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- A simple way to remove nanomaterials from contaminated water
Nano implies small-and that's great for use in medical devices, beauty products and smartphones-but it's also a problem. The tiny nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes and other nanomaterials that ma... - New process turns decades into hours for mining-water purification
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations - 25 to 50 years on average - leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, ... - Periodic table of protein complexes
The Periodic Table of Protein Complexes, published today in Science, offers a new way of looking at the enormous variety of structures that proteins can build in nature, which ones might be discove... - Spectroscopic characterization of isomerization transition states
For the first time, MIT chemists have measured the energy of the transition state of a chemical reaction - a fleeting, unstable state that is a reaction's point of no return. Chemists have long bel... - Nanostructured germanium for portable photovoltaics and battery electrodes
Using a new procedure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich (LMU) can now produce extremely thin and robust, yet highly porous sem... - A new sensor to detect physiological levels of nitrate and nitrite
A team led by Professor Takafumi Uchida has created a new technique for visualizing the dynamics of nitrate (NO3-) and nitrite (NO2-), both markers of nitric oxide in a cell. Nitric oxide is a crit... - Honeywell Completes Acquisition Of Research Chemicals Business From Sigma-Aldrich
Honeywell announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Seelze, Germany-based laboratory research chemicals business from Sigma-Aldrich, broadening Honeywell's offerings for high-purity so... - Microplastics: Rhine One of the Most Polluted Rivers Worldwide
Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the a... - Down to the atom: Bacterial skeleton in close-up by solid-state NMR
For a long time, bacteria were considered to be primitive structures, and it was not until the most modern of imaging techniques were used that their fine inner structure was discovered. The Berlin... - Meat and bone meal as a source of phosphorus
Slaughterhouse waste is processed into meat and bone meal and subsequently fed to livestock or incinerated. This meal could be put to better use, though. It contains phosphorus, a scarce mineral us... - Detection of nano silicon dioxide in tomato soup using MALS-ICP-MS
In a joint project with researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria) and the Technical University of Denmark, JRC scientists developed a suitable analytical approach for the detection of sil... - Co-translational protein folding on the ribosome monitored in real time
Proteins are biopolymers assembled from 20 naturally occurring amino acids connected via peptide bonds. In living cells the process of protein synthesis is catalyzed by ribosomes which translate th... - A probably new way to make X-rays
The most widely used technology for producing X-rays - used in everything from medical and dental imaging, to testing for cracks in industrial materials - has remained essentially the same for more... - Study shows plasmonic sensors and catalysts need not be mutually exclusive
Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient industrial processes, according to a Rice University scientist. Catalysts are ... - Direct conversion of amorphous carbon into diamond at ambient pressures and temperatures in air
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond. They have also develo... - Advanced new camera can measure greenhouse gases
A camera so advanced that it can photograph and film methane in the air around us is now presented by a team of researchers from Linköping and Stockholm Universities. It can be an important part of... - Analysis Preparation in large sample volumes
RETSCH GmbH have enhanced their product range with a complete line of instruments for applications with large feed sizes and high throughput rates. The new program will be integrated into the exist... - Success in producing a completely Rare-Earth free FeNi magnet
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have succeeded in producing a completely rare-earth free high-quality FeNi magnet. The team, led by Professor Akihiro Makino as principal investigator is... - Discovery of a new particle
Studying peculiar properties of a long known metallic material researchers have chanced upon a new particle. It is related to the so-called Weyl fermions that the mathematician Hermann Weyl predict... - New X-ray method uses scattering to visualize nanostructures
Both in materials science and in biomedical research it is important to be able to view minute nanostructures, for example in carbon-fiber materials and bones. A team from the Technical University ...