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Chemistry
A new device uses microwave flow reactions to convert biomass into useful sugars
A simple diagram of the chemical processes within the device developed by the research team. In their system, a solution of the disaccharide cellobiose (left) is passed through a sulfonated carbon catalyst (center), an acid catalyst that helps break down the sugar. This catalyst is then heated using microwaves to increase catalytic activity. This efficiently converts cellobiose to glucose (right).…
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Chemistry
How chemical reactions deplete nutrients in plant-based beverages
Plant-based drinks in the lab. Credit: Jacob Helbig The global market for plant-based beverages has experienced impressive growth over the past decade, during which oat, almond, soy, and rice beverages have emerged as popular alternatives to milk in coffee and oatmeal. A possible reason why millions of liters of plant-based drinks end up in consumers’ shopping carts is because their…
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Chemistry
Establishment of a general theory of metal-support interactions: Advances in catalytic reactions using AI
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How can artificial intelligence (AI) help accelerate scientific discoveries based on vast amounts of experimental data? A new study by Professor Li Weixue’s team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences , we show how this can be achieved with heterogeneous catalysts. The results were published in…
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Nanotechnology
Elucidating material reactions at the nanoscale using AI-based technology
Illustration of a workflow dedicated to detecting and segmenting defects in Cu metal during in-situ ion irradiation of TEM images. Credit: APL Machine Learning (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0186046 Corey Burns, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (UVA), is a materials science researcher who uses artificial intelligence to improve the characterization of materials. In an…
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