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Be it in phyics, metallurgy, gemology or engineering, the applications of crystals are very broad. A research team including Christos Likos and Lorenzo Rovigatti from the Faculty of Physics of the ... - New approach for a Hydrogen production process suited for industrial applications
Hydrogen is considered as a potential energy carrier of the future. However, its mass production remains problematic. Bochum-based researchers have found a new approach for a process suited for ind... - The useful biological role of acrolein
Scientists from RIKEN in Japan have discovered that acrolein-a toxic substance produced in cells during times of oxidative stress-in fact may play a role in preventing the process of fibrillation, ... - New tool allows scientists to visualize 'Nanoscale' processes
Scienion, a leading provider of ultra-low volume precision liquid handling systems, and University of California San Diego, today announced that chemists at UC San Diego and automation experts at S... - A new superconductor prepared by an electrochemical route
Iron-based superconducors were discovered a few years ago as the compound family with the second highest transition temperature besides the cuprate high temperature superconductors. They are promis... - Van der Waals Forces of individual atoms measured for the first time
Physicists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this, the... - Using neutron crystallography to determine the structures of HIV-1 protease/drug complexes
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become one of the world's most serious health and development challenges. Currently, there are approximately 36.9 million people living with HIV and tens of mil... - X-ray study reveals ultrafast dynamics of photoactive yellow protein
Using a high-speed X-ray camera, an international team of scientist including researchers from DESY has revealed the ultrafast response of a biosensor to light. The study, published in the US journ... - Helmholtz Award for work in applied protein analysis and in the measurement of binding energies in helium molecules
In principle, helium doesn't like combining with its ilk at all. Yet, occasionally, it does exactly this, albeit with extremely slight binding energies. Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt ha... - Mechanism for radiation damage identified
What exactly are the processes when x-ray photons damage biomolecules with a metal centre? This question has been investigated by a team of scientists at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of Hei... - Folding molecules into screw-shaped structures
Artificial molecules are like sheets of paper. Chemists can fold them into specific shapes. Transferring the shape of one molecule to another, however, poses a significant challenge. An internat... - Lotus effect for organic liquids
Materials scientists at FAU have developed a process that allows self-cleaning properties to be applied to ceramic surfaces that also work for organic liquids such as oils and alcohol. We are a... - Computational method to visualize molecular dynamics
Let's say you're trying to pinpoint when a particular past event occurred, but your best possible estimate puts it only within a span of 10,000 years. Now imagine if something could shrink that win... - First X-ray laser simulation suite explores single-particle imaging
Imagine taking an atomic-resolution X-ray picture of any individual biomolecule, without growing crystals, which can be extremely time-consuming or, in some cases, even impossible. Called single-pa... - Optogenetics reveals new insights into circuits of the brain
Scientists have largely been in the dark with regard to how individual circuits operate in the highly branched networks of the brain. Mapping these networks is a complicated process, requiring prec... - Researchers analyse chemical composition of dust from beyond the solar system
A Heidelberg-designed dust detector on the Cassini space probe - known as the cosmic dust analyser (CDA) - has identified several extremely rare and minuscule particles of interstellar dust from ou... - High pressure reduces adsorption capacity of metal-organic frameworks
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can store gases such as methane in their surface interstices, or pores. Now teams from the Technische Universität Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have pre... - Growing skin in the lab
Using reprogrammed iPS cells, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have, along with collaborators from Tokyo University of Science and other Japanese institutio... - Direct proof of stable ultra-long 1D carbon chains as a route to carbyne
Elemental carbon appears in many different forms, including diamond and graphite. Their unique structural, electrical and optical properties have a broad range of potential applications in composit... - New microscope designed to reveal the function of individual genes in the brain
Changes in gene activity are fundamental to many neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the nature of the genes affected, the time and place in which these changes occur, or the impact of these chang... - How to make metal alloys that stand up to hydrogen
High-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor. But even the best alloys degrade over time, victims of a reactor'... - Next-generation Holographic Microscope for 3D Live Cell Imaging
Professor YongKeun Park of the Physics Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and his research team have developed a powerful method for 3D imaging of live cel... - Sustainable Processing of Rare Earths
Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) are developing a new strategy for processing the Vietnamese "Nam Xe" rare earth ore deposits in an environmentally frie... - Hydride-ion conduction makes its first appearance
Japanese scientists demonstrate the first electrochemical reaction based on hydride ions in an oxide-based solid-state cell for potential next-generation batteries. Ionic transport has been stud... - New insights into the nature and function of hydrogen-oxidizing enzymes
Hydrogenases are enzymes that split molecular hydrogen into protons and electron, which are conversely used to form hydrogen. Whether or not a particular hydrogenase is oxygen-tolerant is determine...