3+ hour, 6+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in China have transformed a polysaccharide extracted from the rhizomes of Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua, a plant long valued in traditional food and medicine, into a highly engineered carbon nanomaterial that can detect trace organic pollutants at concentrations as low…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (605+ words) A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia has developed a family of multiphase nanocomposites that can pull one of the most stubborn textile dyes out of contaminated water with remarkable efficiency. Writing in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society,…...

7+ hour, 38+ min ago   (537+ words) A humble transition-metal oxide, grown in a laboratory autoclave and shaped by nothing more exotic than temperature, has delivered one of the more striking demonstrations of visible-light water purification reported this year....

15+ hour, 29+ min ago   (833+ words) Lipid nanoparticles have become one of the most celebrated delivery vehicles in modern medicine, propelling messenger RNA vaccines to the forefront of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and opening a credible path toward RNA therapeutics for cancer, genetic…...

18+ hour, 14+ min ago   (104+ words) A single sheet of atoms may soon do what entire diagnostic laboratories do today: detect disease markers in blood, identify viral variants, track stress hormones in sweat and even monitor blood pressure continuously without a cuff. That is the central…...

1+ day, 41+ min ago   (72+ words) Diazomethane is one of organic chemistry’s most useful and most feared reagents. The simple molecule CH2N2 is a superb methylating agent, capable of converting carboxylic acids into methyl esters with almost effortless efficiency, and it plays a quiet but essential role…...

2+ day, 48+ min ago   (54+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Read more about the new world-class SUNY discoveries that are available for licensing at SUNY TechConnect. The Research Foundation offers numerous pathways to translate SUNY innovation into economic development opportunities. State University of New York More on this…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (630+ words) A simulated microscopic image of hexagonal boron nitride with a circular pore surrounded by triangular pores. Darker circles represent individual boron atoms, whilst lighter circles represent nitrogen atoms....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (63+ words) EurekAlert! Schematic overview of the study showing the fast deposition process of the organic twisted vertical heterostructure achieved by modulating the diffusion distance, along with color-tunable emission capability the vertical structure. More on this News Release Assembly of 2D organic crystals…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (854+ words) AI-assisted atomic force microscopy identifies tiny surface structures such as nanostructures, DNA assemblies and bacterial cells, and directs follow-up scans to regions most likely to contain scientifically relevant information. Newswise — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National…...