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Newswise: FSU Chemist Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Study Platinum Group Elements
Released: 31-Oct-2024 5:35 PM EDT
FSU Chemist Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Study Platinum Group Elements
Florida State University

A Florida State University chemist will use a three-year, $1.185 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study platinum group elements, or PGEs, at the molecular level in order to identify more affordable and abundant alternatives.

Newswise: The Breadth of Breast Cell Types
Released: 31-Oct-2024 1:30 PM EDT
The Breadth of Breast Cell Types
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and fittingly, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center biologist Curt Hines, PhD, has published a pair of papers that comprehensively describe the twelve major types of cells in the human breast.

Released: 31-Oct-2024 12:10 PM EDT
A Trick of Light: UC Irvine Researchers Turn Silicon Into Direct Bandgap Semiconductor
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 31, 2024 — By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar cells that could help spread the energy-converting technology to a vast range of applications, including thermoelectric clothing and onboard vehicle and device charging.

Newswise: Impact of molecular symmetry on crystallization pathways in extremely supersaturated solutions
Released: 30-Oct-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Impact of molecular symmetry on crystallization pathways in extremely supersaturated solutions
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has become the first in the world to observe the structural evolution of solute molecules in extremely supersaturated aqueous solutions, revealing that changes in molecular symmetry impact on the formation of new metastable material phases.

25-Oct-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Some Wildfire Suppressants Contain Heavy Metals and Could Contaminate the Environment
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters explored whether wildfire suppressants could be a source of elevated metal levels sometimes found in waterways after wildfires are extinguished. Several products they investigated contained high levels of at least one metal.

Newswise: Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling
Released: 29-Oct-2024 4:20 PM EDT
Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A recent collaboration among researchers from HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with industry collaborators SandboxAQ and NVIDIA, has achieved unprecedented speed and performance in efforts to model complex metal-containing molecules.

Newswise: Iowa State Study Shows Zinc’s Potential to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Released: 28-Oct-2024 3:55 PM EDT
Iowa State Study Shows Zinc’s Potential to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Iowa State University

A research team at Iowa State University has found that zinc supplements may be an inexpensive, effective antidote to the growing health threat of antimicrobial resistance, potentially extending the effectiveness of today’s antibiotic arsenal against disease.

   
Newswise: AI Computer Models May Make Development of New Drugs Easier and More Cost-Effective
Released: 28-Oct-2024 11:25 AM EDT
AI Computer Models May Make Development of New Drugs Easier and More Cost-Effective
Wayne State University Division of Research

A grant from the National Institutes of Health will help Wayne State University researchers explore new avenues for using computer models to produce medications.

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Released: 28-Oct-2024 11:25 AM EDT
Rensselaer Researcher Seeks New Treatment For Blindness-Causing Diseases
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Christopher Cioffi, Ph.D., Thomas and Constance D'Ambra Professor in Organic Chemistry, has been collaborating with Konstantin Petrukhin, Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmic Science at Columbia University, to develop compounds to treat dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Stargardt disease — both blindness-causing diseases. The team’s work has led to the discovery of an advanced preclinical candidate. Now, Cioffi and Petrukhin have received a $6.4 million grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute to conduct drug development work and investigational new drug (IND)-enabling toxicology studies.

Newswise: Encrypted Peptides, New Class of Antibiotics, Offer Hope in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
21-Oct-2024 4:30 PM EDT
Encrypted Peptides, New Class of Antibiotics, Offer Hope in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

In a significant advance against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, , researchers have identified a novel class of antimicrobial agents known as encrypted peptides, which may expand the immune system’s arsenal of tools to fight infection.

Newswise: Lab-Grown Pork Gets Support From Sorghum Grain
Released: 28-Oct-2024 9:30 AM EDT
Lab-Grown Pork Gets Support From Sorghum Grain
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers publishing in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have created a prototype cultured pork using a new material: kafirin proteins isolated from red sorghum grain.

Newswise: By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment
Released: 24-Oct-2024 4:00 PM EDT
By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne are working toward a circular economy by developing technologies to turn waste into valuable commodities.

Newswise: A Cosmic Chemical Breakthrough: Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks for Complex Organic Matter
23-Oct-2024 2:00 PM EDT
A Cosmic Chemical Breakthrough: Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks for Complex Organic Matter
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches of space. There should be a lot of carbon in space, but surprisingly, it's not always easy to find. While it can be observed in many places, it doesn’t add up to the volume astronomers would expect to see. The discovery of a new, complex molecule (1-cyanopyrene), challenges these expectations, about where the building blocks for carbon are found, and how they evolve. This research was published today in the journal Science.

Newswise: Applied Materials and National University of Singapore Expand Semiconductor Research Lab
Released: 24-Oct-2024 7:20 AM EDT
Applied Materials and National University of Singapore Expand Semiconductor Research Lab
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Applied Materials South East Asia Pte. Ltd. and the National University of Singapore (NUS) are furthering their collaboration to bring advanced semiconductor research capabilities and talent development opportunities to Singapore.

Newswise: The Fireproof Battery
Released: 24-Oct-2024 4:15 AM EDT
The Fireproof Battery
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Originally developed for electric cars, nowadays they supply mobile phone antennas with electricity, and tomorrow perhaps entire districts: The salt battery is a safe and long-lasting battery technology with huge potential. Empa researchers are collaborating with an industrial partner to further develop these special batteries.

Newswise: New Tool Enables a More Complete and Rapid Decoding of the Language of Algal Gene Expression
Released: 23-Oct-2024 9:10 AM EDT
New Tool Enables a More Complete and Rapid Decoding of the Language of Algal Gene Expression
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

A new method that research teams can use to measure and compare different forms of proteins and protein complexes helped reveal a previously unseen molecular signature of how algal genomes are controlled during the cell cycle.

Newswise: From Nature to Chemistry: Bioinspired Catalysis for CO2 Valorization
Released: 23-Oct-2024 3:40 AM EDT
From Nature to Chemistry: Bioinspired Catalysis for CO2 Valorization
Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong

Join us as Professor Marc Fontecave, our HKIAS Senior Fellow and Professor from Collège de France, explores innovative bioinspired molecular catalysis for CO2 reduction. Discover how nature’s lessons on CO2 reduction inspire the design of new molecular catalysts with high efficiency and selectivity.

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17-Oct-2024 9:25 AM EDT
Reaction Conditions Tune Catalytic Selectivity
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new theoretical framework for more accurately predicting the behavior of catalysts. The study reveals how conditions such as temperature and pressure can change a catalyst’s structure, efficiency, and even the products it makes — and can potentially be used to control reaction outcomes.

Newswise: Argonne Materials Scientist Mercouri Kanatzidis Wins Award From American Chemical Society for Chemistry of Materials
Released: 21-Oct-2024 12:10 PM EDT
Argonne Materials Scientist Mercouri Kanatzidis Wins Award From American Chemical Society for Chemistry of Materials
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne materials scientist Mercouri Kanatzidis received the award for chemistry in materials from the American Chemical Society, the nation’s leading professional society for chemists.



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