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• Study leads to lowering of the EU environmental limit for the painkiller ibuprofen
  A study by researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Athens has found that the toxicity of chemicals in lakes and rivers may vary by several orders of magnitude depending on the water's aci...
• Biobased microgels with therapeutic function
  Scientists from DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Zhejiang University of Technology and Donghua University have developed biodegradable microgels loaded with antibiotics. The resul...
• Nitrosamines in food raise a health concern
  Consumer exposure to nitrosamines, compounds that can form in food during its preparation and processing, raises a health concern. This is the finding of EFSA's assessment on the public health risk...
• Genetically encoded nano-barcodes make invisible processes visible
  How do the nerve cells in our brain communicate with each other? What processes take place when T cells render cancer cells harmless? Details of the mechanisms at the cellular level remain hidden f...
• How electricity can heal wounds three times as fast
  Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly - in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers...
• Unusual temperature dependence of water sorption in semicrystalline hydrogels
  The vast majority of absorbent materials will lose their ability to retain water as temperatures rise. This is why our skin starts to sweat and why plants dry out in the heat. Even materials that a...
• Recovery of battery metals - Project-Launch of Metallico
  How can battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel be recycled in a sustainable way? This question is in the focus of the new EU project METALLICO, in which DECHEMA is als...
• Long searched chemical compound prepared for the first time
  High-profile publication in the journal Nature Chemistry: Prof. Dr. Johannes Teichert and his team from Chemnitz University of Technology successfully show the existence of the neutral homoaromatic...
• Increasing efficiency of enzyme that breaks down PET plastic
  One of the most widely used plastics in the world is polyethylene terephthalate, or PET for short. It is everywhere in our daily lives in the form of reusable PET drinks bottles. At the end of the ...
• Making energy-saving greener - sustainable batteries for the future
  Batteries are indispensable for global efforts to reduce fossil fuel use. However, challenges remain: their production requires a lot of energy, the materials used are rare, and batteries are diffi...
• Deep look inside biomolecule's structure for better vaccines against multidrug resistant germs
  Bacteria which are resistant to all conventional antibiotics cause more than a million deaths each year. Consequently, researchers around the world are searching for new therapeutic approaches to c...
• From greenhouse gas to value-added product
  Thinking of CO₂, terms like climate-damaging or waste product probably quickly come to mind. While CO₂ has been that for a long time - a pure waste product - more and more processes are being devel...
• Major storage capacity in water-based batteries
  Researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a 1,000% difference in the storage capacity of metal-free, water-based battery electrodes. These batteries are different from lithium-ion batteri...
• New study proves significant reduction of the harmful gases ammonia and methane
  Ammonia released into the environment is a major problem. Agriculture is considered the most prolific polluter - it is responsible for 95 percent of these emissions in Germany. The colorless, acrid...
• Study on legacy industrial contamination in the arctic permafrost
  A previously underestimated risk lurks in the frozen soil of the Arctic. When the ground thaws and becomes unstable in response to climate change, it can lead to the collapse of industrial infrastr...
• New method to characterize nanomaterials
  Researchers from Paderborn University, the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM),Italy's national metrology institute, the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Physikalisch-Technische ...
• Using ammonia for sustainable iron- and steelmaking
  When it comes to sustainability and green steel, everybody talks about hydrogen. But current means of storing and transporting hydrogen request high pressures and low temperatures, which are both e...
• Creating carbon materials for energy storage device from brewery waste
  Modern energy storage systems are an important building block for a climate-friendly future. "Modern" means not only that their performance meets the demands of a high-tech society, but also that t...
• Why nickelates are superconducting
  Superconductors can transmit electric current without loss over any distance and play an important role in quantum computers and medical imaging. A new promising materials class are the nickelates,...