Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one of the most consumed synthetic polyesters, has a challenging recycling process. Current PET recycling methods have achieved downcycling, which produces low-value products like PET textiles. ...
Polymers
Jul 19, 2023
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The living cell harbors physiologically relevant components such as the genetic material (DNA) and proteins in a "self-organized" setting. Understanding this process of self-assembly can reveal the underlying mechanism of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2023
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Antitumor agents must kill off cancer cells while protecting healthy tissue and create no toxic side-effects. A novel approach based on "self-immolative" polyferrocenes—copolymers that split apart into their components ...
Biochemistry
Jun 21, 2023
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Some foods and medicines, such as many COVID-19 vaccines, must be kept cold. As a step toward a robust, stable technique that could indicate when these products exceed safe limits, researchers in ACS Nano report a class of ...
Nanomaterials
May 31, 2023
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The vast majority of absorbent materials will lose their ability to retain water as temperatures rise. This is why our skin starts to sweat and why plants dry out in the heat. Even materials that are designed to soak up moisture, ...
Polymers
Apr 18, 2023
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Researchers have developed a novel synthetic substance that has the potential to be a more effective and safer way of delivering drugs around the body.
Biochemistry
Apr 6, 2023
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From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked.
Environment
Apr 3, 2023
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Chemists at Hokkaido University and the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) have developed the first high-performance catalyst specifically designed and optimized for solid-state, mechanochemical ...
Polymers
Mar 9, 2023
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Electro-thermal therapy, which involves applying electrical signals to nanomaterials, provides high cancer cell targeting accuracy and is highly bio-compatible. In this research, scientists from the Singapore University of ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 16, 2023
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Ethylene glycol is the most common ingredient in automotive antifreeze. But for years, it was used in deadly poisonings.
Materials Science
Dec 27, 2022
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