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• New tool allows scientists to visualize 'Nanoscale' processes
  Scienion, a leading provider of ultra-low volume precision liquid handling systems, and University of California San Diego, today announced that chemists at UC San Diego and automation experts at S...
• Microbots that can remove lead from contaminated water
  Working with colleagues in Barcelona and Singapore, Samuel Sanchez's group used graphene oxide to make their microscale motors, which are able to adsorb lead from industrial wastewater from a level...
• Novel Terahertz Source: Potential for Scanners and Quality Control
  Terahertz waves can be used for numerous applications, such as body scanners for instance, but until now generating them has been difficult and fraught with limitations. Scientists from Jülich, tog...
• Gallium as a new reversible adhesive?
  Some adhesives may soon have a metallic sheen and be particularly easy to unstick. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are suggesting gallium as just such a...
• New type of nanoparticles increase corrosion protection
  Research scientists at INM developed a special type of flake-like zinc-phosphate nanoparticles. These nanoparticles are ten times as long as they are thick. As a result of this anisotropy, the pene...
• Tracking down the causes of polar hydrophobicity
  The question of whether a liquid beads or adheres to a surface plays a role in almost all branches of industry. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg ...
• A new superconductor prepared by an electrochemical route
  Iron-based superconducors were discovered a few years ago as the compound family with the second highest transition temperature besides the cuprate high temperature superconductors. They are promis...
• Van der Waals Forces of individual atoms measured for the first time
  Physicists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this, the...
• How the process of chemical evolution could have proceeded
  Biological evolution was preceded by a long phase of chemical evolution during which precursors of biopolymers accumulated. LMU chemists have discovered an efficient mechanism for the prebiotic syn...
• First successful protein structural analysis in a levitating drop of liquid
  Knowledge of the exact structure of proteins - those biological molecules that perform multifaceted and essential functions in the organism - is crucial, for example, in producing new active ingred...
• Processes for chemical-free cleaning of water in industry
  Water is used as a resource, for cooling or as a solvent. Water also is indispensable in industrial production. Environmentally compatible processing of water now is subject of the "Eco-UV" researc...
• Using neutron crystallography to determine the structures of HIV-1 protease/drug complexes
  HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become one of the world's most serious health and development challenges. Currently, there are approximately 36.9 million people living with HIV and tens of mil...
• X-ray study reveals ultrafast dynamics of photoactive yellow protein
  Using a high-speed X-ray camera, an international team of scientist including researchers from DESY has revealed the ultrafast response of a biosensor to light. The study, published in the US journ...
• Discovery of a new crystal structure family of oxide-ion conductors
  Oxide-ion conducting ceramic materials have received considerable attention because of their potential applications in solid oxide fuel cells, oxygen separation membranes, and gas sensors. Curre...
• Helmholtz Award for work in applied protein analysis and in the measurement of binding energies in helium molecules
  In principle, helium doesn't like combining with its ilk at all. Yet, occasionally, it does exactly this, albeit with extremely slight binding energies. Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt ha...
• New membrane technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions
  The membrane-based separation of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from power stations and industrial facilities has been studied since January 2016 in a project funded by the Federal Ministry for ...
• Process contaminants in vegetable oils and foods
  Glycerol-based process contaminants found in palm oil, but also in other vegetable oils, margarines and some processed foods, raise potential health concerns for average consumers of these foods in...
• Detecting minute nano amounts in environmental samples using field-flow fractionation
  It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products. It's very difficult to detect these nanomaterials ...
• Mechanism for radiation damage identified
  What exactly are the processes when x-ray photons damage biomolecules with a metal centre? This question has been investigated by a team of scientists at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of Hei...
• Folding molecules into screw-shaped structures
  Artificial molecules are like sheets of paper. Chemists can fold them into specific shapes. Transferring the shape of one molecule to another, however, poses a significant challenge. An internat...
• Lotus effect for organic liquids
  Materials scientists at FAU have developed a process that allows self-cleaning properties to be applied to ceramic surfaces that also work for organic liquids such as oils and alcohol. We are a...
• Computational method to visualize molecular dynamics
  Let's say you're trying to pinpoint when a particular past event occurred, but your best possible estimate puts it only within a span of 10,000 years. Now imagine if something could shrink that win...