Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes
Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes Summary This Nature article reports a new, general approach to prepare highly enantioenriched alkylidenecyclopropanes (ACPs) using a bifunctional iminophosphorane (BIMP) catalysed, stereo-controlled, strain-relieving deconjugation. Small…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico and several U.S. regions are increasingly relying on home batteries, often paired with rooftop solar, to…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne have developed a new class of…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system was deployed in the deep sea to collect near real-time 3D visual data…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A News & Views piece by Igor Bargatin highlights a new Nature paper (Schafer et al.) that demonstrates centimetre-scale, nano-engineered perforated…
Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions
Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions Summary Quantum theory explains vast swathes of physics, but it has never been reconciled experimentally with Einstein’s classical…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can momentarily levitate using sunlight alone. The design builds on the photophoretic effect…