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Plant-inspired polymers for water purification

German-Japanese research team takes inspiration from nature, creating a polymer that selectively removes toxic heavy metal ions from water

31-Jul-2024 - Clean drinking water is a basic demand for our health and wellbeing. However, as the global population grows, achieving this for all communities worldwide becomes more challenging. Now, in a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the HeKKSaGOn Alliance – involved were ...

drinking water heavy metals ions
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Combined microscopy technique catches light-driven polymers in the act

Researchers combine high-speed atomic force microscopy with a laser light source for real-time observation of azo-polymer films

13-Mar-2024 - Expanding our scientific understanding often comes down to getting as close a look as possible at what is happening. Now researchers from Japan have observed the nanoscale behavior of azo-polymer films while triggering them with laser light. In a study published last month in Nano Letters the ...

atomic force microscopy material science optical microscopes
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Researchers succeeded in biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugar for the first time in the world

Biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugars enables sustainable supply of sugar without competing with food

21-Feb-2024 - Biomanufacturing using biomass sugars such as corn obtained from agriculture is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly technology. However, the supply of such conventional biomass sugars is limited in relation to the huge demand for the production of fuels and chemical products, ...

bacteria biomanufacturing Corynebacterium glutamicum
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Machine learning method speeds up discovery of green energy materials

Researchers ditch “trial and error” and turn to machine learning

23-Jan-2024 - Researchers at Kyushu University, in collaboration with Osaka University and the Fine Ceramics Center, have developed a framework that uses machine learning to speed up the discovery of materials for green energy technology. Using the new approach, the researchers identified and successfully ...

fuel cells hydrogen machine learning
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Imaging the smallest atoms provides insights into an enzyme's unusual biochemistry

This could help in the design of enzymes for the chemical industry

29-Sep-2023 - When your wounds heal and your liver detoxifies a poison such as histamine you ingested, you can thank the class of enzymes known as copper amine oxidases for their assistance. Identifying the exact positions of the smallest hydrogen atoms in these enzymes is challenging with commonly used ...

artificial enzymes biochemistry crystallography
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This one-atom chemical reaction could transform drug discovery

This nearly unprecedented work could simplify and lower the cost of pharmaceutical synthesis

09-Feb-2023 - Pharmaceutical synthesis is often quite complex; simplifications are needed to speed up the initial phase of drug development and lower the cost of generic production. Now, in a study recently published in Science, researchers from Osaka University have discovered a chemical reaction that could ...

carbenes chemical reactions drug design
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A sweet reaction: Microwaves might increase the sustainability of the chemicals industry

This work will help minimize use of fossil resources in industrial chemicals production

08-Feb-2023 - Much of what the chemicals industry produces, except for metals, is derived from fossil resources. Using renewable biomass and even one-carbon sources—such as formaldehyde—is necessary to increase the sustainability of the chemicals industry. In a study recently published in RSC Advances, ...

chemical industry chemical reactions chemical synthesis
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Non-destructive 3D elemental analysis

Researchers use muonic x-rays to find elemental makeup of samples without damaging them

03-May-2022 - By combining technologies originally designed for high-energy particle accelerators and astronomy observations, researchers can now for the first time analyze the elemental makeup of samples without damaging them, which could be useful for researchers working in other fields such as archaeology, ...

3D analysis elemental analysis elemental analytics
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Light-powered microbes are super-producing chemical factories

New method allows bacteria to use light for external energy to accelerate biomanufacturing of target compounds without disrupting the host microorganism's natural metabolism

14-Apr-2022 - Sharing is key to living in society, whether it’s toddlers sharing toys or nations sharing natural resources; but there’s no avoiding the fact that one side getting more means that the other side gets less. Now, researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with the University of Shizuoka ...

biomanufacturing biosynthesis chemical synthesis
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Seeing below the surface of bimetallic nanoparticles

New technique for tracking the synthesis of core–shell bimetallic nanoparticles

07-Mar-2022 - Nanoparticles are important in many disciplines because their high surface area compared with their volume gives them interesting properties. Continued development of analytical methods for nanoparticles is therefore crucial. Researchers from Osaka University have reported a way of characterizing ...

core-shell nanoparticles metal nanoparticles nanomaterials
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