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• New test methods for plastic and rubber product safety
  JRC scientists have developed new methods to measure the content and migration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from rubber and plastic items. PAHs are a group of hazardous compounds -...
• Graphene laminated pipes could reduce corrosion in the oil and gas industry
  Researchers at The University of Manchester and TWI have discovered ways of using graphene to prolong the lifetime of pipes used in the oil and gas industry. Published in Advanced Materials Inte...
• Unlock the molecular secrets to Polyisobutylene
  Polyisobutylene (PIB) is a workhorse polymer that is found in a multitude of products, ranging from chewing gum, to tires, to engine oil and gasoline additives. Although commercially produced in la...
• Breakthrough on road to creating a rechargeable lithium-oxygen battery
  Chemists from the University of Waterloo have successfully resolved two of the most challenging issues surrounding lithium-oxygen batteries, and in the process created a working battery with near 1...
• Nanoscale probes for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
  In a pioneering study, an LMU team led by Ralf Jungmann has demonstrated that the use of chemically-modified DNA aptamers as protein markers allows one to enhance the power of super-resolution fluo...
• Nanoscale heat transport under the microscope
  A team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Potsdam has investigated heat transport in a model system comprising nanometre-thin metallic and magnetic layers....
• New EU environmental standards for waste treatment
  New emissions and efficiency standards will help national authorities to lower the environmental impact of the largest waste treatment installations in the EU, dealing with both hazardous and non-h...
• Molecular switch detects metals in the environment
  An international team, led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has designed a family of molecules capable of binding to metal ions present in its environment and prov...
• 3D Inks that Can Be Erased Selectively
  3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to microelectronics to optical metamaterials. Researchers of Karlsruhe...
• Nanoscale solution to 'produced water' problem
  Oil and water tend to separate, but they mix well enough to form stable oil-in-water emulsions in produced water from oil reservoirs to become a problem. Rice University scientists have developed a...
• Amazing synthesis method for high-tech dyes
  Dyes that are also of great interest for organic electronics have recently been prepared and crystallised at TU Wien. All that is required is just water, albeit under highly unusual conditions. ...
• Special polymer scaffold for threedimensional cell cultures
  For the replacement of animal testing with alternatives in medical rsearch, complex microtissues need to be cultivated. Researchers from Empa have developed a special polymer scaffold for threedime...
• Liquid battery could lead to flexible energy storage
  A new type of energy storage system could revolutionise energy storage and drop the charging time of electric cars from hours to seconds. In a new paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry...
• Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells enables efficiency improvements
  In perovskite solar cells, charge carriers are mainly lost through recombination occurring at interface defect sites. In contrast, recombination at defect sites within the perovskite layer does not...
• Biodegradable, paper-based biobatteries
  The batteries of the future may be made out of paper. Researchers at Binghamton University, State University at New York have created a biodegradable, paper-based battery that is more efficient tha...
• World record: Fastest 3D tomographic images at BESSY II
  An HZB team has developed an ingenious precision rotary table at the EDDI beamline at BESSY II and combined it with particularly fast optics. This enabled them to document the formation of pores in...
• Understanding soil through its microbiome
  Soil is full of life, essential for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To better understand how it functions, an international research team led by EMBL and the University of Tartu (Estonia) cond...
• New and better analytical method for cell samples
  Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a novel method which increases more than tenfold the number of proteins that can be visualized per sample, making it possible to generate a co...
• Visualizing chemical reactions on bimetal surfaces
  Catalysts are the result of many chemists searching to unravel the beauty of molecules and the mystery of chemical reactions. Professor Jeong Young Park, whose research focuses on catalytic chemica...
• On the pathway to novel hydrogen storage materials
  Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and their European partners have developed a new chemical system for storing solid hydrogen. The special combination of hydrides allows overcoming som...
• Insight into catalysis through novel study of X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  An international team has made a breakthrough at BESSY II. For the first time, they succeeded in investigating electronic states of a transition metal in detail and drawing reliable conclusions on ...
• Tapping into a new reservoir of antibiotics
  A team of ETH researchers led by Julia Vorholt and Jörn Piel have discovered new antibiotic substances in bacteria that colonise the leaf surfaces of a local wild plant. A wide variety of differ...
• Diatom ooze sediments are a large marine mercury sink
  Mercury has been released by humans by multiple processes such as gold and silver mining and emissions to the atmosphere by coal burning, to name the most important ones. These processes have cause...