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• Optimised method for the analysis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles
  The JRC developed a method based on field-flow fractionation for the detection of nanoparticles in a titanium dioxide material. This method has the potential to be applied for the characterisation ...
• Neutron spectroscopy enables an international tem to unravel quantum entanglement in a dimer of complex molecular qubits
  Molecular nanomagnets are inorganic compounds that consist of a metallic core surrounded by an organic ligand sheath, which acts to isolate each core leading to zero dimensional magnetic units - so...
• Cell-infused gloves and bandages light up when in contact with certain chemicals
  Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new "living material" - a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are genetically programmed to lig...
• Banned chemicals from the 70s found in deepest reaches of the ocean
  A study, led by Newcastle University's Dr Alan Jamieson has uncovered the first evidence that man-made pollutants have now reached the farthest corners of our earth. Sampling amphipods (pictured...
• Producing two-dimensional textiles from monomolecular polymer threads
  Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress in the production of two-dimensional polymer-based materials. To produce cloths from monomolecular threads, the scien...
• Measure coating thickness on nanoparticles
  The JRC, in collaboration with 20 international laboratories, supported a Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) study on the measurement of the shell thickness and chemist...
• Measuring entropy
  A scanning tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes; the entropy of the mo...
• Novel and intuitive operating concept enhances Raman imaging
  WITec, manufacturer of Raman and scanning-probe microscopes, presents a new operating concept with the powerful and intuitive Suite FIVE at Pittcon 2017. Sophisticated features and hands-on control...
• In cell molecular sieve from protein crystal
  Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, RIKEN, and Kyoto Institute of Technology have applied rational crystal design to create protein crystals with extended porous network to accumulate exog...
• Need of guidelines for limits on trace elements in canned vegetables
  The JRC, in its role as European Union Reference Laboratory on Heavy Metals (EURL-HM) organised a proficiency test (PT) for the determination of some heavy metals (trace elements) in canned peas. ...
• "Corrective glass" for mass spectrometry imaging
  The chemical analysis of biological tissues with three-dimensional shapes has been a major problem so far. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now im...
• Comparing toxicity of dusts with and without carbon nanotubes
  The JRC contributed to a groundbreaking study carried out by scientists from various European Research Institutions to understand the impact of carbon nanotubes (CNT) present in dusts on human heal...
• Fast food packaging contains potentially harmful chemicals
  In the most comprehensive analysis to date on the prevalence of highly fluorinated chemicals in fast food packaging in the United States, researchers tested more than 400 samples from 27 fast food ...
• Challenges for simultaneous analysis of masked trichothecene mycotoxins in cereals
  JRC scientists investigated the suitability of immunoaffinity columns for the determination of masked (modified) mycotoxins, a class of food contaminants currently being discussed for EU regulation...
• Background Suppression for Super-resolution Light Microscopy
  Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new fluorescence microscopy method: STEDD (Stimulation Emission Double Depletion) nanoscopy produces images of highest resolu...
• App reveals constituents
  An apple is labeled "organic" but the customer doesn't know if it really hasn't been sprayed or, if the seller's description is to be believed, if a car has never been in an accident. Unverifiable ...
• Synthetic peptides and spectra for proteomics
  Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report on the synthesis of a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides representing essentially all canonical proteins of the human...
• A combined time-resolved neutron scattering and fluorescence study
  AAA+ ATPases are a large family of ubiquitous enzymes with multiple tasks, including the remodelling of the cellular proteome, i.e. the ensemble of proteins in a biological cell. A subfamily, so-ca...
• Deep look into protein structure
  Light microscopy continues to reveal the microscopic world at an ever increasing resolution. Using a new method coined COLD, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlan...
• Bioinspired intelligent material transports micro-objects
  Adhesive mechanisms in the natural world, as used by geckos and other animals when they walk upside down on the ceiling, have many advantages: they are always strongly adhesive - and without any gl...