Sentences with phrase «of useful chemicals»

«S. ovata is a great carbon dioxide catalyst as it makes acetate, a versatile chemical intermediate that can be used to manufacture a diverse array of useful chemicals,» says Michelle Chang.

Or, as he says, more simply yet, his research attempts «to improve the production of useful chemicals in plants.»

«Chemical engineers boost bacteria's productivity: New technique improves yield of useful chemicals.»

In addition to its common use in vehicle catalytic converters, rhodium is also used in combination with other metals to efficiently drive a wide range of useful chemical reactions.

An additional beauty of a Skyonic plant is the sale of a useful chemical product, actually several products including the bicarbonate, hydrochloric acid, and common bleach.

Not exact matches

The properties of the chemical substances, a plant's movement towards the sun and its ability to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide are very useful to humans in general and can be very useful to designers.

The United Nations Environment Programme» has developed a useful database called the «Inventory of Trade Names of Chemical Products Containing Ozone Depleting Substances and their Alternatives».

In conclusion, we find this powder very useful and it can be seen as a vitamins» supplement which is 100 % natural (the ones you can get in the form of pills have chemicals and the vitamins are processed).

This book is chock - full of useful info to help you lower your chemical intake and set you and your baby up for a healthy start.

The periodic table is now ubiquitous within the academic discipline of chemistry, providing an extremely useful framework to classify, systematize and compare all the many different forms of chemical behavior.

In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.

Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy - packed carbon rings that are useful starting materials for creating other chemicals and materials.

«The applications for this thing are kind of endless,» says chemist Christopher Cahill of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Choosing the right linker molecule between subunits could lead to even roomier crystals or give them other useful chemical properties, he says.

«The goal of our work was to develop an alternative approach to making ammonia, but the insights that have come from this collaboration between our research groups can be applied to other difficult chemical processes, such as converting carbon dioxide into a less harmful and more useful product.

Microflowers created from organic chemicals can grow on their own, creating intricate structures useful for a range of applications

The arrangement of atoms in an alloy changes the chemical properties of its constituent metals and makes it potentially useful to catalyse reactions.

Hydrocarbons proved extremely useful to the new world of chemical fabrication for the same reason that hydrogen and carbon are vital to the chemistry of life.

«We have demonstrated that we can electrospray liquid precursors inside a high vacuum environment of an electron microscope and then use electrons to facilitate useful chemical transformations,» said Fedorov.

But the similarities between the materials may not be as useful as previously thought, according to new results reported this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing.

«The approach should prove especially useful where it is not possible, or practical, to repair the material once it has been put to use,» writes University of Delaware chemical engineer Richard Wool in a commentary in Nature.

There are plenty of ways to convert biomass into useful fuels and chemicals.

Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.

Only 20 % of the pyrolysis oils are converted to useful chemicals.

One of the biggest challenges in breaking down biomass into useful chemicals suitable for making biofuels is finding ways to selectively depolymerise lignocellulosic biomass into its monomers: glucose, xylose and lignin.

«Although this Edisonian approach is useful for a posteriori understanding of the factors that govern assembly,» notes Kumar, Chemical Engineering Department Chair and the study's co-author, «it doesn't allow us to a priori design these materials into desired structures.

«Converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals in a selective and efficient way remains a major challenge in renewable and sustainable energy research,» according to Feng Jiao, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the project's lead researcher.

Explaining this chemical quirk could help scientists better understand the operations of molecular machines, which may be useful for transporting information in electronic devices or delivering drugs to specific cells (SN: 10/29/16, p. 6).

Very few of these will be useful because enzymes have to be an exact fit for the chemical they react with, just as a lock can only be opened by a specific key.

The chemical properties of a diamond - based thermometer also support the idea that this system could be useful for measuring temperature gradients in biological systems, such as the interior of living cells, Awschalom said.

Noble metals such as platinum are useful as catalysts for versatile chemical reactions including fuel cell vehicles and reduction of CO2 emission.

«For most of the side effects we have a biological hypothesis, and for many of these cases we also have chemical information about the drug, which may be useful to predict a specific secondary effect,» explains ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, head of the «Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology» at IRB Barcelona.

«Nano - sized mesoporous silica particles have already been established as useful for manipulating individual cells from the inside, but this is the first time that larger particles, in the micron - sized range, are used to create a 3D in vivo scaffold that can recruit and attract tens of millions of immune cells,» said co-lead author Jaeyun Kim, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University and a former Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

This strategy led to the discovery of NIR luminescence and also paves the way for other types of nanoparticle alloys that are useful not only in imaging, but in applications like catalysis for the industrial - scale conversion of fossil fuels into fine chemicals.

The scientists say such chemicals could become useful in the future for enhancing a drought resistance response, when crops experience a severe drought, like the one that occurred in the Midwest in the summer of 2012.

But the scant differences found so far «offer only slim hope that something useful will come out,» says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists» Chemical and Biological Arms Control Program, who has closely watched the federal investigation.

They dunked mosquito larvae in a pool of water mixed with a chemical called Tween 20, which is useful because it's not toxic and is commonly found in detergents, cosmetics, and hard candy.

One area where this information will be useful is in understanding chemical processes that occur at the surface of water, Johnson noted.

The privately funded Space Studies Institute, which he ran in Princeton, built working models of «mass drivers», electromagnetic launchers for putting payloads into lunar orbit, and commissioned investigations into the most efficient chemical reactions for extracting oxygen and other useful elements from the Moon.

And you can see what the chemicals are up to, especially useful for spotting one of those characteristic colour changes that set chemists» pulses racing.

«There is great interest in 3 - D printing of silicone rubber, or PDMS, which has a number of useful properties,» said Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State.

The role of academic scientists in this process has largely been to explain the genetic / cellular basis of diseases for identifying useful targets and provide new chemical and computational methods to improve the pharmacological profile of potential drugs.

Useful as it is, one of its drawbacks is that it is made using chemicals derived from petroleum.

Yet Mattingly and others insist this sort of analysis is on track to become more meaningful and perhaps useful for individuals in the next two or three years for some better - understood chemicals such as mercury and arsenic.

The study is «a useful step in this effort to develop fully functional tissues with blood vessels,» says chemical engineer Abraham Stroock of Cornell University, who also works on engineering blood vessels in tissue using different techniques.

«Our next goal is to utilize such structurally simple, inexpensive manganese catalysts to target other types of reactions in which CO2 and hydrogen can be converted into useful organic chemicals,» concluded Prof. Khusnutdinova.

«Perfluorinated compounds found in African crocodiles, American alligators: Studies are first - of - their - kind examinations of PFAA levels in «sentinel» reptile species, especially useful for investigating impacts of long - lived chemicals in the environment.»

The rough and ridged structure increases the electrochemical reactivity of the graphene, making it useful for chemical and biological sensors.

This is, in part, because of the very characteristics that make it so interesting: Typically, the constituents of a chemical compound can be determined through spectroscopy, among other tools, but in the case of eumelanin the spectrographs don't show the sharp peaks that are ordinarily useful in identification.

Plants function as chemical manufacturing factories, and they can be altered to make specific chemical compounds, many of which can be useful in ways we do not yet understand.

Importantly, the method works even for chemical elements present at very low concentrations, some of which are particularly useful for unveiling magma history with unprecedented detail.