Nov 19, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class of catalysts with a wide range of applications, according to an international team of researchers. hBN is a layered material...
Single-atom dimer electrocatalyst for green hydrogen production
Nov 19, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The limited reservoir of fossils fuels and the ever-increasing threats of climate change have encouraged researchers to develop alternative technologies to produce eco-friendly fuels. Green hydrogen generated from the electrolysis of water using renewable electricity is considered a next-generation renewable energy source for the future....
Novel artificial genomic DNA can replicate and evolve outside the cell
Nov 19, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Professor Norikazu Ichihashi and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA, characteristic of all life, and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins for the first time (ACS Synthetic...