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Released: 17-Feb-2021 5:50 PM EST
New highly radioactive particles found in Fukushima
University of Helsinki

The 10 year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident occurs in March.

Released: 17-Feb-2021 1:30 PM EST
Upending Complex Crystal Formation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researchers discover a new route to forming complex crystals

12-Feb-2021 10:05 AM EST
Making swimming pools safer by reducing chlorine disinfection byproducts
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have found that using a complementary form of disinfection, known as copper-silver ionization (CSI), can decrease disinfection byproducts and cell toxicity of chlorinated swimming pool water.

   
12-Feb-2021 10:00 AM EST
An mRNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have developed a hydrogel that, when injected into mice with melanoma, slowly released RNA nanovaccines that shrank tumors and kept them from metastasizing.

   
Released: 15-Feb-2021 8:25 AM EST
Building a better green workhorse
Washington University in St. Louis

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis lead a team awarded $1.7 million from the National Science Foundation to streamline the genome of a cyanobacterium with the goal of developing a green cellular factory for sustainable production of food, feed and fuels.

Released: 15-Feb-2021 5:05 AM EST
Solved: The mystery of toxic fracking byproducts
Washington University in St. Louis

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” relies on water, sand and other chemicals to clear the way for engineers to remove oil or gas from shale — porous rocks below the ground.Engineers know what they are pumping into the ground, but they haven’t understood why they have found certain highly dangerous compounds in flowback — the mixture of water, salt and other chemicals that flows back to the surface after being pumped through the shale.

Released: 11-Feb-2021 6:05 PM EST
Chemistry Professor named 2021 Cottrell Scholar
Creighton University

Award project, “Bottoms Up: Investigating the Growth and Glass-Forming Properties of Germania-Containing Colloids,” focuses on the advancement of fundamental chemistry to design novel, glass-forming particles that can be used to 3D print optical quality glasses.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 4:30 PM EST
Department of Energy to Invest $25 Million in Polymer Upcyling, Plastic Waste Reuse Research
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to invest $25 million in fundamental science to lay the groundwork for technology that finds reuses for plastic waste, makes strides toward addressing the global plastic waste crisis, and reduces the climate impacts of plastic production.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 12:10 PM EST
Bristol-led research will disrupt solar and expedite efforts toward Net-Zero target
University of Bristol

Imagine a city in the near future where buildings have solar panels integrated into windows, cladding and rooftops – allowing urban areas to generate their own clean and renewable energy. Thanks to a new grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Bristol’s Cabot Institute, that vision is set to become reality.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 10:30 AM EST
Study Reveals Platinum's Role in Clean Fuel Conversion
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and other collaborating institutions have uncovered dynamic, atomic-level details of how an important platinum-based catalyst works in the water gas shift reaction. The experiments provide definitive evidence that only certain platinum atoms play an important role in the chemical conversion, and could therefore guide the design of catalysts that use less of this precious metal.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 4:05 AM EST
The therapeutic potential of peptides
University of Vienna

Animal venoms as natural resource for new drugs. Currently, there are more than 80 peptide drugs on the global market and about twice as many in clinical development. Due to their beneficial properties, these biomolecules play already an important role in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, hormone disorders, HIV infection, and multiple sclerosis.

   
Released: 9-Feb-2021 2:40 PM EST
The invisible killer lurking in our consumer products
University of Eastern Finland

Our consumer products, such as food, cosmetics and clothes, might be filled with nanomaterials - unbeknownst to us.

Released: 9-Feb-2021 11:50 AM EST
ECS Celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The Electrochemical Society

The Electrochemical Society fosters full and equal access to, and participation in, science for women and girls. To mark February 11—designated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by the United Nations—the Society salutes women’s critical role in advancing electrochemistry and solid state science and related technologies—and the Society.

Released: 9-Feb-2021 11:45 AM EST
Northwestern Medicine Study Examines Sweat Chemistry and Cardiovascular Health
Northwestern Medicine

Can the chemistry of your sweat determine how healthy your heart is? A new study, enrolling participants at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, is researching how wearable sweat sensors could be used to monitor chronic cardiovascular conditions.

Released: 8-Feb-2021 4:05 PM EST
Designing Materials from First Principles with Yuan Ping
Brookhaven National Laboratory

The UC Santa Cruz professor uses computing resources at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials to run calculations for quantum information science, spintronics, and energy research.

Released: 8-Feb-2021 2:10 PM EST
Supercomputers Help Advance Computational Chemistry
University of California San Diego

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to detect electron correlation – the interaction between a system’s electrons – which is vital but expensive to calculate in quantum chemistry.

Released: 8-Feb-2021 11:40 AM EST
Study of supergiant star Betelgeuse unveils the cause of its pulsations
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Betelgeuse is normally one of the brightest, most recognizable stars of the winter sky, marking the left shoulder of the constellation Orion.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 4:20 PM EST
Timothy Bertram: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Timothy Bertram of the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is studying the role atmospheric chemistry plays in regulating concentrations of air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and aerosol particles.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 4:05 PM EST
SARS-CoV-2 under the helium ion microscope for the first time
Bielefeld University

Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 9:50 AM EST
Molecules Bend for Organic Electronics
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists have created a new type of electricity-conducting polymer containing both linear and ring elements. The new polymers have very different electronic properties than scientists would expect if the polymers simply added the contributions from each linear and ring component. The polymers open new avenues for moving energy within and between polymers.



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