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...
View ArticleBimetallic 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...
View ArticleSunlight 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...
View ArticleDNA 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...
View ArticleChemists 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleAutomated 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...
View ArticleMOF 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleSiloxane 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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