News – Pagina 9
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EnglishCO2 captured in Li battery electrolyte
The polymer of thiocarbonate monomers made with CO2 turns out to be very suitable as a solid-state electrolyte in lithium batteries
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EnglishMicroporous water helps reduce oxygen
When amphiphilic zeolites are used in water, the oxygen reduction reaction goes so well that the platinum catalyst is partly the limiting factor.
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EnglishMushroom poison has infrared solution
The known contrast agent indocyanine green can be used as an antidote to the world’s deadliest mushroom.
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EnglishTemperature-sensitive microcapsules bring DNA-based archive within reach
A new technique to access and read DNA files in parallel is another step towards using this biological data storage device.
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EnglishOPCW opens new chemical research laboratory
On 12 May, the new chemical technology laboratory of the OPCW, the ChemTech Centre, was officially inaugurated by King Willem-Alexander.
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EnglishBacteria can also make good use of radioactive elements
Non-natural radioactive elements are not a problem for some bacteria.
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EnglishDeracemisation by ‘green’ grinding
If you put a racemic mixture through a ball mill, one of the enantiopure forms will come out the other side within a few hours.
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EnglishAtom size – not electronegativity – determines polymer stability
The stability of hydrogen-bonded amide polymers depends on which atom replaces the oxygen in the amide.
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EnglishWind turbine blades can be chemically broken down into their building blocks
Two Nature publications present methods for giving hard-to-recycle polymers a second life.
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EnglishSmall Molecule of the Year 2022 announced
Each year, the Drug Hunter website highlights the small molecule of the year. Deucravacitinib emerged as the most popular of the ten nominees.
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EnglishTense DNA will loop neatly
Under a special microscope, the spatial arrangement of DNA turns out to be more complicated than expected.
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EnglishPlastic waste underneath an electric blanket
US researchers developed a method to depolymerise commodity plastics PP and PET without a catalyst.
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EnglishThe yellow rose and its lustre
A study has revealed a previously unknown degradation pathway for orpiment. The medium appears to play a greater role than previously thought.
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EnglishMethane hide-and-seek makes methanol
You can ‘hide’ methane in a cavity of an iron catalyst decorated with an organic structure and thus selectively oxidise it to methanol.
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EnglishAlgae autocatalyse biofuel production
The alga Chlorella variabilis can convert medium fatty acids into petrol-like hydrocarbons. However, commercial application is still a long way off.
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EnglishIron couples Suzuki
With a well-designed iron catalyst, it is easy to make Suzuki-Miyaura couplings, US researchers show in ACS Catalysis.
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EnglishHelix ‘catches’ chiral oxygen
For the first time ever, British researchers created a molecule with its single chiral centre on an oxygen atom.
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EnglishPast the von Neumann bottleneck in thousands of steps
Miniaturisation and integration into existing electronics are key to the large-scale application of memristors, programmable resistors that combine memory and processor in computers. Researchers in Groningen and the US are now developing methods to get more out of their memristors.
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EnglishERC Advanced Grants 2022 announced
The recipients of the prestigious (and substantial) ERC Advanced Grants 2022 were announced yesterday, also featuring members of the Dutch and Flemish chemistry communities.
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EnglishBiosensor as a Geiger counter
Chinese researchers have developed a biosensor that uses thioflavin T to detect strontium ions.