How the proteins in our bodies bind together to form protein complexes plays a critical role in numerous cell functions—staving off diseases, for instance, or transporting ions across cell membranes.

† Center for Chemistry of Novel & High-Performance Materials, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China ‡ State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of ...

where λ is the X-ray wavelength (CuKα radiation and equals to 0.154 nm), θ is the Bragg diffraction angle, and β is the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the XRD peak appearing at the diffraction ...

Department of Applied Chemistry and Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Technology, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, 758-65 Bibi, Chitose 066-8655, Japan ...

Ethanol is the psychopharmacologically active ingredient of alcoholic drinks, but in spite of decades of intense preclinical and clinical research, the lack of a precise neurobiological mechanism of ...

SINGAPORE - Petrochemicals giant Shell is stopping the exploration of two projects in Singapore – a biofuels unit and a Group II base oil plant. The biofuels project would have produced low-carbon ...

This paper investigates a metamaterial cylindrical shell with local resonators for broadband longitudinal wave attenuation. A three-component phononic crystal metamaterial cylindrical shell that opens ...

Kirigami—the Japanese art of cutting paper—has become an emergent tool to realize highly stretchable devices and morphable structures. While kirigami structures are fabricated by simply perforating an ...

Text description provided by the architects. A large shell shaped structure finds itself in the middle of the woods. It is hard to determine what exactly the structure is, and unlike the surrounding ...

Japanese architects ARTechnic have completed Shell, a holiday villa in Karuizawa, Japan. The two-storey, concrete house comprises two tubes with oval sections, arranged around a fir tree. The floor is ...