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- New research project analyses pollution of European rivers
A new study analyses river pollution in Europe: In the most extensive study of its kind, international researchers including EDGE member Thilo Hofmann and his team are tracing pharmaceuticals in se...
- Crystalline supermirrors for trace gas detection
In an international cooperation with partners from industry and research, physicists from the University of Vienna, together with Thorlabs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)... - Symbionts sans frontieres: Bacterial partners travel the world
This pandemic year has seen us confined to our homes and restricted from travelling the world. Not so for some microscopic bacteria in the ocean: Throughout the globe, they partner up with clams fr... - Eco-friendly process for synthesizing organic materials for high-performance materials industry
Until now, the production of materials from organic substances was only possible with the use of highly toxic solvents. A team led by chemist Miriam Unterlass, Professor at the University of Konsta... - New state of matter: crystalline and flowing at the same time
More than 20 years ago, researchers predicted that with sufficiently high density certain particles of matter would form a new state of matter that features the properties of both crystalline solid...
- 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... - Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium
Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the civil nuclear industry or as fallout from nuclear weapon tests, the ratio of the two anthropogenic, i.e... - News software to characterise 60 lipid classes in cells with mass spectrometry
Researchers increasingly aim at utilising the manifold functions of lipids in our bodies, e.g. as blood fats or in blood coagulation, to better understand and predict diseases. An international ... - Real-time monitoring of biomineralisation as an important process of bone formation
21st century societal challenges such as demographic developments and an ageing population demand for new functional materials, such as for bone prostheses. Nature often serves as inspiration when ... - Evidence of more elementary particles in the nucleus of an atom
In the nucleus of an atom there are protons and neutrons. These are made up of elementary particles, specifically three quarks in each one. You can read about this in current physics textbooks - bu... - Leather-like material biofabrication using fungi
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... - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the development of CRISPR Cas9 technology
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Scientific and Managing Director of the newly established Max Planck Unit... - Environmental exposures affect therapeutic drugs
Humans are exposed to various environmental or dietary molecules that can attenuate or even increase the effect of therapeutic drugs. Studies on the industrial chemical bisphenol A and the phytoest...
- Replacing hydrogen with fluorine in organic molecules
The development and improvement of pharmaceuticals plays the central role in the ongoing battle against human disease. Organic synthesis is the field that enables these developments as it offers th... - How to separate nanoparticles by "shape"
In our daily lives, the purpose and function of an item is defined by either its material, e.g. a rain jacket is fabricated of water-proof material, or its shape, e.g. a wheel is round to enable a ... - Atomic motion captured on-the-fly by machine learning
Physicists of the University of Vienna publish findings on the phase transitions of hybrid perovskites that have the potential to serve as novel solar cell materials. At the atomic scale materia... - How do atoms vibrate in graphene nanostructures?
In order to understand advanced materials like graphene nanostructures and optimize them for devices in nano-, opto- and quantum-technology it is crucial to understand how phonons - the vibration o...
- Manipulating single atoms with an electron beam
All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be ... - Measuring the precise duration of the photoelectric response for the first time
Modern global networks of communication, solar power generation and distribution, and materials science are ultimately based on the photoelectric effect. More than a century after Albert Einstein e... - RNA Microchips - a new chapter in ribonucleic acid synthesis
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is, along with DNA and protein, one of the three primary biological macromolecules and was probably the first to arise in early life forms. In the "RNA world" hypothesis, RNA...
- Protein crystals - a manifold substance class for biological and pharmaceutical applications
Annette Rompel and her team of the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna are investigating so-called polyoxometalates. These compounds exhibit a great diversity and offer ... - A new tool to decipher evolutionary biology
A new bioinformatics tool to compare genome data has been developed by teams from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories, a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, t... - Neural networks carry out chemical simulations in record time
Researchers at the Universities of Vienna and Göttingen have succeeded in developing a method for predicting molecular infrared spectra based on artificial intelligence. These chemical "fingerprint... - Microbes leave 'fingerprints' on Martian rocks
Scientists around Tetyana Milojevic from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna are in search of unique biosignatures, which are left on synthetic extraterrestrial minerals by microbi...
- 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...