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Chemists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have made a decisive step towards more cost-efficient regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal-air batteries. They developed a new type of catalyst on ... - More efficient electrochemical processes through novel nanofibers
When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery? Chemists at the NIM Cluster at LMU and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, h... - Nano-adapters: stimulus for single-molecule DNA sequencing
Scientists at the Braunschweig University of Technology have developed tiny adapters that allow the coupling of molecules to nanostructures and their precise positioning on the scale of a millionth... - High-Precision Nanosensors: 10 Year old Theoretical Proposal Implemented
Scientists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel were able to show that specifically modified diamonds could work as high precision nanosensors. The researchers used single ... - New insights into biomolecular transport processes
Biological membranes are like a guarded border. They separate the cell from the environment and at the same time control the import and export of molecules. The nuclear membrane can be crossed via ... - Award for characterizing mechanical and chemical interactions
Samet Varol has been awarded with the Gold prize in the "Young Scientist Lecture Competition Award" for his lecture about the relation between chemical and mechanical properties of nanocomposites a... - A new way to assemble individual molecules could revolutionize the creation of novel materials
This work focuses on the interactions between molecules and in particular on "amphiphilic" molecules, which contain two distinct parts to them. Household detergent is a good example of a product th... - Sucessful determination of the state of a quantum mechanical system
Processes on the atomic scale can only be described accurately by using the laws of quantum mechanics. Physicists at the University of Würzburg have now succeeded for the first time to completely d... - Observing the random diffusion of missing atoms in graphene
Imperfections in the regular atomic arrangements in crystals determine many of the properties of a material, and their diffusion is behind many microstructural changes in solids. However, imaging n... - Nanodiamonds identified as potent bactericidal agent
Exhibiting a diameter of 5 nanometers, nanodiamonds are 200-times smaller than a bacterium. Nanodiamonds are produced by the explosion of carbon-containing compounds in high-pressure storage tanks.... - Bacteria can reshape their DNA to survive dehydration
The research shows that bacterial DNA can change from the regular double helix - known as B-DNA, to the more compact A-DNA form, when faced with hostile conditions such as dehydration. Crucially... - First 3D Model of a Synapse
A glance into a new world for neuroscience: research team from Göttingen led by Prof. Dr. Silvio O. Rizzoli present the first scientifically accurate 3D model of a synapse. This effort has been mad... - A new way to analyse delicate biomolecules
Using DESY's synchrotron light source PETRA III, scientists have pioneered a new way to analyse delicate biomolecules. The novel approach, borrowed from a new class of high-intensity X-ray sources ... - X-ray pulses on demand from Electron Storage Rings
HZB physicists recently devised a new method to pick single x-ray pulses out of the pulse trains usually emitted from synchrotron radiation facilities. The technique is very useful to support studi... - Nano World: Where towers construct themselves
Imagine a tower builds itself into the desired structure only by choosing the appropriate bricks. Absurd - and however, in the nano world this is reality: There an unordered crowd of components can... - Immunologists discover immune system precursor cells that fight infection
The innate immune system recognizes infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria. A group of lymphocytes known as "innate lymphoid cells" or ILCs plays a central role in the defense of the human ... - Diverging thermal conductivity
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research show unlimited heat conduction in graphene. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the Natio... - Neutron beams reveal how antibodies cluster in solution
Results from neutron spin-echo analysis at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and the National Center of Neutron Research (NCNR) in the United States are an important advance towards enabling subcuta... - Computational chemistry as atomistic magnifying glass for biological systems
Studying biological macromolecules such as proteins in their entirety on the atomistic level is a huge experimental challenge. Prof. Dr. Christine Peter from the University of Konstanz is therefore... - MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award 2014 for development of new tool for optical imaging
Innovation in Materials Characterization Award honors an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under out... - Important mechanism of protein folding elucidated
Proteins are responsible for nearly every essential process of life. Their form and structure (or their "fold") are of crucial importance for their functionality. Scientists at the Max Planck Insti... - Light waves allow preferred bond breaking in symmetric molecules
An international team of scientists discovered a new quantum control mechanism to selectively shake and break C-H bonds in symmetric hydrocarbon molecules with the waveform of femtosecond laser pul... - Graphene may cause negative environmental impacts if spilled
Graphen, material that could change electronics industry, is shown to be very mobile in water and likely to cause negative environmental impacts if spilledIn a first-of-its-kind study of how a mate... - Protein identified as important trigger of antiviral response
Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the outside, by viruses for example. They do this by using different mechanism... - Nanocellulose sponges to combat oil pollution
A new, absorbable material from Empa wood research could be of assistance in future oil spill accidents: a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge. The light material absorbs the oil spill, remain...