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Porous Polymer Could Spot Traumatic Brain Injuries

The forces from an explosive blast or a head-on tackle can shake a person’s head, causing damage that might trigger long-term neurodegeneration. To help doctors determine whether a patient might suffer...

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Bimetallic Clusters Exhibit Exceptional Catalytic Ability

Minuscule metal clusters consisting of just a few atoms of two types of metals can catalyze chemical reactions with extraordinary selectivity if the clusters are supported on a solid and kept isolated...

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Sunlight Coaxes Urban Grime To Release Smog Compound

A grimy film covers the streets, statues, and buildings in our cities. This dirty chemical soup, deposited from pollution and dust, could play a previously unknown role in urban air quality, according...

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DNA And Protein Self-Assemble Into Biodegradable Solar Antenna

A new light-harvesting antenna complex could pave the way for making biologically based solar cells. Challa V. Kumar and his team at the University of Connecticut made the biodegradable antenna from...

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Chemists Grind Up New Crystalline Metal-Organic Framework From Amorphous...

Grinding a crystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) material in a ball mill converts it into an amorphous structure and then into other crystal morphologies, according to research presented Tuesday at...

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A pH-Sensitive Polymer Could Lead To Long-Term Drug Delivery Devices

A new family of polymers could help fight obesity and antibiotic resistance just by falling apart. Researchers led by Giovanni Traverso of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Robert Langer of...

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Automated Flow Technique Makes Length- And Sequence-Specific Polymers

Traditional synthetic polymers contain a distribution of chain lengths and monomer sequences. For applications such as molecular electronics, however, scientists want to create polymers of a specific...

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MOF Phosphor Improves On Light-Emitting Diodes

CORRECTION: Story was updated on 8/20/2015 to correct the type of yellow phosphor used in the white LED. Light-emitting diodes are now state-of-the-art when it comes to lighting. Yet scientists are...

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#ACSBoston In Review

Despite the unusual heat and humidity that turned Boston into a sweaty mess, nearly 14,000 chemists gathered in the historical city this week to provide a refreshing new perspective on how innovation...

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Siloxane Polymer Achieves Record Stretchiness

Chemists working at Pennsylvania-based materials supplier Gelest have created a siloxane polymer that is so stretchy, two yards of the material could extend across the length of a football field....

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