Scientists have a contact lens prototype that is specially designed to prevent contact lens-induced dry eye. Credit: Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation A team from…
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Using sunlight to power the photoredox system pyruvic acid and CO¬2 are converted into fumaric acid, by malate dehydrogenase and fumarase. Credit: Yutaka Amao, Osaka…
Polymer fluorescent inks can now also be produced in red. Credit: ETH Zurich ETH Zurich researchers have created new fluorescent dyes that are simple and…
For their artificial fairy, Hao Zeng and Jianfeng Yang got inspired by dandelion seeds. Credit: Jianfeng Yang / Tampere University The loss of pollinators, such…
According to the researchers, this newly discovered behavior has implications for comprehending the function of phosphate ions in biocatalysis, energy balance in cells, and the…
Diabetic wounds, also known as diabetic foot ulcers, are a common complication of diabetes. They are typically caused by a combination of factors such as…
A group of scientists at the University of Chicago has discovered a way to create a material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and…
The team’s vanillin derivative can be degraded upon command. This instruction would be sent with a certain wavelength of light. Light-based upcycling: crosslinked polymers produced…
They discovered that incorporating even 3% of sugar polymer units into PLA (Poly(lactic acid) caused PLA to degrade by 40% after six hours of UV…
The lepidopteran Galleria mellonella worm species is able to quickly break down polyethylene through the use of its saliva. A CSIC research team found that…
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to…
A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable. A polymer that catalyzes its own formation in an environmentally…
MIT and IBM researchers have use a generative model with a graph grammar to create new molecules belonging to the same class of compound as…
A bacterial enzyme (crystal structure shown here) makes a new type of biodegradable polymer, acholetin, which might someday find use in drug delivery, tissue engineering…
Carolina chemists develop a way to modify common polymers used in grocery bags, water and soda bottles and packaging to make it easier — and…
A new woody composite, engineered by a team at MIT, is tough as bone and hard as aluminum, and it could pave way for naturally-derived…
Rice University graduate students Faye Yap, left, and Zhen Liu characterize a mask sample. Researchers at Rice and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,…
A novel polymer developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory strengthens sand for additive manufacturing applications. A 6.5 centimeter 3D-printed sand bridge, shown here, held 300…
A material derived from trees could potentially replace liquid electrolytes in next-generation batteries. In pursuit of batteries that deliver more power and operate more safely,…
Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person…