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The role of hydrophobic molecules in catalytic reactions
Optimising electrochemical processes is one of the challenges in developing technologies for renewable energies. New research findings could provide assistance here.
15-Apr-2021
Electrochemical processes could be used to convert CO2 into useful starting materials for industry. To optimise the processes, chemists are attempting to calculate in detail the energy costs caused by the various reaction partners and steps. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and ...
A stable copper catalyst for CO2 conversion
29-Mar-2021
A new catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. They optimized already available copper catalysts to improve their selectivity and long-term stability. The results ...
Quickly identify high-performance multi-element catalysts
Complex solid solution electrocatalyst discovery by computational prediction and high‐throughput experimentation
18-Feb-2021
Finding the best material composition among thousands of possibilities is like looking for a needle in a haystack. An international team is combining computer simulations and high-throughput experiments to do this. Catalysts consisting of at least five chemical elements could be the key to ...
How bacteria hunt bacteria
Predator-prey relationships between bacteria could provide ideas for new antibacterial strategies
18-Feb-2021
The research team led by Dr. Christine Kaimer from the Microbial Biology department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has taken a close look at predatory bacteria, which feed on other bacteria. Through microscopic examinations and protein analyses, they characterized the strategies used by the ...
Hydrogen-producing enzyme protects itself against oxygen
The discovery may make it possible to use oxygen-stable enzymes as hydrogen producers
04-Feb-2021
An international research team from the Photobiotechnology Research Group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) led by Professor Thomas Happe and the Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (CNRS) in Marseille has been able to get to the bottom of this unique feature. They describe ...
A prognostic Alzheimer’s disease blood test in the symptom-free stage
Memory deficit is a normal side effect of aging. At what point does memory loss become pathological?
08-Jan-2021
Using a blood test, a German-Dutch research team has predicted the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people who were clinically diagnosed as not having Alzheimer’s disease but who perceived themselves as cognitively impaired (Subjective Cognitive Declined, SCD). The researchers analyzed blood ...
Metal-organic frameworks become flexible
Materials science: Combined efforts of experiment and simulation pave the way to new applications.
19-Nov-2020
Materials consisting of inorganic and organic components can combine the best of two worlds: under certain circumstances, the so-called MOFs – short for metal-organic frameworks – are structured in the same order as crystals and are at the same time porous and deformable. This opens up the ...
Attacking tumours directly on identification
Therapy and diagnostics of tumours in only one step is possible with the aid of so-called theranostic agents
04-Sep-2020
The combination of a biomolecule and a metal complex can target, bind, mark and damage cancer cells. A German-Spanish team has manufactured such a theranostic agent that visualises tumour cells by irradiation with visible light, and proved its effectiveness against lung cancer cells. Andres ...
New kind of interaction discovered in hydrogen-producing enzymes
The findings should help to develop more efficient miniaturised hydrogenase catalysts in the future
18-Aug-2020
In hydrogenase enzymes, the transports of protons and electrons have been considered to be separate events until now. However, coupling is the key to success here. Hydrogenases can convert hydrogen just as efficiently as expensive platinum catalysts. In order to make them usable for ...
Programmable synthetic materials
In the future, MOFs could form the basis of programmable chemical molecules
10-Aug-2020
In DNA, information is stored in the sequence of chemical building blocks; in computers, information consists of sequences of zeros and ones. Researchers want to transfer this concept to artificial molecules. Artificial molecules could one day form the information unit of a new type of computer ...
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