Sentences with phrase «organic molecules made»

Proteins are organic molecules made up of amino acids (the building blocks of life).

Early in 1969, Snyder and Buhl set up shop at NRAO's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and chose their first target: formaldehyde, an organic molecule made up of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom tethered to an atom of carbon.

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There can still be local decreases in entropy, as happens with all living organisms while they are still alive and in some other situations as, for example, when complex organic molecules are made from their constituent atoms in outer space, as now seems to be the case.

Though all my work required the making of new molecules, individual projects ranged from designing organic compounds that control the reactivity of metal ions to generating conductive polymers for lithium - ion batteries.

It was a color that both men knew well — the color of complex polymers made up of organic molecules.

Or perhaps, he says, formation models need to be adjusted to make it easier for larger building blocks to grow in the outer solar system where comets form and where ice and organic molecules could assist in the sticking.

David Leigh at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and colleagues wove the pentafoil using «needles» made of positively charged iron ions attached to long, skinny organic - molecule «threads».

Biochemist Lars Thelander at the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: «Palladium - catalyzed cross-coupling has made it possible to synthesize carbon based molecules, for example, new medicines, agricultural chemicals and organic compounds used in the electronics industry.»

That radiation could make ice act like a liquid and help organic molecules form in space.

Fischer used his growing toolbox last year to make a molecule that was predicted more than half a century ago but unachievable using standard organic chemistry in solution.

Known for their exceptional porosity that enables the trapping or transport of molecules, metal - organic frameworks (MOFs) take the form of a powder, which makes them difficult to format.

The MOF under study was made up of pyramidal molecular frameworks, each consisting of a zinc atom surrounded by four cyclical, organic molecules called imidazolates.

Four of the seven peptides made amyloids that could break down organic molecules called esters (Nature Chemistry, doi.org/rxf).

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope have made the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile, an intriguing organic molecule that helps to chemically link simple carbon - based molecules and truly massive ones known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

In their experiments, the researchers made use of DXP, the organic molecule which is a red dye of the same type as once used by Ferrari for their famous Testarossa.

«The only thing an organic chemist usually gets to do with a plant is grind it up, find some sort of interesting molecule in there, and then try to make it.

They have also found components used to make DNA, the molecule that carries the instructions for how to build and regulate a living organism, as well as other biologically important molecules like nitrogen heterocycles, sugar - related organic compounds, and compounds found in modern metabolism.

In a paper released in the November 14, 2016 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, Repeta and colleagues at the University of Hawaii found that much of the ocean's dissolved organic matter is made up of novel polysaccharides — long chains of sugar molecules created by photosynthetic bacteria in the upper ocean.

The new study determined that much of the ocean's dissolved organic matter is made up of novel polysaccharides — long chains of sugar molecules created by photosynthetic bacteria in the upper ocean.

The craft is designed to dig into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and organic compounds, the carbon - rich molecules that make life on Earth possible.

Justin Johnson, also a senior scientist at NREL, said the process is similar to MEG, except that it uses organic molecules — compounds made from carbon — instead of semiconductors.

«Making organic molecules in hydrothermal vents in the absence of life.»

«The abundance of organics and their role in getting life started may make a big, big difference between a giant universe with a lot of life, and one with very little,» says Scott Sandford of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, who studies organic molecules from space.

The researchers tested a variety of solutions containing the soil bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens and Thiobacillus denitrificans, which thrive by eating acetate (an organic compound that makes vinegar sour) and nitrate (a negatively - charged molecule of biologically available nitrogen and oxygen), respectively, when they can find a spare electron or two.

Organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and organic solar cells use thin films of organic molecules for the electrically active materials, making flexible and low - cost devices possible.

The newly deposited calcite matches the orientation of the existing crystals, and organic molecules that harden calcite make it even tougher than the original rock, the scientists report in the April issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

When phytoplankton use carbon dioxide to make new cells, a substantial portion of that cellular material is released into the sea as a buffet of edible molecules collectively called «dissolved organic carbon.»

At the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting here earlier this month, he proposed that chemists rally around an initiative to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products: the diverse small molecules made by microbes, plants, and animals.

According to Craig Hawker of University of California, Santa Barbara, US, the research might change the way chemists make and break covalent bonds, giving them a new paradigm for preparing organic molecules.»

Washington, DC — A team of scientists including Carnegie's Tim Strobel and Venkata Bhadram now report unexpected quantum behavior of hydrogen molecules, H2, trapped within tiny cages made of organic...

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

In 1998 Aizenberg joined Bell Labs as a member of the Technical Staff where she has made several pioneering contributions including developing new biomimetic approaches for the synthesis of ordered mineral films with highly controlled shapes and orientations, and discovering unique optical systems formed by organisms (microlenses and optical fibers) that outshine technological analogs, and characterized the associated organic molecules.

A partial list would include the Patterson function, isomorphous replacement, and anomalous scattering, which enabled the determination of organic structures; direct (i.e., purely computational) methods of phase determination, which enabled small - molecule crystallography to be almost totally automated; synchrotron radiation and area detectors, which together made it possible to collect data on macromolecular structures in hours instead of months; and automatic interpretation of electron density maps.

Also, in space beyond our solar system, there have been found organic molecules with bonds of carbon and oxygen which make up amino acids.

An organic (if toxic) alcohol could point the way toward finding more «handed» molecules — the kind that make up RNA, DNA, and other building blocks to life.

This discovery is momentous because dwarf galaxies like the LMC tend to have a lower abundance of the heavy elements that make up complex organic molecules — most importantly, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

You should have a passion for medicinal chemistry and enjoy and excel at making molecules using modern methods of organic synthesis.

A large portion of secondary organic aerosols - tiny particles in the air we breathe that contribute to cloud formation and precipitation - arise from a combination of man - made pollution and molecules given off by plant matter.

Scientists expect Bennu to hold vital clues to the origin of water and organic molecules that may have made their way to Earth, eventually creating conditions needed for life to exist.

A feature article in the same issue of Science provides a perspective on this research «The Synthesis Machine: An automatic device that makes small organic molecules could revolutionize drug discovery» (full text courtesy of Burke Lab).)

The typical design of a perovskite solar cell sandwiches the perovskite between a hole transport material, a thin film of an organic molecule called spiro - OMeTAD that's doped with lithium ions and an electron transport layer made of titanium dioxide, or TiO2.

Measurements made by NASA's late - great Cassini probe indicate the presence of life - sustaining chemicals within the plume, including organic and nitrogen - bearing molecules, salts, silicates, and molecular hydrogen.

Scientists expect Bennu may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of the water and organic molecules that may have made their way to Earth.

The O.G., the reigning champion, the most common, most widely used, most well - researched: creatine monohydrate, so called because it's made by binding creatine (an organic acid) with one molecule of water.

Our Argan Oil naturally has a smaller molecule size to better penetrate the skin, and is made with only pure, organic argan oil.

A process known as chelation can help to combine minerals with organic molecules, to make minerals easier to digest.

Each of these research samples is a small organic solar panel made from different molecules, with varying degrees of transparency to visible light.