Sentences with phrase «organic molecules using»

Another new feature on ExoMars is the rover's capacity for extracting organic molecules using a high - power ultraviolet laser.

Richard Heck, Ei - ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of new ways to synthesize complex organic molecules using palladium - catalyzed cross-couplings.

Normally electrons pair up and cancel out each other's magnetism, but Hicks says the organic molecules used in the experiment were selected because they can tolerate extra electrons.

But they store only about 1 % of the energy they soak up, locking it into the sugars and other organic molecules they use to build their cells.

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One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

These special organic molecules are known as mineral amino acid chelates; they are used in nutraceutical supplements and...

During photosynthesis, plants use the sun's light energy to build useful organic molecules.

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a rotating ring containing large organic molecules around a protostar.

OLED screens use organic molecules that emit light when an electric current is applied.

When I was at Bell Labs, I was surrounded by amazing organic chemists who could cook up all kinds of interesting polymers and organic molecules that we could use to build transistors.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

This latest study looked at how the soft element arsenic interacts with thorium, because arsenic could in principle be used in organic molecules that bond to metal atoms and improve extraction processes.

The team traced the molecules found in these air samples to their original sources using databases that show the specific volatile organic compounds released by specific products.

Other groups are looking at using a single organic molecule, strung between two electrodes, as a transistor.

Over the last decade, researchers adapted STMs to probe organic molecules and to build simple devices using atoms like Lego blocks.

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.»

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

Amines are used widely in bioactive molecules, drugs, and various organic materials, and preparing them is one of the most important tasks for synthetic chemists in both academia and industry.

Recently Berkeley Lab scientists used this method to calculate the absorption spectrum and confirm what several experimental results have been hinting — that the element berkelium breaks form with its heavy element peers by taking on an extra positive charge when bound to a synthetic organic molecule.

Using the same principle, researchers today replace protons with deuterons in organic compounds, to pin down the way molecules are arranged in, for example, thin films.

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.

It can reveal details of the minerals inside rocks, and so what the micro-environment for life is, but we can also use it to detect organic molecules and signs of life itself.»

As an organic molecule, the researchers used an azo dye that consists of two carbon rings with attached functional groups that are polar, i.e. slightly positively or negatively charged.

They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to trigger the formation of the backbone molecule, 2 - deoxy - D - ribose, of DNA.

He searches for organics in dinosaur fossils by using heat to break down molecules into volatile components and running them through a mass spectrometer.

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.

Using the energy of the sun, they break the water molecules apart and use the hydrogen to create organic compounds like carbohydrates, leaving oxygen behind as a by - product.

The latter focuses on zeolites and metal — organic frameworks: sponge - like materials with regularly repeating holes in their crystal structures that can trap gas molecules and could be used to store methane or carbon dioxide.

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.

In her paper, Millstone describes using small organic molecules to «glue» an alloy in place, so that the two components stay mixed.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, a theoretical chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues, used computational models to screen a family of organic molecules and identify those likely to be the best semiconductors.

The results are encouraging for Aspuru - Guzik, who, in collaboration with computer giant IBM, is using the same computational tools to screen some 3.5 million organic molecules in the search for a new generation of flexible and lightweight solar cells.

Appending light - sensitive organic molecules to a membrane channel creates a photically reversible valve that can control permeation, of possible use in drug delivery.

Within a month, using novel organic molecules as markers, he and Malcolm had bagged several dozen genes — a new record.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

The lower cost is due to the battery's active materials being inexpensive organic molecules, compared to the commodity metals used in today's flow batteries.

To arrive at these findings, the researchers tested a number of molecules that are also used within organic solar cell research at Chalmers.

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.

A scanning probe method, dip - pen nanolithography (DPN), can be used to pattern monolayers of different organic molecules down to a 5 - nanometer separation.

The research team recently succeeded for the first time in precisely controlling the transition temperature of superconducting atomic layers using organic molecules.

For such applications it is important to be able to tailor the pore structure of the material and until now this has been achieved by using organic template molecules or swelling agents that need to be removed at high temperatures before the material can be used.

In a different patent granted in August 2013, Bara proposed switching currently used chemicals with a class of low volatility organic molecules.

Instead of using free - floating nutrients in the water, Repeta says, DeLong's study showed that the microbes must somehow be able to crack into nitrogen and phosphorus hidden deep inside organic molecules.

In Hud's laboratory, for instance, researchers used cycles of alternating wet and dry conditions to create complex organic molecules over time.

A research team led by Shunsuke Yoshizawa, ICYS researcher, NIMS, Takashi Uchihashi, leader of the Surface Quantum Phase Materials Group, MANA, NIMS, Emi Minamitani, assistant professor, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Toshihiko Yokoyama, professor, IMS, NINS, and Kazuyuki Sakamoto, professor, Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, succeeded in precisely controlling the transition temperature of atomic - scale - thick superconductors using magnetic organic molecules.

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.

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.

Chemists often use nucleophilic additions in organic synthesis to turn molecules with double bonds into more functionalised compounds.

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.»