News – Pagina 2
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EnglishNot all that glitters is gold
Researchers from the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, came across unusual arsenic sulfide pigments that Rembrandt, among others, used to create strikingly shiny details in his work.
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EnglishProgramming molecular memory
Using a simple autocatalytic reaction, researchers have programmed a chemical reaction network that has memory and performs logical functions.
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English(Not) sharing is caring
Using a combination of heat and light, symmetric σ-bonds can be broken asymmetrically, German researchers show in Nature.
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EnglishZapping sand
Turning soft beaches into hard rock. American researchers managed this (at least on lab scale) by exposing sea-soaked sand to a mild electric current.
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EnglishCleaner polystyrene thanks to improved degassing
Modifications to the degassing process have enabled Ineos Styrolution Antwerp to increase the purity of its food-grade high-impact polystyrene.
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EnglishCrash course in computational chemistry
The TheoCheM group from VU Amsterdam is now offering a course to get chemists from various disciplines up to (computational) speed in just five days.
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EnglishBridging Bonds Speaker Highlight: Matt Baker (Maastricht)
The new symposium Bridging Bonds will uncover the collaboration potential of soft matter and macromolecules. Here we highlight speaker Matt Baker, associate professor at Maastricht University.
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EnglishThe best of both monomers
By fusing two commonly used monomers into a new monomer, you can combine their best properties, a Leuven team shows in ChemSusChem.
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EnglishIg Nobel prize for drunken worms
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded again last night, and Dutch scientists from Amsterdam won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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EnglishNew ‘super antibiotic’ overcomes resistance
A team from Leiden has developed an extremely potent antibiotic against Gram-positive bacteria, including drug resistant strains.
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EnglishSmart intruders
By studying the infection of lung organoids, Swiss researchers revealed how a notorious pathogen deploys a Trojan horse-stategy.
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EnglishA closer look at The Night Watch
For two weeks, a hand-held Laser Speckle Imaging device analysed The Night Watch from just a few centimetres away.
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EnglishHundreds of millions for European ‘starters’
Throughout Europe, 494 researchers will receive a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant. Among the laureates we spotted members from KNCV, NBV and NVBMB.
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English‘Fluoride drugs’ can now be made without PFAS
An international team has developed a synthetic strategy to make NCF3, SCF3 and OCF3 anions for drugs with far fewer PFAS-generating steps.
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EnglishRecyclable superglue
The natural building block α-lipoic acid can be used to make polymers that behave like superglue and are easy to depolymerise locally.
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EnglishERC Proof of Concept grants 2024 announced
For 19 scientists in Belgium and The Netherlands, good news arrived just in time for the summer holidays as they were granted an ERC Proof of Concept grant.
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EnglishFrom black biotar to biopolymer
A biorefinery waste product can be easily processed into functional powders and tough polymers, Leuven researchers show in ChemSusChem.
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EnglishFrom methanol to formaldehyde at high TEMPO
If you attach the TEMPO catalyst to an electrode, it can replace the role of platinum in the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde.
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EnglishMillions for circular plastic projects
Ten projects have been awarded €6 million each by the National Growth Fund program Circular Plastics NL to make circular plastics.
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EnglishNanoparticle ligands captured in graphene
If you put gold nanoparticles in a graphene shell, you can see the molecules on the gold surface with an electron microscope, even in a liquid.