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Mixing oil and water: COST explores sustainable links in energy and water management

08-Jan-2009 - In existing policy frameworks, energy and water policies are largely developed in isolation from one another. Little research is undertaken into the relationships and interactions between energy and water and, most importantly, how those links can be accounted for, and incorporated into, ...

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Multitasking nanotechnology

15-Jul-2008 - Tiny electronically active chemicals can be made to form ordered layers on a surface, thanks to research supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the EUROCORES programne SONS 2 (Self-Organised NanoStructures). These nanostructured layers may one day be used to build the ...

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New understanding of how big molecules bind will lead to better drugs, synthetic organic materials

25-Feb-2008 - Biological and medical research is on the threshold of a new era based on better understanding of how large organic molecules bind together and recognise each other. There is great potential for exploiting the molecular docking processes that are commonplace in all organisms to develop new drugs ...

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Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

20-Feb-2008 - A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of highly inflammable gases such as hydrogen and methane. Europe is aiming to ...

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The Million Euro Nanoreactor

04-Dec-2007 - Jeroen Cornelissen of the Institute for Molecules and Materials at the Radboud University in the Netherlands has recently received EUR 1 million from EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards). The award will allow Cornelissen (35), an assistant professor at Radboud and a member of the scientific ...

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The Fading Memory of Science: ESF joins alliance to preserve science assets of the digital age

19-Nov-2007 - The European Science Foundation (ESF) is joining forces with 11 knowledge-based organisations to form an alliance for the establishment of European infrastructure which helps preserving and providing permanent access to digital scientific information. The information is currently stored in ...

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20 researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards in Helsinki

25-Sep-2007 - Twenty young researchers, who have been selected by high-level scientific peer review, will gather in Helsinki to receive awards of as much as EUR1.2 million from the fourth and final Call of the European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) scheme. These awards will allow the researchers to create ...

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