Chemistry
Oak Ridge National Laboratorys Madhavi Martin has reinvented an old analytical method, finding some very new applications for the technology in the process.
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A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible. The highly efficient catalyst performs two crucial, and previously unreachable steps needed to oxidize ethanol and produce clean energy in fuel cell reactions.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to induce a predetermined chirality or "handedness in pre-biological molecules.
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Administrative workers should begin moving into the Department of Homeland Security's new National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick within six months.
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Chemists at Oregon State University have developed a new organocatalyst that will play a major role in new drug development.
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A new, multi-institutional research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy, to be headquartered at the University of Virginia, will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
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A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and sensors that detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.
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A University of Illinois at Chicago research group may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to synthesize N-heterocycles, and the National Institutes of Health has just awarded the team a five-year, $1.48 million grant to prove its effectiveness.
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a novel way to churn out large quantities of drugs, including antiplaque toothpaste additives, antibiotics, nicotine, and even morphine, using mini biofactories--in yeast.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) and improved the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material.
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The way laboratories perform analysis and operate is changing. The market is demanding that laboratories become more efficient and reduce overall operating costs. At the same time, less skilled personnel are more affordable or more available.
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Molecular Profiles announces a new method to demonstrate the use of hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange and FT-Raman spectroscopy for the detection of low levels of amorphous material.
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