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Researchers discover an alternative to PEG

rPEG as a new type of Poly(ethylene glycol): random chains offer multiple advantages for medical application

28-Jun-2024 - Researchers have discovered a highly promising replacement for polyethylene glycols (or PEGs), which are considered almost indispensable in the pharmaceutical and medical fields. The new substance class called rPEG offers all the advantages of PEGs, while avoiding their drawbacks and has the ...

chemistry polymer chemistry immune system
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Molecular manganese complex as superphotooxidant

Scientists developed a new molecular system made from the abundant element manganese for photooxidations

13-Feb-2024 - Highly reducing or oxidizing photocatalysts are a fundamental challenge in photochemistry. Only a few transition metal complexes with Earth-abundant metal ions have so far advanced to excited state oxidants, including chromium, iron, and cobalt. All these photocatalysts require high energy light ...

chemistry photochemistry chemical reactions
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Phasing out fossil fuels could save millions of lives

The mortality burden attributable to air pollution from fossil fuel use is considerably higher than most previous estimates - a phaseout of fossil fuels would have tremendous, positive health outcomes

05-Dec-2023 - A new study by an international team of scientists provides new evidence to motivate rapid fossil fuel phaseout. The science team determined exposure to ambient air pollution and its health impacts using an updated atmospheric composition model, a newly developed relative risk model and recent ...

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Low-cost molybdenum complex paves the way for sustainable photochemistry

Scientists use molybdenum for photocatalysis and photon upconversion

06-Sep-2023 - Given the urgent need for transforming how we use and produce energy, researchers are working hard to find sustainable and cost-effective materials for light-driven chemical applications. To date, this research field heavily relies on expensive precious metal or rare-earth metal complexes with ...

chemistry photochemistry carbonyl complexes
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Producing carboxylic acids employing an environmentally friendly technique

Electrochemistry provides new opportunities

30-Aug-2023 - Researchers at Mainz University and Evonik have developed an innovative method to cleave and oxidize double- and triple-bonds in hydrocarbon. Polyamides are present in many different products, such as ropes for mountaineering, parachutes of nylon, and materials for 3D printing. Dicarboxylic acids ...

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A sustainable path for energy-demanding photochemistry

Novel strategy for the generation of highly energetic UV light

05-Dec-2022 - Many photochemical processes rely on UV light from inefficient or toxic light sources that the LED technology cannot replace for technical reasons. An international team of scientists led by Professor Christoph Kerzig of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and Professor Nobuhiro ...

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Wafer-thin nanopaper changes from firm to soft at the touch of a button

Bioinspired cellulose nanofibrils can be controlled by electricity

25-Mar-2021 - Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in endowing materials with a ...

chemistry material science cellulose
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Synthesis of opium alkaloids using electric current

A selective electrochemical reaction offers a solution to a long-standing synthetic challenge

02-Jul-2018 - Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have mastered a nearly 50-year-old challenge of electrosynthetic chemistry, namely the electrochemical synthesis of thebaine. The chemists had set themselves this difficult task within the framework of a collaboration with the University of ...

chemistry electrochemistry alkaloids

Carl Zeiss Foundation donates EUR 850,000 to the Advanced Lab for Electrochemistry and Electroorganic Synthesis

Research structure concept of ELYSION enhances the relevance in the fields of electroconversion and electroactive materials

14-Aug-2015 - Over the next four years, the Carl Zeiss Foundation will be providing support in the form of EUR 850,000 to the Advanced Lab for Electrochemistry and Electroorganic Synthesis (ELYSION at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The use of electricity as a catalyst in chemical reactions is one ...

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End of the magic: Shell model for beryllium isotopes invalidated

Atomic nuclei in laser light: Nuclear physicists investigate magic shells

10-Apr-2012 - A research group led by Professor Dr. Wilfried Nörtershäuser has, for the first time, managed to measure the size of the charge distribution in the atomic nucleus of the highly exotic beryllium-12 isotope. The researchers were surprised to find that the so-called charge radius increases in ...

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