Author Archive for: David Bradley (472)

Tuning Up for Drug Release

Tuning Up for Drug Release

A novel drug delivery mechanism based on polymeric meshes uses air as a barrier to control the rate at which drug is released

What Do Solvents Do?

What Do Solvents Do?

Stereoselectively deuterated group can probe the behavior of solvent molecules during self-assembly processes

Gold Promotes Green Coupling

Gold Promotes Green Coupling

Gold nanoparticles promote the aerobic oxidative coupling of amines to alcohols or aldehydes to make useful amides

Copper Spots Histidine

Copper Spots Histidine

Simple coordination complex of copper acts as efficient, selective fluorescent sensor for histidine in aqueous solution at neutral pH

Modifying MOFs in the Vapor Phase

Modifying MOFs in the Vapor Phase

Introducing chelating groups into metal-organic frameworks by vapor-phase post-synthetic modification boosts their catalytic potential

Uniquely Fluorescent

Uniquely Fluorescent

New class of near-infrared fluorescent molecules can be used in imaging of living animals without damaging tissue

Carbon Monoxide Promotion

Carbon Monoxide Promotion

CO usually poisons catalytic reactions - Dutch team demonstrates that it can promote the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst

Cholesterol Sludge

Cholesterol Sludge

Statistical mechanics provids new insights into behavior of cholesterol/phospholipid mixtures in cell membranes