News articles tagged with 'reaction' (Page 10)
Chemists have succeeded in creating 'designer enzymes'
— 20 Mar 2008 15:27 | ChemistryChemists from UCLA and the University of Washington have succeeded in creating 'designer enzymes,' a major milestone in computational chemistry and protein engineering…
All alone, ammonia and hydrogen chloride use negativity to get attached
— 14 Feb 2008 19:00 | ChemistryElectrons - bits of negative energy that shock you when you touch a door handle - spur the chemical reaction between an acid and a base, according to new results in the journal Science.…
Chemistry experts team up to predict pollutant reactions
— 12 Feb 2008 19:43 | ChemistryTwo Johns Hopkins chemists - one bioinorganic and the other environmental - have joined forces to create a new approach for studying pollutant reactions in the environment. By drawing…
Argonne breakthrough may revolutionise ethylene production
— 6 Feb 2008 15:45 | ChemistryA new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may revolutionise the production of the world's…
Researchers discover new haemoglobin function
— 5 Nov 2007 18:44 | ChemistryA team of researchers from Wake Forest University, the National Institutes of Health and other institutions has discovered a previously undetected chemical process within the oxygen-carrying…
Platinum-rich shell, platinum-poor core
— 23 Oct 2007 21:07 | ChemistryHydrogen fuel cells will power the automobiles of the future; however, they have so far suffered from being insufficiently competitive. At the University of Houston, Texas, USA, a team…
Gerhard Ertl wins the Nobel in chemistry
— 10 Oct 2007 10:14 | ChemistryThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl 'for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.' Gerhard Ertl…
A new view of photosynthesis
— 3 May 2007 20:00 | BiologyDuring the remarkable cascade of events of photosynthesis, plants approach the pinnacle of stinginess by scavenging nearly every photon of available light energy to produce food. Yet…