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October 6, 2020

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How Urban Grime Affects Chemical Reactions in Cities

Many city surfaces are coated with a layer of soot, pollutants, metals, organic compounds and other molecules known as'urban grime.' Chemical reactions that occur in this complex milieu can affect ...

How a Toxic Chromium Species Could Form in Drinking Water

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought much-needed attention to the problem of potentially toxic metals being released from drinking water distribution pipes when water chemistry changes. Now, ...

Breaking COVID-19's 'Clutch' to Stop Its Spread

The virus that causes COVID-19 uses a clutch-like shifter to enable transcription of one RNA string into multiple proteins, and therein lies a vulnerability. A proof-of-concept study shows it's ...

The Key to Lowering CO2 Emissions Is Made of Metal

Researchers produce malic acid, which contains 4 carbon atoms, through artificial photosynthesis by simply adding metal ions like aluminum and iron. This solves a problem with current artificial ...
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'Stretching Rack' for Cells

An ingenious device, only a few micrometers in size, lets researchers study the reaction of individual biological cells to mechanical ...

Spin Clean-Up Method Brings Practical Quantum Computers Closer to Reality

Researchers create a quantum algorithm that removes spin contaminants while making chemical calculations on quantum computers. This allows for predictions of electronic and molecular behavior with ...

New Method Allows Precise Gene Control by Light

A novel optical switch makes it possible to precisely control the lifespan of genetic 'copies'. These are used by the cell as building instructions for the production of ...

Method to Create Colloidal Diamonds Developed

The colloidal diamond could make light waves as useful as electrons in computing, and hold promise for a host of other applications. Researchers have devised a new process for the reliable ...

A Multishot Lensless Camera in Development Could Aid Disease Diagnosis

A new type of imaging does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to take multiple shots of an object. The electric-field directed self-assembling mask technology is expected ...

Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells With Enhanced Stability and Minimized Lead Leakage

While the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) has already greatly improved in the past decade, the problems of instability and potential environmental impact are yet to be ...

Smart Cells: Chemists Develop Tool With Potential to Treat Illness at the Cellular Level

New research by an international team of chemists describes a new type of artificial cell that can communicate with other cells within the body -- with potential applications in the field of smart ...

Physicists Develop Printable Organic Transistors

Scientists have come a step closer to the vision of a broad application of flexible, printable electronics. The team has succeeded in developing powerful vertical organic transistors with two ...

Chemists Make Cellular Forces Visible at the Molecular Scale

Scientists have developed a new technique using tools made of luminescent DNA, lit up like fireflies, to visualize the mechanical forces of cells at the molecular ...

Sodium-Ion Batteries Are a Valid Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries

A team of scientists combined their knowledge and expertise to assess the current status of the Na-ion technology from materials to cell development, offering a realistic comparison of the key ...

New Discovery to Have Huge Impact on Development of Future Battery Cathodes

A new article reveals how researchers fully identified the nature of oxidized oxygen in the important battery material - Li-rich NMC - using RIXS (Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering). This compound ...

Better Catalysts for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Researchers want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. Today, these compounds are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry and have been used as catalysts in oil refineries since ...

The Right Formula for Scaling Production of Promising Material to Decontaminate Water

Researchers have found a way to refine and reliably produce an unpredictable and hard-to-control material that could impact environmental conservation, energy and consumer electronics. The material, ...

Shape Matters for Light-Activated Nanocatalysts

Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light, according to recent ...

Supercooled Water Is a Stable Liquid, Scientists Show for the First Time

First-ever measurements provide evidence that extremely cold supercooled water exists in two distinct structures that co-exist and vary in proportion dependent on ...

Effective Pathway to Convert CO2 Into Ethylene

The scientists developed nanoscale copper wires with specially shaped surfaces to catalyze a chemical reaction that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while generating ethylene -- a valuable chemical ...

New Photoactivation Mechanism for Polymer Production

A team of researchers has demonstrated a way to use low-energy, visible light to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions. The work not only poses a potential solution to current ...

Going Small for Big Solutions: Sub-Nanoparticle Catalysts Made from Coinage Elements as Effective Catalysts

'Sub-nanometer' particles (SNPs) are very popular because of their diverse applications, but technical difficulties in their synthesis has hindered research in this field. Scientists used ...

Energy Harvesting Goes Organic, Gets More Flexible

The race is on to create natural biocompatible piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting, electronic sensing, and stimulating nerves. A group of researchers has explored peptide-based nanotubes ...

DNA Damage Caused by Migrating Light Energy

Ultraviolet light endangers the integrity of human genetic information and may cause skin cancer. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that DNA damage may also occur far away from the ...

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