News tagged with molecular frameworks


Researchers reshape the future of drug discovery

Chemistry /

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists in Leeds have devised a new way to create the next generation of man-made molecules in a breakthrough that could revolutionise drug development.





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New research could lead to practical uses for metal-organic frameworks

New research could lead to practical uses for metal-organic frameworks

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF).


Chemists at UCLA Design the Least Dense Crystals Known to Man for Applications in Clean Energy

Chemists design world's lowest-density crystals for use in clean energy

Chemistry /

created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 0

Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technologies.


Crystalline sheets produced in covalent organic frameworks (COFs)

New materials for better hydrogen traps

Physics /

created Nov 18, 2005 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Using building blocks that make up ordinary plastics, but putting them together in a whole new way, University of Michigan researchers have created a class of lightweight, rigid polymers they predict will ...


Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation

Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team of scientists, led by a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, have demonstrated - for the first time - that mathematical models created from data obtained by DNA microarrays, can ...


Bigger is not necessarily better -- in hydrogen storage

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 22, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (46) | comments 0

University of Nottingham scientists have made a breakthrough which could help in the development of the next generation of environmentally-friendly cars. Their latest findings on hydrogen storage could be crucial in the development ...


Cellular Construction Methods Emulated

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be useful ...


Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.


Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of ...


New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies

New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 18, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together with very strong hydrogen bonds. These polymers contain ...


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...



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