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• New developments in measurement techniques for aspheres
  Whether we are dealing with space telescopes whose lens systems have to be accurate to the nanometer despite their large dimensions or with cell phone cameras or endoscopes, aspheres are used in in...
• Nanotechnology for energy materials: Electrodes like leaf veins
  Nano-sized metallic wires are attracting increasing attention as conductive elements for manufacturing transparent electrodes, which are employed in solar cells and touch screen panels. In addition...
• Enhanced 3D look inside batteries
  A team of NYU chemists has developed a method to yield highly detailed, three-dimensional images of the insides of batteries. The technique, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), offers an enh...
• 'Schroedinger's Cat' molecules give rise to exquisitely detailed movies
  One of the most famous mind-twisters of the quantum world is the thought experiment known as "Schroedinger's Cat," in which a cat placed in a box and potentially exposed to poison is simultaneously...
• Hybrid material opens the door to new possibilities in graphene applications
  Many scientists consider graphene to be a wonder material. Now, a team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded in linking graphene with another important chemical g...
• Metal vacancy orderings in defect anti-perovskite Fe₂SeO
  In crystalline materials, the ordering of two or more different anions is far from understood. The main reason is probably that Nature (our role-model) cannot perform this chemistry easily, as the ...
• Scientists use neutrons to understand the secrets of extremophile bacteria
  Microorganisms represent the most numerous life on earth and the understanding of how they behave is integral to our own survival and well-being. Microbial life has an amazing flexibility for adapt...
• The delicate balancing act of research funding
  Many people see privately funded research as a threat to academic independence, but this is an incomplete view. Experts with close connections to politics and business are a logical consequence of ...
• Validation of newly developed digital polymerase chain reaction methods
  JRC-scientists have investigated the factors that significantly affect the quantification of nucleic acids by digital PCR (dPCR). Digital PCR is the emerging technique for the detection and quantif...
• How natural gas is converted into methanol at room temperature
  Twenty years after the technique was developed, scientists at KU Leuven and Stanford University have unravelled the mechanism behind the direct conversion process of natural gas into methanol at ro...
• Insights into the fundamental coupling between collective and single-particle structures in ¹³³Sb
  Nuclear reactions are among the most important processes that drive our Universe. In our Sun nuclear fusion provides the energy for the sun to radiate. In more violent cosmic events neutron capture...
• Duran Group to acquire Kimble Chase Life Science & Research Products, LLC
  Duran Group ("Duran"), a portfolio company of funds advised by OEP Capital Advisors, L.P., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kimble Chase Life Science & Res...
• Neutron crystallography aids in drug design
  Neutron crystallography is an important complementary technique to X-ray crystallography since it provides details of the hydrogen atom and proton positions in biological molecules. Furthermore, as...
• Scientists model a crucial component of cell division
  During the process of cell division, chromosomes must be distributed equally between the two emerging daughter cells. One copy of each chromosome is created and remains glued to the original until ...
• Better treatment of food allergies
  Food allergies have been on the increase for years. There is currently only one solution for patients: avoid allergy-triggering products. Fraunhofer researchers are making an important contribution...
• Taking crystallography into a new time dimension
  "Now we have the right people, in the right place, with the right technology!" exclaims EMBL group leader Thomas Schneider, who coordinates activities at the EMBL crystallography beamlines on DESY'...
• Nanotechnology Supports Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
  Changes in the genetic make-up of tissue samples can be detected quickly and easily using a new method based on nanotechnology. This report researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, the Uni...
• Particle mass spectrometry in the West African atmosphere
  Within the framework of the EU project DACCIWA (Dynamic-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa), scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, among others, are analyz...
• Low-cost and defect-free graphene
  Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists at FAU have now succeed...
• A patent for oxidised fat
  It is a hotly debated, highly researched subject that has taken on the semblance of a religious war: what are good and what are bad fats? But research from ETH Professor Manfred Kopf's group publis...
• New procedure for detecting silver nanoparticles in water bodies
  For a number of years now, an increasing number of synthetic nanoparticles have been manufactured and incorporated into various products, such as cosmetics. For the first time, a research project a...
• Exploring heavy fermions from macroscopic to microscopic length scales
  Strong electronic correlations in solids may result in fascinating phenomena like unconventional superconductivity and quantum criticality in heavy fermion metals. The latter provide a particularly...