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Doctors have a powerful arsenal of cancer-fighting chemotherapy drugs to choose from, though a key challenge is to better target these drugs to kill tumors while limiting their potentially harmful side effects.Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are helping to develop and test materials for a device that can be inserted via a tiny tube into a vein and soak up most of these drugs like...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have, for the first time, successfully used a terahertzlaser to induce permanent changes in the conformation of a polymer, giving it an increased pattern of crystallisation. Conformational changes are very important for macromolecular science because they can change the characteristics of a material and, in the case of proteins, can make it either possible or impossible for them to per...

Renewable electricity company Good Energy has signed an agreement to supply power for the production of hydrogen fuel. The firm will provide zero carbon electricity to ITM Power’s hydrogen car refuelling stations. The stations produce the hydrogen on site using electricity and tap water.

A radical process that allows hydrogen to be efficiently sourced from liquid formic acid could be one step forward in the making of hydrogen-powered cars.Using formic acid to produce hydrogen has never been considered viable because it requires high temperatures to decompose and also produces waste by-products.But the University of Melbourne's Professor Richard O'Hair has led an international team of scientists in designing a molecular catalyst t...

Researchers at PNNL have demonstrated that stored renewable energy can be interconverted efficiently and inexpensively by mimicking enzymatic catalysts used in biological processes. Enzymes consist of an active site-a metal where the reaction happens with connections to the rest of the protein-and a protein scaffold surrounding the active site. That PNNL research team, led by Dr. Wendy Shaw, predicted that many parts of the protein scaffold play ...

Rice University researchers who developed the first nanocars and colleagues at North Carolina State University found in recent tests that driving their vehicles in ambient conditions – exposed to open air, rather than a vacuum – got dicey after a time because the hydrophobic single-molecule cars stuck to the "road" and created what amounted to large speed bumps.The findings were reported in the American Chemical Society's Journal of P...

Intense sunlight, searing heat and high exposure to dust; solar modules in the desert are exposed to different climate conditions than those in Germany. An interesting challenge for the solar researchers at the Fraunhofer CSP in Halle. Author: Kathrain Graubaum (text and photo)

A technology called HydRegen is being developed by Professor Kylie Vincent and her team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford that promises to make the production of fine chemicals 'cheaper, faster, safer and cleaner'.The project was recently awarded an Innovate UK/EPSRC grant worth £2.9 million and was the overall winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Emerging Technology competition in 2013.

ETH scientists have discovered a catalyst that allows the easy conversion of natural gas constituents into precursors for the production of fuels or complex chemicals, such as polymers or pharmaceuticals. The new catalyst is extremely stable and results in fewer unwanted by-products.The use of natural gas as a raw material for chemicals production is a goal pursued intensively in chemical research.

The recently released RLE EXC OTD 2x4/ 2x8 HP LED modules from Tridonic are resistant to overvoltage and are geared towards demanding outdoor and industrial applications. They can be combined with standard lenses and support modular luminaire design. Thanks to a variety of beam characteristics many different lighting scenarios can be created.