News – Pagina 8
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EnglishRuthenium with your coffee?
Researchers at the University of Liège have succeeded in producing bio-based ruthenium catalysts from caffeine and theophylline.
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EnglishPhotoswitch selects on size
By building an anion receptor with a gap that can be widened or narrowed by shining light on it, you can specifically control which anion binds.
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EnglishPassivation layer ligand improves stability of perovskite solar cells
A much longer lifetime is crucial to realising the promise of perovskite solar cells. A targeted choice of coating can increase its stability.
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EnglishCyclic peptide binds top-priority pathogen
In Bioconjugate Chemistry, Brussels-based researchers describe synthetic, nanobody-derived peptides that bind a top-priority pathogen.
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EnglishPerovskite-silicon tandem solar cells push through efficiency barrier
A new generation of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells can break the theoretical 30% efficiency barrier, Science reports.
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EnglishIce-binding proteins do the twist
A de novo designed protein with a slightly imperfect helix is able to keep ice crystals in check, Wageningen and Eindhoven researchers report in PNAS.
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EnglishPhosphorescence at room temperature ‘solved’
If you want to generate phosphorescence of organic molecules in solution, very precise tuning of the energy levels of the excited states of your molecule is required.
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English‘Dream scenario’ expands Synaffix’ scope
Being acquired by Lonza creates more room for Synaffix to develop bioconjugation in new directions
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EnglishVidi grants 2023: RNA interactions, noise regulation and catalytic gold atoms
Dutch research funding organisation NWO rewards 97 researchers with a Vidi grant, which also means a boost for the molecular research field.
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EnglishTagworks Pharmaceuticals raises €60 million to proceed towards clinical trials
Click-to-Release technology can increase the clinical applicability of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs).
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EnglishPhosphorus simply goes chiral
Ben Feringa’s group has found a simple and versatile way to make molecules in which the chiral centre sits on the phosphorus atom.
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EnglishCaged enzyme reduces CO2
If you confine the enzyme FDH in a metal-organic framework (MOF) with magnetite, it is stable enough to be recycled after it has reduced CO2.
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EnglishSimple cross-coupling method with countless flavours
A general protocol for cross-coupling reactions can be made using nickel salt and visible light, according to a paper in Nature.
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EnglishAntidepressant effects without the ‘bad trip’
Hallucinogenic side effects of therapeutically interesting synthetic and natural psychedelics could be avoided.
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EnglishDeploying paradoxical activity of IL-4 via fusion protein technology and nanopackaging
A team of Dutch scientists explains how they succeeded in targeting interleukin-4 to immune cells in the spleen and bone marrow.
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EnglishNH3 catalysis likes it hot
Raising the temperature of electrocatalytic NH3 synthesis with H-permeable Ni electrodes makes production higher, more stable and more efficient.
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EnglishNucleosides go (anti-)viral
Attaching antiviral purines to a ribose gives it both antiviral and antimicrobial properties.
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EnglishAmide catalyses chlorine production
In Nature, Chinese researchers propose organocatalysis as a way to make the old but still vital chlor-alkali process more efficient.
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EnglishRadical shielding weakens C–C bond
Simulations confirm that the use of electron withdrawing groups on radicals weakens the resulting C–C bond.
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EnglishStiff, light and flexible
Rigid materials cannot absorb shocks and cushioning materials are soft. Or are they?