Carbon nanotubes glow brighter in the presence of neurotransmitters. This facilitates the easy and accurate measurement of signals between nerve cells.
Nature: RESOLV PI Prof. B. List reports the development of broadly applicable confined organocatalysts for the highly enantioselective cyanosilylation of aromatic and aliphatic ketones.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: Two RESOLV members Prof. L. Gooßen and Prof. S. Waldvogel's study introduces the effective electrochemical synthesis of concentrated peroxodicarbonate solutions and their potential use as platform oxidizers was clearly demonstrated in transformations including sulfoxidation, N-oxidation, and epoxidation.
A new method can measure the electrical (re-)charging of boundary layers between very small, metallic particles and aqueous solutions and understand it at a molecular level.
Research into promising materials is hampered by the sheer number of possible candidates. A German-Danish team has developed an efficient method to solve this problem.
J. Chem. Theory Comput.: RESOLV researchers, led by Prof. Marx, Prof. Neese, and Prof. Kast, joined their expertise of Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics, Coupled Cluster Electronic Structure Methods, and Liquid-State Theory to accurately compute isotropic hyperfine constants of nitroxide probes in water.