Chemistry News Archives Page 7

Technique Accelerates Biological Image Analysis (5/7/2008)

Will Improve Automated High-Throughput Screening Techniques ...> Full Article

Researcher devises fuel that are more efficient cells, thanks to a new catalyst (5/6/2008)

Researcher has developed new materials that enable the manufacture of cheaper and more efficient methanol fuel cells ...> Full Article

Fungi have a hand in depleted uranium's environmental fate (5/6/2008)

Fungi may have an important role to play in the fate of potentially dangerous depleted uranium left in the environment after recent war campaigns ...> Full Article

Lean and mean biomass-degrading fungus reveals capabilities for improved biofuel production (5/5/2008)

The genome analysis of a champion biomass-degrading fungus has revealed a surprisingly minimal repertoire of genes that it employs to break down plant cell walls, highlighting opportunities for further improvements in enzymes customized for biofuels production. ...> Full Article

Glowing sugars light up zebrafish (5/5/2008)

Using artificial sugar and some clever chemistry, researchers have made glow-in-the-dark fish whose internal light comes from the sugar coating on their cells. ...> Full Article

New 3-D Test Method for Biomaterials 'Flat Out' Faster (5/4/2008)

A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by more than half ...> Full Article

New oilsands extraction method could eliminate tailings ponds (5/4/2008)

New method of extracting bitumen from oilsands that uses almost no water and would solve the industry's toxic tailings ponds dilemma ...> Full Article

Microbes could boost world energy supply (5/1/2008)

Scientists expect to begin trials next month to find out whether microbes can unlock the vast amount of energy trapped in the world's unrecoverable heavy oil deposits ...> Full Article

Boost for 'green plastics' from plants (4/30/2008)

Researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products. ...> Full Article

Findings a step toward making new optical materials (4/28/2008)

>Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies. ...> Full Article

Gas from grass - surely not? (4/27/2008)

UK researchers hope to convert ryegrass into ethanol ...> Full Article

Researchers Find New Details Following the Path of Solar Energy During Photosynthesis (4/26/2008)

Researchers report on the energy-transferring functions within the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic light-harvesting protein, a pigment-protein complex in green sulfur bacteria that serves as a model system because it consists of only seven well-characterized pigment molecules ...> Full Article

First-class protein crystals thanks to weightlessness on earth (4/25/2008)

Dutch chemist has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions ...> Full Article

New Source for Biofuels Discovered by Researchers (4/24/2008)

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels ...> Full Article

Chemical Engineer Discovers Way of Increasing Battery Life with Environmentally Friendly Fuel Cells (4/23/2008)

Chemical engineering professor is exploring a way to increase battery life with an environmentally friendly alternative ...> Full Article

Ceramic, heal thyself (4/21/2008)

Simulation shows how defect-engineered zirconia repairs radiation-induced damage ...> Full Article

Biogas production is all in the mixing (4/20/2008)

Engineers using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm waste treatment. Anaerobic digesters employ reactors that use bacteria to break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen. ...> Full Article

Scientists deconstruct process of bacterial division (4/19/2008)

Researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide ...> Full Article

Self-repairing materials (4/18/2008)

Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? ...> Full Article

Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously (4/17/2008)

New research demonstrates that novel probe technology based on flexible membranes can replace conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative material characterization and single molecule mechanics measurements. ...> Full Article

Main group oxide goes metallic (4/16/2008)

Researchers succeeded for the first time in producing an insulator-metal transition in an oxide of a main group element ...> Full Article

Bioreactors create a marriage of the minds (4/15/2008)

Researchers to produce algal oil feedstock as biofuels for conversion to military jet fuel ...> Full Article

Promising new material for hydrogen storage (4/14/2008)

Lithium based material may be useful in hydrogen storage ...> Full Article

Scale production of corn-based plastics (4/13/2008)

China turning to the technologies that could manufacture plastics with plant fiber and starch ...> Full Article

'Green' method decontaminates deadly nerve agents (4/13/2008)

Research by two scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides. ...> Full Article

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, But Gasoline Might (4/12/2008)

Researchers make breakthrough in creating gasoline from plant matter, with almost no carbon footprint ...> Full Article

A New Take on Microbrewing (4/11/2008)

Researchers have crafted the world's tiniest alcohol still to concentrate scant amounts of micromolecules for easier detection ...> Full Article

Biophysicist Develops Computer Model To Study Cell Membrane Dynamics (4/10/2008)

Computer model provides a new approach to simulating and observing membrane dynamics at a relatively large scale - hundreds of nanometers. ...> Full Article

Gut reaction: Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel (4/9/2008)

An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow's stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel ...> Full Article

Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability' (4/8/2008)

New genre of superheavy chemical elements sought for more than three decades ...> Full Article