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- Every moment of ultrafast chemical bonding now captured on film
A team of South Korean researchers led by Professor Hyotcherl Ihee from the Department of Chemistry at KAIST reported the direct observation of the birthing moment of chemical bonds by tracking rea... - Spider silk made by photosynthetic bacteria
Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads called draglines that are made from silk proteins. Although they can be used to manufacture a number of useful materials, getting enough of ... - Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without ... - Using the Tokyo Skytree to test Einstein's theory of general relativity
In another verification of the validity of Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and Cluster for Pioneering... - A friendlier way to deal with nitrate pollution
Learning from nature, scientists from the Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan and the Korean Basic Science Institute (KBSI) have found a catalyst that efficiently transforms nitrate in... - Single-molecule resonance Raman effect in a plasmonic nanocavity
Scientists at RIKEN have been able to detect vibrations of a single molecule, allowing them to produce different maps of the molecule for different vibrations. This technique is promising for probi... - Temperature-responsive polymer points the way to sustainable plastics
A polymer that can be broken down into its molecular building blocks, which can then be recombined by either heating or cooling-but by different mechanisms in each case-has been developed by RIKEN ... - Visualization of the stepwise on-surface reaction of aromatic organic molecules
By observing individual atoms as they rearrange themselves step by step, chemists at RIKEN have cast new light on the route by which halogenated aromatic molecules join together on a silver surface...
- How ions enable spiders to spin spider silk
The role ions play in the production of spider silk has been revealed by an all-RIKEN team. This finding will help researchers in their long-term goal of producing artificial spider silk. Spide... - Doubling down on boron to make complex organic molecules
A user-friendly method to form sought-after diborylalkenes by attaching boron groups to organic molecules has been developed by an all-RIKEN team1. Diborylalkenes are stepping stones to many valuab... - Historical gathering: International meeting of the discoverers of chemical elements
As part of the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019, the Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Heavy Elements (TAN) taking place in Wilhelmshaven, Germany from the 25th to the 30th of... - Nuclear "magic numbers" collapse beyond the doubly magic Nickel 78
Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research in Japan and an international collaboration network with a strong participation of scientists from Technische Universität Dar... - New type of self-healing material
Materials that can self-heal have become a popular area of research during the last decade, and a variety of materials have been developed. However, most of the self-healing materials reported to d... - Scientists observe a new form of strange matter
In a discovery that could provide new insights into the origin of mass in the universe following the Big Bang, scientists from the international J-PARC E15 Collaboration, led by researchers from th...
- Atomic structure reveals how cells translate environmental signals
In all living cells, chemical signals are harnessed for intracellular communication. The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) is one such signal that binds to the IP3 receptor (IP3R) to release calci...
- IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118
On 28 November 2016, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the name and symbols for four elements: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og... - Using terahertz laser, scientists change the macromolecular conformation of a polymer
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have, for the first time, successfully used a terahertz laser to induce permanent changes in the conformation of a polymer, giving it a... - 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, ... - Spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy used to determine the g-factor
Topological insulators are materials that have an electronically insulating interior and an electronically conductive exterior. Much effort has gone into finding and researching the properties of t... - 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... - Observing structural changes in complex molecules as if watching a film
Chemistry is now ready for the movies: an international team which includes researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg has used a type of molecula... - New polymer solar cell minimizes loss of photon energy
As the world increasingly looks to alternative sources of energy, inexpensive and environmentally friendly polymer-based solar cells have attracted significant attention, but they still do not matc...
- Manipulating wrinkles could lead to graphene semiconductors
Graphene has generally been described as a two-dimensional structure - a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a regular structure - but the reality is not so simple. In reality, graphene can fo... - Single Cell Mass Spectrometry allows getting a picture of molecules
Understanding exactly what is taking place inside a single cell is no easy task. For DNA, amplification techniques are available to make the task possible, but for other substances such as proteins...
- Chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom established for the first time
An international collaboration led by research groups from Mainz and Darmstadt has achieved the synthesis of a new class of chemical compounds for superheavy elements at the RIKEN Nishina Center fo...