Sentences with phrase «switching oxygen molecules»

At TU Wien (Vienna), it has become possible to control one of the most important chemical processes: switching oxygen molecules between a reactive and unreactive state.

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At the Vienna University of Technology, it has now been possible to selectively switch individual oxygen molecules sitting on a titanium oxide surface between a non-reactive to a reactive state using a special force microscope.

Also surprisingly, this functional switch is mediated by a single oxygen molecule, which attaches to a single amino acid at a very critical place in IRE - 1 — and this relatively subtle alteration has a dramatic effect.»