by Charlie Smith | Mar 19, 2024 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS) data from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and the parallelepiped structure of CNCs and ionic shells surrounding them Nanocellulose, which is cellulose in nanostructure form that can be...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Schematic of proteins constructed from the Gal-3 carbo-hydrate recognition domain (CRD). WT Gal-3 contains one CRD bound to an N-terminal domain that promotes oligomeric assembly. Several engineered variants were tested, including a truncated Gal-3...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge (a) Chemical reduction of TP to afford the radical-anions, (b) coordination of TP– with K+, Rb+, and Cs+ ions. From Z. Zhou and M.A. Petrukhin, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 486 (2023) 215144. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Planar and...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Upon 70º C thermal exposure, MOF-encapsulated BSA remains folded while native BSA unfolds. From R. Murty et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society It has been hypothesized that the confinement of...
by Charlie Smith | Apr 6, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Heterobimetallic cofactors (i.e., a metal complex having two different metal atoms) have been discovered in a number of proteins responsible for life-sustaining chemical transformations. Since their discovery, heterobimetallic cofactors have piqued...
by Charlie Smith | Apr 6, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Solvent extraction, also known as liquid–liquid extraction or partitioning, is a method to separate a compound based on the solubility of its parts using two liquids that don’t mix, for example water and an organic solvent. Solvent extraction has a...
