Chemists turned plastic waste into tiny bars of soap
The time may be coming to wash our hands of plastic trash. Literally.
About 60 percent of all plastic ever made ends up in landfills or littering the environment. Only about one-tenth of…
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Chemists develop reaction cascade to produce fluorinated molecules
Fluorine is found rarely in naturally occurring organic molecules. However, this chemical element is indispensable for the production of pharmaceuticals or agrochemicals. Synthetic chemistry…
Using AI to create better, more potent medicines: Novel framework could offer…
While it can take years for the pharmaceutical industry to create medicines capable of treating or curing human disease, a new study suggests that using generative artificial intelligence…
Physical chemists develop photochromic active colloids shedding light on the…
In nature, the skin of cephalopods (animals with tentacles attached to the head) exhibits unparalleled camouflage ability. Their skin contains pigment groups that can sense changes in…
Chemists create carbon materials for energy storage device from brewery waste
Chemists at the University of Jena use brewer's grains as a biological resource for the fabrication of…
RNA’s ‘joints’ play key role in our gene expression: Longstanding…
University of Chicago scientists have discovered a new wrinkle in our understanding of how our genes work. The team, led by Chuan He, the UChicago John T. Wilson Distinguished Service…
Catching the wrongdoers in the act: Chemists develop a novel tool to decipher…
A research team led by Professor Xiang David LI from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a novel chemical tool to reveal how bacteria adapt to the…
Chemists synthesize ocean-based molecule that could fight Parkinson’s: In…
Organic chemists at UCLA have created the first synthetic version of a molecule recently discovered in a sea sponge that may have therapeutic benefits for Parkinson's disease and similar…
These chemists cracked the code to long-lasting Roman concrete
MIT chemist Admir Masic really hoped his experiment wouldn’t explode.
Masic and his colleagues were trying to re-create an ancient Roman technique for making concrete, a mix of…
New way to produce important molecular entity: Chemists develop method for simple…
Among the most common structures relevant to the function of biologically active molecules, natural products and drugs are so-called vicinal diamines -- in particular, unsymmetrically…