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Leather is used as a durable and flexible material in many aspects of everyday life including furniture and clothing. Leather substitutes derived from fungi are considered to be an ethical and envi... - Detecting the handedness of a single nanoparticle
Scientists from the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a new spectroscopic-microscope, which can be used to observe a single na... - Grapefruit inspires the creation of the world's first non-cuttable material
In an article published by Nature, the team detail how they were influenced by the tough skin of grapefruit and the Amazonian Arapaima fish to create an artificial material that cannot be cut with ... - Mass of the deuteron corrected
High-precision measurements of the mass of the deuteron, the nucleus of heavy hydrogen, provide new insights into the reliability of fundamental quantities in atomic and nuclear physics. This is re... - Increasing safety of nanomaterials through accurate design
The risks posed by nanomaterials to humans and the environment due to their very small size have not yet been fully clarified. For this reason, there is a need for new technologies that allow the r... - Artificial carbohydrates for sustainable food production?
What alternatives to conventional agriculture exist to produce carbohydrates for food and feed? Scientists at Heidelberg University performed model calculations for artificial sugar production with... - New class of materials for tomorrow's energy storage
Researchers at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) have created a new family of semiconductors, the properties of which were investigated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The researchers ... - The world's first afterglow-magnetic nanoparticles
Researchers at the University of Siegen have developed the world's first nanoparticles that feature both magnetic and afterglow properties. The potential for applications is enormous: For example, ... - Atomistic picture of platinum catalyst degradation
Degradation of platinum, used as a key electrode material in the hydrogen economy, severely shortens the lifetime of electrochemical energy conversion devices, such as fuel cells. For the first tim... - Storing energy in red bricks
Red bricks - some of the world's cheapest and most familiar building materials - can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new... - How do ionic liquids diffuse in nanopores?
Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batt... - Efficient valves for electron spins
Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have developed a new concept that uses the electron spin to switch an electrical current. In addition to fundame... - Programmable synthetic materials
In DNA, information is stored in the sequence of chemical building blocks; in computers, information consists of sequences of zeros and ones. Researchers want to transfer this concept to artificial... - Spintronics: Make non-magnetic materials magnetic
A complex process can modify non-magnetic oxide materials in such a way to make them magnetic. The basis for this new phenomenon is controlled layer-by-layer growth of each material. An internat... - Anode Material for Safe Batteries with a Long Cycle Life
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthan... - Insights into the structure of an enigmatic catalyst
In the past, the catalyst for the production of methanol had eluded all attempts to clarify its surface structure. Now researchers have learned more about its active site. Methanol is one of the... - Mechanism for the formation of blood platelets discovered
A healthy human produces about 100 billion platelets per day, or more than one million platelets per second. Just how the organism manages this enormous task, has now been discovered by physicists ... - Atomic Force Microscopy reveals nanoscale dental erosion from beverages
KAIST researchers used atomic force microscopy to quantitatively evaluate how acidic and sugary drinks affect human tooth enamel at the nanoscale level. This novel approach is useful for measuring ... - Study on protein biosynthesis in bacteria: New perspectives for antibiotics research
Researchers of the University of Bayreuth and the Columbia University in New York reported groundbreaking findings on protein biosynthesis in bacteria in the journal "iScience". The small protein N... - European Atlas of Natural Radiation
The European Atlas of Natural Radiation provides harmonised data on levels of natural radiation across the EU and aims to raise awareness among Europeans of living with natural radioactivity. Th... - Bioinspired strategy for the controlled synthesis of polyenes
They occur in nature, are reactive and play a role in many biological processes: polyenes. It is no wonder that chemists have for a long time been interested in efficiently constructing these compo... - New NMR method enables monitoring of chemical reactions in metal containers
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is employed in a wide range of applications. In chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is in standard use for the purposes of analysis, while in the med... - Electron cryo-microscopy: Using inexpensive technology to produce high-resolution images
Biochemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have used a standard electron cryo-microscope to achieve surprisingly good images that are on par with those taken by far more sophist... - How much fluorine is too much fluorine?
For most of us, our closest encounter with the element fluorine is likely to be our toothpaste or a municipal water supply with added fluoride. But excess fluorine can be a problem. For example... - Genomics reveals secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The discovery in Qumran more than sixty years ago of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls had an immense impact on the historical understanding of Judaism and Christianity. Prof. Oded Rechavi, Ed...