Routes to making life-saving medications and other pharmaceutical compounds are among the most carefully protected trade secrets in global industry. Building on recent work programming compu... Read more
Ruthless with bacteria, harmless to human cells. New, durable antibacterial coatings of nanocomposites, developed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in... Read more
A masterly use of chemistry and physics A little amount of appropriately prepared powder is poured in water polluted with phenol and cellulose. A bit of the sun and after fifteen minutes har... Read more
Can a device with a footprint not larger than half of a desktop produce power a few dozen times higher than that generated by all nuclear power stations worldwide? A compact new generation o... Read more
“Our measurements are a bucket of cold water for designers of molecular nanomachines” An innovative measurement method was used at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy o... Read more
Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science... Read more
An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new powe... Read more
The new method does not require any specialized equipment and can be implemented in any laboratory. Considered by many as the most promising material of the future, graphene still remains an... Read more
A new class of organic substances — discovered by scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Chemistry of the University o... Read more