Organ models, which are cultivated in the laboratory from human stem cells and grow into living tissue, are one of the most important scientific breakthroughs…
The African cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis, a major agricultural pest, is widespread, especially in the Mediterranean. It feeds on a broad range of host…
Changing from injection molding to expansion injection molding requires a costly change of equipment. Scientists at Ostfalia University of Applies Sciences and Volkswagen AG developed a simple and cost-effective way to convert injection molding into expansion molding by simply exchanging the dosing system of current machines.
In Iceland, heat is extracted for use in power plants directly from the ground in volcanic areas. Constructing a geothermal power station near a volcano can be…
As we get older, our brain mobilises additional capacity whenever it is particularly challenged. According to the current paradigm, the aging brain makes use…
Many diseases and injuries result in a loss of nerve cells. Scientists are working on tackling this challenge by transplanting neurons. In Parkinson’s disease,…
The membrane of a cell is composed of a lipid bilayer. Lipids are good chemical and electrical insulators, which are ideally suited to separating the inside of…
Academic and industry partners from nine different countries join forces to achieve the ambitious goals of the project which has started at the beginning of…
As self-evident as it is that matter exists, its origins are just as mysterious. According to the principles of particle physics, when the universe was…
Reckless driving, binge drinking, drug taking—it is well known that adolescents are more likely than adults to engage in risky and impulsive behavior. A study…
Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 “gene scissors” is a powerful tool for biological discovery and for identifying novel drug targets. In pooled CRISPR screens,…
As water scarcity increases, one of the major global challenges today is finding a way to sustainably use this vital resource, particularly in agriculture….
Worldwide, around 60 per cent of the 500 known primate species are threatened with extinction. Primates live in tropical and subtropical areas and are mainly…
An important step towards a completely new experimental access to quantum physics has been made at University of Konstanz. The team of scientists headed by…
Currently, there are only very few, costly synthetic routes for the production of ultra long-chain compounds, as they typically rely on tedious multistep reaction sequences.
At the University of Konstanz (in the course of a project funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation), an iterative method (any multiplication factor) has been developed that produces terminally functionalized, purely aliphatic compounds through a ‘Chain Doubling’ approach starting from common monounsaturated fatty acids. All starting materials are readily available and the individual steps of the catalytic process do not involve further reagents. Moreover, there is only a small amount of byproducts which makes the method very efficient.
The method described here can be applied for the production of high-melting, purely aliphatic polymers and nanocrystals.
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a new platform concept for the formulation of highly conductive, printable pastes has been developed. Corresponding pastes are free of polymeric or other non-volatile stabilizers and rheology control agents. Nevertheless, rheological properties like low-shear viscosity and yield stress can be adjusted in a wide range. Thus sedimentation /aggregation is prohibited and long-term stability can be guaranteed even for suspensions of high density particles (e.g. Ag, Ni). Also full control of the application behavior in many different printing/coating operations is furnished.
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