Ceria nanoparticles catalyze reactions for cleaner-fuel future
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14-Mar-2005
Moving electrons at the molecular and nanometer scales
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for a wide variety of applications, including more efficient ways of storing and using solar energy. Marshall Newton, a theoretical chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, will present a talk at the 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society highlighting the theoretical techniques used to understand electron movement.
- Funder
- US Department of Energy's Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences (DE-SC0021008), Geosciences and Biosciences
- Meeting
- American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting
13-Mar-2005
Scientists create, study methane hydrates in 'ocean floor' lab
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of methane-hydrates, an abundant but currently out-of-reach source of natural gas trapped within sediments below the ocean floor. A talk outlining the use of the apparatus will be given at the 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
- Funder
- US Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy
- Meeting
- American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting
1-Mar-2005
New, nondestructive soil-analysis device measures carbon, more, in situ
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
With funding assistance
from DOE's Office of Science
and the National Energy
Technology Laboratory, Lucian
Wielopolski of the Environmental
Sciences Department (ES) has
developed a device that can
measure carbon and other elements
in soils non-destructively
and in situ.
24-Jan-2005
Following nature's lead, scientists seek better catalysts
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Those seeking to design more efficient catalysts for the production of hydrogen and the control of air pollutants might do well to take a closer look at how chemistry works in nature, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory say. Their theoretical investigations of a bacterial enzyme reveal a catalytic complex with higher predicted chemical reactivity than that of industrial catalysts currently in use.
- Journal
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
14-Jan-2005
Floating films on liquid mercury
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and discovered that the molecules form ordered structures. Similar to sixty years ago when fundamental studies of silicon paved the way to the semiconductor-electronics age, these results help to build a foundation for the development of tiny circuits built using organic molecules -- called molecular electronics -- a field believed to be the future of many electronic applications.
- Funder
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, US Department of Energy's Office of Science
14-Jan-2005
Copper vs. copper at the relativistic heavy ion collider
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang and eager to study its properties have begun using a new experimental probe, collisions between two beams of copper ions.
- Funder
- US Department of Energy's Office of Science/Office of Nuclear Physics
28-Dec-2004
New technique for tracking gene regulators
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Finding out where gene-regulator proteins bind to DNA and identifying the genes they regulate just got a step easier thanks to a new technique developed by scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The technique could greatly speed the process of unraveling the role these proteins play in turning on and off the genes that establish the very identity of cells -- be they brain cells, liver, or blood -- as well as what might go awry in certain conditions like cancer.
- Journal
- Cell
- Funder
- US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research; National Institutes of Health; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
15-Nov-2004
Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A second, small-scale clinical trial of a proposed addiction treatment originally investigated at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced favorable results in the treatment of long-term addiction to methamphetamine and/or cocaine, with no visual side effects in any of the 30 patients enrolled. This research on vigabatrin (a.k.a. gamma vinyl GABA, or GVG) is published in the February 2005 issue of Synapse, now available online.
- Journal
- Synapse
- Funder
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research; NSF Long-term Ecological Research Program; NSF FSML, NYU School of Medicine Biochemical Psychiatry Fund; Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners; NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse; US Department of Energy Office of Science
9-Nov-2004
Identifying the path to infection
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have determined the two-dimensional crystal structure of a membrane protein involved in the process by which the Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria infects a human. This protein structure is a first step to better understanding how an E. coli infection begins, which may lead to information on how to block it.
- Journal
- Journal of Molecular Biology
- Funder
- US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Brookhaven Laboratory Directed Research and Development grant, National Institutes of Health