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Better water purification with seeds from moringa trees
Water glides freely across 'nanodrapes' made from the world's thinnest material
Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen into electricity
In water as in love, likes can attract
Motorized microscopic matchsticks move in water with sense of direction
Rare earth metal essential element for methane-munching acid-volcano microbe
'Soft robotic' devices using water-based gels
Water molecules control inactivation and recovery of potassium channels
Water clears path for nanoribbon development
New research at Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometers wide And it's unlikely that many of the other labs currently trying to harness the ... - Read MoreEfficient and inexpensive: Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Released 10 11 2013 9 35 AM EDTEmbargo expired 10 13 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom McMaster University more news from this source Oct 15 2013 Hamilton ON Oct 13 2013 Researchers at McMaster ...
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 ...
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 ...
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no picA research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics MANA of NIMS discovered an intriguing phenomenon in which an inorganic layered crystal expanded and contracted by 100 times its original size in a few ... - Read MoreSeparation Processes
Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesisBiophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers ...
- Broadening the scope for synthesizing optically active compounds
- Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
- Game changer for synthesizing new materials: Method synthesizes thousands of new compounds with ultra low thermal conductivity
- Evaporation: Tiny temperature differences are primary driving force in droplet evaporation
- Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection
Chemical Physics
Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computingDartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum ...
Bioinorganic Chemistry
How knots can swap positions on a DNA strandPhysicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz JGU and the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz MAINZ have been able with the aid of computer simulations to confirm and explain a mechanism by which ...
- Artificial enzyme mimics natural detoxification mechanism in liver cells
- Compact, extremely small-scale incubator microscope to examine cells in time lapse
- DNA can be damaged by very low-energy radiation
- Combatting hospital-acquired infections with protein metal complex
- BLAST off! Exploring the universe of biochemical reactions
Neurochemistry
Fluorescent sensor developed for detecting nitric oxide, a molecule related to many diseasesThe detection of certain chemical compounds in our body is essential to prevent many diseases and set out their treatment Thus making advances in the development of compounds that can be easily detected is key ...
- Ketamine acts as antidepressant by boosting serotonin
- Scientists decode serotonin receptor at room temperature
- Drexel Researchers Looking Inside Vessels to Understand Blood's Ebb and Flow
- Sudden Decline in Testosterone May Cause Parkinson's Disease Symptoms in Men
- Watching molecule movements in live cells
Chemical Engineering
Tracking animals on videos: Software able to identify and track a specific individual within a groupResearchers from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the identification of each individual therefore allowing their tracking within the group Thus the ...
- New method of wormlike motion lets gels wiggle through water
- Engineering a better way to rebuild bone inside the body
- Analysis of financial markets using laws of molecular fluid dynamics
- New insight into thermoelectric materials may boost green technologies
- Making it big: Metamaterial applications a step closer to reality
Crystallography
Liquid crystal as lubricantThanks to a new lubricant small gears can run with virtually no friction Made from liquid crystalline fluid these lubricants drastically reduce friction and wear Lubricants are used in motors axels ventilators and manufacturing machines ...
- Definitive evidence of how zeolites grow: Tracking crystal growth in real time
- Researchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
- Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source: Device is like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable
- Crystal Mysteries Spiral Deeper
- Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle
Chemical Thermodynamics
Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engineThe one cylinder test engine in the basement of a University of Wisconsin Madison lab is connected to a life support system of pipes tubes ducts and cables You might think that the engine resembles ...
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Up in flames: Evidence confirms combustion theory
- World's best thermometer made from light
- Particles near absolute zero do not break the laws of physics after all
- A new way to harness waste heat: Electrochemical approach has potential to efficiently turn low-grade heat to electricity
Sonochemistry
New ultrasound device may add in detecting risk for heart attack, strokeResearchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an ultrasound device that could help identify arterial plaque that is at high risk of breaking off and ...
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than PopeyeSpinach gave Popeye super strength but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists the ability to convert sunlight into a clean efficient alternative fuel Purdue University physicists are ...
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Research could lead to dramatic energy savings at data farms
- Supercomputer tackles grid challenges
- Solar panels light the way from carbon dioxide to fuel
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- The electric slide dance of DNA knots
- Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing
- Technique simplifies creation of high-tech crystals
- Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding parts
- A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos may lead to fast multi-functional processing units on single chip
- Nano-sized chip picks up scent of explosives molecules better than dog's nose
- Eco-pottery product from water treatment sludge
- Cost-effective, solvothermal synthesis of heteroatom (S or N)-doped graphene developed
- Dream come true for chemists? Creating organic zeolites
- Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Unleashing the power of quantum dot triplets
- Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assurance
- Atomic structure of key muscle component revealed
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- Research Finds Bedbugs Can Be Killed with Lower Dosage of Chemical
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink Bugs
- Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimer's conference
- Flashes of light on a superconductor
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Technology produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel cheaply using carbon nanotubes
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
- Sophisticated radiation detector designed for broad public use
- Ultrasound tracks odor representation in brain
- Bacteria Hijack Plentiful Iron Supply Source to Flourish
- Study Yields First Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
- American Chemical Society Meeting Features Hands-On Family Event, Energy Symposia
- New Compound Treats Both Blindness and Diabetes in Animal Studies
- Potent Spider Toxin 'Electrocutes' German, Not American, Cockroaches
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