Proteins – the molecular machines that drive the processes underlying biology – are made from just 20 canonical building blocks called amino acids. For nearly two decades, scientists have sought methods to engineer new amino acids to build proteins. A team of Boston College chemists have developed a technology to precisely incorporate a range of…
Mixed Halide Chemistry can be Used to Control Magnetism in Ultrathin Magnetic Devices
Physicists, chemists, and materials scientists have been probing the nature of layered magnetic materials for several decades, searching for clues to the properties of these materials that are more complex than they appear. Layered material resembles the structure of a book. From a distance, it looks like a solid three-dimensional object but when examined more…
Imitation Photosynthesis Offers New Energy Solutions
Looking for new solutions to more efficiently harvest and store solar energy, scientists from the U.S. and China have synthesized a new, dual-atom catalyst to serve as a platform for artificial photosynthesis, the team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team developed an iridium catalyst with only two active metal…