Ceria nanoparticles could lessen the damage from ischemic strokes
Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.

New Treatment for Stroke?

Enzymes Dig Channels
Enzymatic etching used to build nano- and microscale surface topologies to allow easy and rapid detection of tumor cells in blood

Direction Selection
New method for template-directed DNA synthesis in the 3’ and 5’ directions could help explain origin of life

Glowing Flowers for Ultra-Trace Analysis of TNT
Gold mesoflowers, flower-shaped gold particles, allow the selective optical TNT detection down to the sub-zeptomole level

Ibuprofen Decoy
Pain-reliever ibuprofen makes enzyme oxidize styrene with hydrogen peroxide

Gold Nanoparticles Follow “Genetic Code”
Different sequences of DNA influence the morphology of growing gold nanocrystals

Dual Role for CO2
Carbon dioxide acts as both reactant and extractive phase in the continuous hydrogenation of CO2 to pure formic acid

Electrophilic Sneeze
Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation

Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence

Self-Inflicted Asymmetry
Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes