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Growing concerns about fuel security and global warming have made the development and use of sustainable (low carbon) sources of energy an ...
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Spherulites are roughly spherical structures, and their name derives from the Greek for ‘ball’ and ‘stone’. Spherulites occur in various forms in ...
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Templates are widely used to arrange molecular components so that they can be covalently linked to generate complex molecules that are not readily ...
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Inorganic-organic frameworks, particularly metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), have attracted considerable attention over the last decade because ...
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A range of techniques have been used to show that the behaviour of the superconductivity in LiFeAs is quite different from that in the other iron ...
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Crystalline porous solids, such as aluminosilicate zeolites have achieved widespread use in commercial processes of adsorption and catalysis. ...
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The alteration shown by silver leaf applied to polychrome carved wood and altarpieces to imitate metal objects (arms, garments, tools and ...
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Combinatorial high-throughput screening at Diamond may prove useful in discovering novel bulk hydrogen storage materials, according to new ...
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Scientists from Diamond Light Source, the Universities of Reading, Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London have used the Diamond ...
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In general, the antibiotics that are prescribed by your GP work. Complete the prescribed course and your symptoms have gone. But in some cases, ...
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Virus infections in a number of insect families generally culminate in the occlusion of between one and several thousand virus particles within ...
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The structure determination of biomolecules, in particular of DNA and of proteins, is of utmost importance to understand their function in ...
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In muscle, assembly of ordered striated myofibrils requires the integration of hundreds of protein subunits in a sequential, regulated way by ...
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Transposons are pieces of DNA that can jump from one place to another in the genome of a cell and they make up a surprisingly large proportion of ...
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X-ray reflectivity (XRR) is a non-destructive technique widely used for thin layered materials characterization. The brilliance achieved by third ...
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Monocrystalline diamond films with several metal contacts were characterized as radiation detectors in terms of responsivity as a function of ...
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Nicotinamidase catalyzes hydrolysis of nicotinamide to nicotinic acid and ammonia, in the NAD(+) salvage pathway. This enzyme activity has a ...
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A polar phase of the perovskite NaNbO3 has been successfully synthesised using sol-gel techniques. Detailed characterisation of this phase has ...
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Axons are the communication channels of the body. Up to a metre in length, they connect parts of the body to the brain, carrying signals from ...
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The regulation of the alternative splicing of messenger RNA allows mammals and other eukaryotic organisms to greatly enrich the diversity of the ...