Iron oxide crystal phase governs how efficiently organophosphate ester pollutants hydrolyze, with lepidocrocite showing the ...

Rolls of brightly colored plastic. After it is used and discarded, polylactic acid could be used as a feedstock for making the amino acid alanine. Credit: Shutterstock One of the simpler amino acids, ...

Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is widely distributed in human tissues, although its physiological roles remain incompletely defined. It contributes modestly to cholinergic transmission and participates ...

Generating energy from renewable sources instead of fossil resources is pivotal for realizing a sustainable and carbon-neutral society. At present, biomass-derived transportation fuels have been ...

While protein design is experiencing a period of rapid development and advancement, there’s one particularly challenging class of proteins that’s giving researchers a hard time: enzymes. Now ...

1 College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 2 Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou, China. 3 Central Glass Chemspec Company Ltd., Quzhou, China.

Centre for Membrane separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy for sustainable solutions (cMACS), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium In order to deal with legacy additives in plastic waste streams, ...

Oxidation of saturated C−H bonds is a key chemical reaction in synthetic chemistry and chemical industry. Nevertheless, the high bond dissociation energies (BDEs) and weak polarity of C(sp 3)−H bonds, ...

Scientists have created an enzyme that incorporates boronic acid, which enhances its catalytic power and selectivity through directed evolution, offering a more sustainable alternative to traditional ...