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Cigarette filters are the world's most common form of litter. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg can now show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic ... - Quantum computer applied to chemistry for the first time
There are high expectations that quantum computers may deliver revolutionary new possibilities for simulating chemical processes. This could have a major impact on everything from the development o... - A previously unknown form of hydrogel formation has been elucidated
Hydrogels? Many people use these substances without knowing it. As superabsorbents in nappies, for example, hydrogels absorb a lot of liquid. In the process, the initially dry material becomes Jell... - Artificial photosynthesis for environmentally friendly food production
Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical University ... - New imaging technique could shed light on individual molecules
An international research team has succeeded for the first time in using X-rays for an imaging technique that exploits a particular quantum property of light. The research team, led by Henry Chapma... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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,... - Detecting pollutants at ultra-trace levels
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (or Spectroscopy), known as SERS, is an advanced analysis method that extends the range of Raman applications to trace analysis such as part per million level dete... - Sweets change our brain
Chocolate bars, crisps and fries - why can't we just ignore them in the supermarket? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, in collaboration with Yale Universit... - Photosynthesis 'hack' could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy
Researchers have 'hacked' the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a fi... - EMBO Press to be fully Open Access
From 2024 on, all papers published in The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports and the source data in all European Molecular Biology Organization's (EMBO) Press journals will be freely accessible with CC-... - windCORES: new infrastructure with data centres in wind farms
High-performance computing, or HPC, has become a key method in many scientific areas, including pharmaceutical and climate research. However, data centres with energy-intensive supercomputers produ... - How CO2 affects our oceans
The behavior of microorganisms is crucial to understand the effects of carbon dioxide input in the oceans. Researchers at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany, in collaboration with colleagues... - How nanoplastics can influence metabolism
PET, the plastic used to make bottles, for example, is ubiquitous in our natural environment. In a joint study, scientists from Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Researc...