New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

Aug 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators recently developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, a valuable fuel,...

Unleashing a new era of color tunable nano-devices

Aug 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) While nanocrystals offer color tunability and are used in various technologies, achieving different colors requires using different nanocrystals for each color, and dynamic switching between colors has not been possible. A team of Researchers at the Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nanoscience and...

On-off switch for enzymes

Aug 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Light affects living organisms in many different ways: for example, plants orient their growth direction towards the sun, while circadian rhythms in humans are controlled by daylight. These processes always involve photoreceptors, which are proteins that can sense different colours and intensities of light. 10,000-fold...

New building blocks for chemistry

Aug 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Sandwich compounds are special chemical compounds used as basic building blocks in organometallic chemistry. So far, their structure has always been linear. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Marburg were the first to make stacked sandwich complexes form a...