Spoiling foods, souring wine and worsening wounds have a common culprit — a chemical reaction called oxidation. Although
May 14, 2020
Niclosamide, a drug used to treat tapeworms, has been found to have strong antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. But the drug itself has limited potential because its structure makes it difficult to dissolve...
May 14, 2020
TU Dresden chemists developed a freeze-thaw method, capable of synthesising various noble metal aerogels (NMAs) with clean surfaces and multiscale structure. In virtue of their hierarchical structures and unique optical properties, outstanding pe...
May 14, 2020
Writing in the journal NanoResearch, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports this week that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made.
May 14, 2020
Scientists have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made. It uses electric-charge-conducting protein nanowires derived from the bacterium Geobacter to provide biomaterials for electrical devices.
May 14, 2020
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is is the most common type of primary liver cancer and one of the most aggressive and hyper-vascularized forms of cancer. Many current chemotherapeutics fail to achieve the effective therapeutic index in the solid tu...
May 14, 2020
When winter smog takes over Asian mega-cities, more particulate matter is measured in the streets than expected. An international team has now discovered that nitric acid and ammonia contribute to the formation of additional particulate matter. Ni...
May 14, 2020
Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, or Chardonnay -- when you reach for your favorite white, it's the clean, clear sparkle that first catches your eye. Or does it? When white wines look cloudy it's a sign of protein instability, and a sure-fire w...
May 13, 2020
Writing in the journal NanoResearch, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports this week that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made.
May 13, 2020
Widely tuneable continuous-wave lasers based on OPO technology ease qubit characterization The post Tuneable light speeds up the search for the perfect qubit appeared first on Physics World.
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