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• Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy
  Non-centrosymmetry is a fascinating topic because crystalline materials with chiral crystal structures exist in two enantiomorphic forms i.e. with different absolute structures which are in many re...
• Coordination Chemistry and Alzheimer's Disease
  It has become evident recently that the interactions between copper and amyloid-β neurotoxically impact the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. KAIST researchers have reported a new strateg...
• Activating palladium catalysis by light
  In the production of compounds, chemists have the fundamental goal of finding strategies that are most selective and avoid waste products. Breakthroughs in this area serve, among other things, to d...
• Printing complex cellulose-based objects
  Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have set a new world record: they 3D printed complex objects with higher cellulose content...
• High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals
  Electrical and chemical signals flash through our brains constantly as we move through the world, but it would take a high-speed camera and a window into the brain to capture their fleeting paths. ...
• Aerogels made from scrap rubber tyres
  A team of NUS researchers has achieved a major technological breakthrough by converting waste rubber tyres into super-light aerogels that have a wide range of applications. This is the first time t...
• New form of cell division driven by protein waves
  The Biological Physics group led by Professor Carsten Beta at the University of Potsdam has, in cooperation with Spanish scientists, discovered a new form of cell division caused by intracellular p...
• Predicting reaction results: Machines learn chemistry
  Everyday life without artificial intelligence is barely conceivable in today's world. Countless applications in areas such as autonomous driving, foreign language translations or medical diagnostic...
• End-of-line hyphenation of chemical names
  Chemical names and in particular systematic chemical names can be so long that, when a manuscript is printed, they have to be hyphenated/divided at the end of a line. Many systematic names already ...
• New process for creating nano materials - one step closer to mass production
  A new process developed at Caltech makes it possible for the first time to manufacture large quantities of materials whose structure is designed at a nanometer scale - the size of DNA's double heli...
• Presence of plastic in a new species in one of the deepest places on earth
  The amphipod - known in informal speech as a "hopper" - was discovered by researchers from Newcastle University in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench between Japan and the Philippines. The resea...
• Temperature-responsive polymer points the way to sustainable plastics
  A polymer that can be broken down into its molecular building blocks, which can then be recombined by either heating or cooling-but by different mechanisms in each case-has been developed by RIKEN ...
• Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium
  Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the civil nuclear industry or as fallout from nuclear weapon tests, the ratio of the two anthropogenic, i.e...
• A new way of making chiral catalysts
  Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered a new way to create one hand of a chiral molecule by using a mechanical bond as a catalyst. Chiral molecules are two molecules that ar...
• Update on nitrosamines in EU medicines
  EU and national authorities are continuing their work to prevent and manage the presence of nitrosamine impurities in EU medicines. Nitrosamines are classified as probable human carcinogens (sub...
• Finding the right methods for measuring microplastics in water
  The JRC launched this week an inter-laboratory comparison study to identify and harmonise methods to measure microplastics in water. There is an emerging concern regarding the impact of microplasti...
• Tracking down the mystery of matter
  Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before. In the process they found out that the elementary particle has a significantl...
• 'Smart water' may aid oil recovery
  Scientists at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering show that microscopic saltwater droplets emulsify crude oil when each has the right composition. Understanding how they combine is import...
• Better data exchange in radiological emergency protection
  The radioactivity in the environment is systematically recorded by the Federal Government and the Federal States in over 50 laboratories as well as using automated measuring systems. In the event o...
• Visualization of the stepwise on-surface reaction of aromatic organic molecules
  By observing individual atoms as they rearrange themselves step by step, chemists at RIKEN have cast new light on the route by which halogenated aromatic molecules join together on a silver surface...
• Determining the molecular structures of proteins using cryo-electron microscopy
  Researchers have used cryo-electron microscopy to elucidate for the first time the structure and function of a very small enzyme embedded in cell membranes. This enzyme builds complex sugar trees t...
• Synthesizing a superatom: opening doors to their use as substitutes for elemental atoms
  Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and ERATO Japan Science and Technology have demonstrated how superatoms of a desired valency, stability, and volume can be synthesized in a ...