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Researchers at the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to observe the ...

Scientists have for the first time filmed the real-time growth and contraction of Palladium nanoparticles, opening new avenues for utilising and recycling precious metal catalysts.

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The reaction can also handle coupling partners that don’t work as well with other cross-couplings, such as nitrogen-containing rings. And it works with anilines and aryl boronates, which can be used ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong left a sample out by mistake. It was a small chip made of germanium, topped with thin layers ...

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About 98% of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded, but a new enzyme could be the key to ...