D 'force microscope'
- DNA motor 'walks' along nanotube, transports tiny particle
- New material to enhance crop yield
- Nitrogen deposition poses threat to diversity of Europe's forest vegetation
- Piece-by-piece approach to emissions policies can be effective, study finds
- Lost freshwater may double climate change effects on agriculture
- Global warming: Four degree rise will end vegetation 'carbon sink', research suggests
- Alzheimer substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow
- Small size enhances charge transfer in quantum dots
- Ultrafast heating of water: This pot boils faster than you can watch it
- Graphene nanoribbons an ice-melting coat for radar
- Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green' wonder material
- High-resolution 3-D imaging draws new picture of Golgi's whereabouts during cell division
- Nanoparticles and their orbital positions
- Green innovator: Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boards
- SOFs take to water: First soluble 2-D supramolecular organic frameworks created
- Golden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules
- Microprinting leads to low-cost artificial cells
- FDA to Review Safety of Chemicals in Soaps, Cornell Expert Available
- Ancient Chemical Bond May Aid Cancer Therapy
- Ethanol blends carry hidden risk
- Deep-sea corals record dramatic long-term shift in Pacific Ocean ecosystem
- Low-power tunneling transistor for high-performance devices at low voltage
- Can we turn unwanted carbon dioxide into electricity?
- Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves
- Researchers split water into hydrogen, oxygen using light, nanoparticles
- POPUP: Novel organic solar cells
- Researcher Studies Evolution on the Molecular Level
- Risk assessment for pesticides in EU unsuitable for use in field
- A new material for solar panels could make them cheaper, more efficient
- New results from inside the ozone hole
- Graphene-based nano-antennas may enable networks of tiny machines
- Revolutionary method for gluing gels and biological tissues
- Physicists provide answers for predicted behavior in relaxors: Thin films studied used in electronic devices
- Smashing science: Scientists discover how explosives respond to shockwaves
- Revolutionizing solar energy: Quantum waves found at the heart of organic solar cells
- Noble gas molecule discovered in space
- Programming smart molecules: Machine-learning algorithms could make chemical reactions intelligent
- Efficient removal of uranium, other heavy metals from water
- Precise docking sites for cells
- First measurement flight: Research aircraft HALO explores trade wind clouds
- Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres
- RAVAN to help solve an earth science mystery
- Missing Molecule in Chemical Production Line Discovered
- Rivers and streams release more greenhouse gas than all lakes
- Hard rock life: Collecting census data on microbial denizens of hardened rocks
- Survey of supposed deep-sea chemical munitions dump off Southern California
- More light shed on possibility of life on Mars
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