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• New molecular hybrid material for electrocatalytic water oxidation at neutral pH
  The group of Prof. Antoni Llobet has published on the Advanced Materials journal the first example of a molecular water oxidation catalysts based on first row transition metal complex anchored on a...
• Hydrogen research: million in funding for the search for better catalysts
  atalysts should be efficient and durable. To find them, four research teams are systematically working together on new concepts. They are being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with 10...
• The Microbiome of Fruit and Vegetables Positively Influences Diversity in the Gut
  In a meta-study, a research team from the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at TU Graz has provided evidence that the consumption of fruit and vegetables contributes positively to bacterial ...
• Reimagining smartphones: Modular mobile devices against the flood of electronic waste
  One cannot imagine modern life without smartphones. These small electronic helpers make our lives easier and better. But they also do real ecological damage. How can the production and use of smart...
• Underestimated diversity of toxins from cyanobacteria
  The guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) list only four substances produced by cyanobacteria. This is a small fraction of all the metabolites that can have ecotoxicological effects suc...
• Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers
  The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releas...
• Bacteria pave the way for paint that produces oxygen whilst capturing carbon
  An innovative paint that contains oxygen-producing bacteria capable of capturing carbon dioxide has been created by scientists from the University of Surrey. Researchers suggest this paint, known a...
• The mechanism that helps thehospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii to survive
  A research team led by Beate Averhoff and Volker Müller of Goethe University Frankfurt has discovered the mechanism that explains why the pathogen is difficult to eradicate in hospitals and why inf...
• New recipe for efficient, environmentally friendly battery recycling
  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from spent electric car batteries. The method allows recovery of 100 per cent ...
• Tailored electron pulses for improved electron microscopy
  Electron microscopes provide unique vistas of nanoscale structures from biology to materials research. However, their resolution is limited, among other things, by the mutual repulsion of the elect...
• Environmentally friendly non-stick coating replaces PFAS on everyday products
  Whether it is pans, cutlery or packaging, per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) have been used for coating in a wide variety of everyday products and processes for many years. Due to known risk...
• Unlock the secrets of nitrogen's solid phase
  In a ground-breaking study led by the University of Bayreuth researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the University of Linköping, Sweden, the mysteri...
• Microalgae: numerous advantages for the environment
  Everyone is talking about proteins. A large swathe of humanity is still placing its bets on animal sources, be it meat, fish, or dairy products - with negative repercussions for the environment and...
• Eppendorf Award 2024: Call for Entries
  The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, endowed with 20,000 EUR, is granted annually to an early career scientist in Europe for outstanding contributions to biomedical research. It ha...
• Why does it get hot when you rub things together?
  Friction, an everyday phenomenon, has perplexed scientists for centuries. Though extensively researched, our understanding remains fragmented, primarily due to the multifaceted interactions that sp...
• Study warning against the unknown long-term consequences of microplastic particles in soil
  Plastic is everywhere in the environment, and while earlier research efforts dealt predominantly with the ocean and aquatic systems, more recently the soil has increasingly come into focus, especia...
• Textile analysis using a smartphone, AI and infrared spectroscopy
  Researchers at Fraunhofer have developed an ultra-compact near-infrared spectrometer suitable for recognizing and analyzing textiles. Mixed fabrics can also be reliably identified through the combi...
• Capturing CO₂ with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry
  Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide, into valua...
• New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
  Life on a faraway planet - if it's out there - might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe's pantry, and only so many ways to mix the...
• Looking to insects to stabilize the surfaces of materials
  Several insects use a trick to dive into water without getting wet: tiny structures on their surface trap a thin film of air that protects the animals. Together with an international team of resear...
• Carbon from forest waste can be used for future energy storage
  Researchers found how to convert cost free forest waste, like pine cones, into carbon materials useful for energy storage. The method allows for easy and environmentally friendly dispersion of carb...
• Novel approach towards nanomaterials
  Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg have successfully developed nanomaterials using a so-called bottom-up approach. ...