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• Precision antibacterials - RNA-based antibiotics
  Similar to the vaccines against the coronavirus, RNA-based antibiotics could significantly improve modern medicine. Research teams from Würzburg have investigated the prerequisites that such antibi...
• More efficient next-generation solar panels could soon be ready for mass production
  The Surrey team found that fusing perovskite materials with an element called Ferrocene dramatically increases the efficiency of perovskite-based solar panels. The team found that this focus on the...
• Filming electrons at work
  New, patented method for time-resolved acquisition of dynamic processes based on switching of interference patterns. Physicists at TU Berlin's Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics have developed ...
• High-resolution microscopes for education and science
  This year's Leibniz Start-up Prize goes to a team of scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT). With their business idea of a modular optical construction kit, hi...
• Optimized drug candidate against multi-resistant bacteria and parasites
  The development of new active substances against pathogenic bacteria, parasites, fungi and viruses is gaining importance, as established antiinfectives are becoming increasingly ineffective due to ...
• All-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy
  An international team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, University College London and ELI-ALPS in Szeged, Hungary, has demonstrated attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy...
• Catalyst from hot water
  The production of chemical substances normally requires environmentally harmful solvents. After the research group of Miriam Unterlass, professor of solid state chemistry at the University of Konst...
• Near infrared spectral analysis for mobile applications
  Anyone who has ever ruined a cake knows that the correct identification of visually similar substances such as sugar and salt has great significance in food preparation. However, complex composi...
• New multi-component reaction: complex molecular structures in one step
  A more sustainable use of chemical resources is part of the United Nations' Agenda 2030. Synthetic chemists are therefore working to design and carry out efficient syntheses. Within the synthetic o...
• The carbon footprint of artificial intelligence
  For three decades now, carbon emissions from cars have been a political and social issue; there are reporting obligations for manufacturers, government regulation, and much accompanying research. ...
• Increasing methane yield from biogas plants
  Biogas plants produce methane along with more than 40 percent CO₂ which has been released into the atmosphere in conventional biogas plants. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengin...
• On the road to the super-battery - insights into lithium storage batteries
  A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has taken an in-depth look at the internal workings of batteries during charging and discharging. Their findings may help optimize ch...
• Mucus molecules can thwart fungal infection
  Candida albicans is a yeast that colonizes the mucosal surfaces of most healthy humans. Under certain conditions, it can switch to a harmful form and cause infection. Researchers have now identifie...
• A new regulatory molecule in mitochondria opens a new research field
  Scientists at the University of Gothenburg and Karolinska Institute have identified a particular molecule that regulates the expression of mitochondrial genes in human cells. Their study is publish...
• Nano-sensor detects pesticides on fruit in minutes
  Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a tiny sensor for detecting pesticides on fruit in just a few minutes. The technique, described as a proof-of-concept in a paper in the...
• Magnetic trapping of rare-earth ions may lead to a handy technology for their separation
  Some raw materials are considered critical by the European Commission. These include many representatives from the rare-earth elements group, for which supply bottlenecks are imminent and no simple...
• A newly developed analysis method for plastic particles and fibers
  Samples from the tropical Indian Ocean were investigated by researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon using a new method for extraction and identification of microplastic particles from water sam...
• Nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier may be able to deliver chemotherapy drugs
  There are currently few good treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer with a high fatality rate. One reason that the disease is so difficult to treat is that most chem...
• Gold nanoparticles are arranged by custom DNA molecules to produce colours
  Folk belief says there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but a new technology is turning that idea on its head - using particles of gold to make colours. With further work, the method deve...
• Novel sensors enable precise measurement of dopamine
  Carbon nanotubes glow brighter in the presence of neurotransmitters. This facilitates the easy and accurate measurement of signals between nerve cells. Dopamine is an important signalling molecu...
• Nanoparticles that mimic plant pigment to deliver better solar panels
  A team of engineers and biologists from the University of Surrey have synthesised nanoparticles that mimic what chlorophyll does in nature - absorb light and convert it to usable energy with high e...
• Light instead of electricity: a new Kknd of "Green Hydrogen"
  Hydrogen could be an important part of our future energy supply: It can be stored, transported and burned as needed. However, most of the hydrogen available today is a by-product of natural gas pro...