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An experimental fingerprint detection approach can identify traces of cocaine on human skin, even after someone has washed their hands - and the test is also smart enough to tell whether an individ... - Mapping the microscopic behaviour of conjugated polymers
Conjugated polymers have attracted broad academic and industrial interest over recent years for their potential use in a range of applications. Made up of a complex configuration of carbon and hydr... - Single atom as measuring probe uses quantum information for the first time
Sensors collect certain parameters such as temperature and air pressure in their proximity. Physicists from Kaiserslautern and a colleague from Hanover have succeeded for the first time in using a ... - How quickly are electrons transferred?
A team of researchers at FAU has developed a method which can be used to reliably measure the speed of electron transfer between two materials. This could lead to the development of innovative elec... - Avoiding bubble trouble in gas evolving electrodes
Bubbles are known to influence energy and mass transfer in gas evolving electrodes. Many electrochemical reactions produce gas that can lead to bubbles forming at the reaction site. Those bubbles c... - Closely spaced hydrogen atoms could facilitate superconductivity in ambient conditions
An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades - a feature that could possibly f... - Palladium-based intermetallic electride improves the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed an electride material composed of yttrium and palladium (Y3Pd2) as a catalyst for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions. These rea... - Waves of ice inside a droplet
A droplet falling on a surface that is considerably supercooled, will freeze in a way that wasn't ever observed before. Instead of the well-known growth of crystals, a colder surface results in mov... - A new approach to optical microscopy
For a half a millennium, people have tried to enhance human vision by technical means. While the human eye is capable of recognizing features over a wide range of size, it reaches its limits when p... - Cyanobacteria produce methane
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are among the most common organisms on Earth and are notorious for forming toxins. A recent study has now shown for the first time that these bacteria... - Determining the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly and accurately
Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must first determine their structure and stereochemistry. This can be a major challenge, particu... - Plants absorb lead from perovskite solar cells more than expected
Lead from metal-organic perovskite compounds can be absorbed particularly easily by plants. The bioavailability is significantly higher than that of lead from inorganic compounds as found in batter... - Watching complex molecules at work
A new method of infrared spectroscopy developed at BESSY II makes single-measurement observation and analysis of very fast as well as irreversible reaction mechanisms in molecules feasible for the ... - Solid-state nanopore fabrication by automated controlled breakdown
A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so dive... - A more sustainable photochemistry
Sustainable chemical applications need to be able to employ renewable energy sources, renewable raw materials, and Earth-abundant elements. However, to date many techniques have only been possible ... - Fluor Pilot Plant goes digital
The new app enables the user to learn the whole chemical engineering process by operating a simulated plant environment which matches the real Fluor Pilot Plant at Surrey. On the app, users are abl... - Antibacterial liquid metals to fight drug-resistant superbugs
Researchers have used liquid metals to develop new bacteria-destroying technology that could be the answer to the deadly problem of antibiotic resistance. The technology uses nano-sized particles o... - The world's first monolayer amorphous film
Researchers from NUS have synthesised the world's first one-atom-thick amorphous material. Previously thought to be impossible, the discovery of monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) could finally settl... - A new form of glass through molecular entanglement
Physicists at the University of Vienna in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have discovered a new type of glass formed by long, cyclic molecules. The scientists succe... - Ultrafast chemistry in water caused by ionising radiation observed for the first time
An international research team jointly led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany's Deutsches... - Lossless transmission of signals
New experiments with magnetically doped topological insulators at BESSY II have revealed possible ways of lossless signal transmission that involve a surprising self-organisation phenomenon. In the... - How bacteria control their cell cycle
Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with the replication of their genetic material. In an interdisciplinary study they explain wh...
- Looking inside 3D nanostructures without leaving a trace
Discovering what is inside a three-dimensional (3D) nanostructure, is no longer a matter of cutting slices, thus breaking it up and destroying its functionality. Scientists from the University of T... - Simple method for removing glyphosate from water
Glyphosate is not only one of the most widely-used herbicides in the world, but also one of the most controversial chemical compounds, as it is suspected of being carcinogenic. In a study published... - Extreme conditions experiments sharpen view of our planet's interior
Simulating the conditions 2700 kilometres deep underground, scientists have studied an important transformation of the most abundant mineral on Earth, bridgmanite. The results from the Extreme Cond...