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Designer MOFs: Algorithm calculates likely frameworks

Date: Nov 7, 2011

Author: David Bradley

US researchers have developed a computational algorithm to construct all conceivable metal organic frameworks (MOFs) from a library of building blocks and to rapidly screen them for optimal methane storage capacity. X-ray diffraction was used to characterise one of the most promising of the materials. The approach could have applications in developing gas storage materials, catalysts and sensors.

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"Quasi" science wins Nobel: crystal prize

Date: Oct 15, 2011

Author: David Bradley

Quasicrystals have earned Israeli scientist Danny Shechtman the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011. Shechtman was studying aluminium alloys in the 1980s using transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction, when he discovered a forbidden tenfold symmetry pattern in the materials sample.

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Journal Highlight: Application of X-ray fluorescence to turbulent mixing

Date: Oct 10, 2011

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Combined measurements of X-ray absorption and fluorescence have been performed in jets of pure and diluted argon gas to demonstrate the feasibility of using X-ray fluorescence to study turbulent mixing.

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Fish tales: marine molecule with antiviral bite

Date: Oct 1, 2011

Author: David Bradley

Synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering has been used to study details of squalamine, a molecule found in the dog fish, that has now been shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral properties in addition to previously known medicinal effects.

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Close encounters: The bacterial kind

Date: Sep 15, 2011

Author: David Bradley

A new crystal structure reveals unprecedented detail of the interaction between bacterium and cell surface as the two come into close proximity.

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Journal Highlight: A miniature X-ray tube approach to measuring lead in bone using L-XRF

Date: Sep 12, 2011

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A miniature X-ray tube and silicon PiN diode detector were used to measure lead in bone phantoms by L-line X-ray fluorescence, using phantoms made from plaster of Paris dosed with lead and with an outer layer of resin to mimic soft tissue overlying bone.

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Nitrous: Cracking the cycle

Date: Sep 1, 2011

Author: David Bradley

The greenhouse gas nitrous oxide undergoes partial decomposition depending on environmental conditions. Now, researchers in Germany have determined the structure of an enzyme, N2O-reductase, that breaks down the gas, which reveals the surprising presence of four copper atoms and two sulfur atoms, as opposed to one, at its active centre.

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Nice and nano does it: Particulate improvements to alloys

Date: Aug 15, 2011

Author: David Bradley

Diffraction, microscopy and theoretical calculations have all been combined to show how aluminium nanoparticles alter the alloy matrix in which they are embedded. The study could lead to approaches for making tunable materials for engineering, construction and aeronautics based on nanotechnology.

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Journal Highlight: Hard X-ray Fourier transform holography from an array of oriented referenced objects

Date: Aug 8, 2011

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Hard X-ray Fourier transform holography, a promising method for imaging nanoscale objects including biological molecules, has been improved by using an array of oriented objects, each with its own reference, to increase the inherent low scattering intensities.

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Astrovirus structure: X-rayed star

Date: Aug 1, 2011

Author: David Bradley

X-ray crystallography reveals the structure of a common virus that causes juvenile diarrhoea, astrovirus, hinting at the development of potential drugs for this often lethal illness.

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