Science news articles about 'speed chemical reactions'

  • Synthetic molecules emulate enzyme behavior for the first time

    ... -- they often turn to catalysts, molecules that speed chemical reactions. Many jobs require highly specialized ... reactions to work, molecules must be able to fit a catalyst like a hand fits a glove," ...
  • A light bulb and a few chemicals

    ... been impossible yet now should be easy to make. Catalysis, the speeding up or sometimes the slowing down of the rate of a chemical reaction, is caused by the addition of some substance that does not ...
  • Without enzyme, biological reaction essential to life takes 2.3 billion years

    ... inhibitors that are used to treat HIV infection. "We've only begun to understand how to speed up reactions with chemical catalysts, and no one has even come within shouting distance of producing, or ...
  • More efficient fuel-cells, thanks to a new catalyst

    ... being the development of new catalysts, i.e. substances that are responsible for accelerating the chemical reaction required for electricity to be produced. It is in here that José E. Barranco’s ...
  • Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine

    ... than 100,000 different kinds in the human body, form every cell, make up the immune system and set the speed of chemical reactions. We know many proteins' genetic sequence, but don't ...
  • Magnet Lab researchers make observing cell functions easier

    ... a single cell -- a key to understanding how different proteins and enzymes (the biomolecules that cause chemical reactions) work together to complete the daily chores that help cells grow and divide. ...
  • New technique measures ultrashort laser pulses at focus

    ... applications including micromachining, microscopy, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy and controlling chemical reactions. But the quality of the results is limited by distortions caused by lenses and ...
  • The photonic beetle

    ... goal – still years away – is an ultrahigh-speed computer with optical integrated circuits or chips ... efficient, to capture light that would catalyze chemical reactions, and to generate tiny laser beams ...
  • Perfecting a solar cell by adding imperfections

    ... electricity. In addition, a separate film made of platinum acts as a catalyst to speed the chemical reactions involved. Both of these materials have disadvantages, though. The oxide films can't ...
  • Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought

    ... or molecule within range, trying to form a chemical bond. What Zare and his team ... "What we are really seeing is the result of a frustrated chemical reaction," Zare said. "The molecule wants to react. ...
  • Quantum chaos unveiled?

    ... chaos theory describes how weather, certain chemical reactions, planetary orbits, subatomic particles ... specific particle in a specific place with a specific speed at a specific time become blurry," Saam ...
  • Turning waste material into ethanol

    ... of other undesirable products." A catalyst is a material that facilitates and speeds up a chemical reaction without chemically changing the catalyst itself. In studying the chemical reactions in ...
  • Catalyst mystery unlocked

    ... also suggests a method for designing new catalysts. Catalysts are molecules that speed up chemical reactions without participating in them. Thousands of industrial and biological processes rely on ...
  • From sugar to gasoline

    ... a watery slurry of plant-derived sugar and carbohydrates over a series of catalysts-materials that speed up reactions without sacrificing themselves in the process-carbon-rich organic molecules split ...
  • Volcanoes may have provided sparks and chemistry for first life

    ... -- used in everything from structures like hair and nails to processes that speed up, facilitate, and regulate chemical reactions. The spark provided the energy for the molecules to recombine into ...

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