New Insights Into the Hydrogen Bonding of Hydrogen Sulphide

What do ice cubes in a drink have to do with the smell of grandma's famous egg salad?

15-Nov-2024 - Water and the bad smelling molecule hydrogen sulphide do not seem to have a lot in common at first sight. However, when investing a little energy, some differences disappear. At first glance, the ice cube in your soft drink and the smell of grandma’s famous egg salad don’t seem to have much in ...

Protein reactions identified with subatomic resolution

08-Oct-2015 - Using subatomic resolution, researchers have gained insights into the dynamic modus operandi of two switch proteins which are responsible for the import of compounds into the nucleus and for cell growth. The team headed by Prof Dr Klaus Gerwert from the Department of Biophysics at the ...

Processes at the Surface of Catalysts

Using Infrared Spectroscopy, Scientists Detect that Oxygen Defects Act as Active Centers

12-Apr-2012 - In chemical industry, heterogeneous catalysis is of crucial importance to the manufacture of basic or fine chemicals, in catalytic converters of exhaust gas, or for the chemical storage of solar energy. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have ...