香蕉视频 chemistry professors Karine Auclair and Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰聽are following a promising lead on using聽enzymes to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one of the world鈥檚 most widely used plastics.
Published on: 4 Sep 2018
The runaway popularity of personal electronic devices has led to a huge global demand for compact yet powerful rechargeable batteries. Since hitting the market in the 1990s, lithium-ion technology has taken the lead in meeting this need.
But concerns over the relative scarcity of lithium and the toxicity of other common lithium-ion battery ingredients such as cobalt are driving the search for an alternative. Sodium, around 1000 times more abundant than lithium, could be the answer.
Published on: 27 Aug 2018
A fundamental component of protein, nitrogen is the most common pure element on Earth, making up nearly 80 percent of our atmosphere. Yet despite its abundance, atmospheric nitrogen cannot enter the food chain without first being converted into a form that can be used by plants.
Published on: 20 Aug 2018
香蕉视频 chemistry professor Matthew Harrington is aiming to develop a renewable alternative to petrochemical plastics by mimicking the astonishing chemistry of the velvet worm 鈥撀燼 creature that has made a name for itself through its projectile slime.
Inhabiting the forest floors of Australia and South America, velvet worms catch their prey by shooting out a jet of liquid that rapidly thickens to a sticky gel before hardening into polymer fibres comparable in stiffness to nylon.
Published on: 13 Aug 2018
The (LHC) at the (CERN), the most massive and complex science experiment in human history, is a prime example of global achievement through collaboration. Driven by a multinational community of researchers, engineers, and technicians from over 100 countries, the LHC has enabled us to push the boundaries of scientific knowledge.
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Published on: 27 Jun 2018
Cellulose, one of the three major components of plants, is showing great promise as a renewable source for many convenience products. It is made of glucose, a molecule which can be fermented by microorganisms into virtually any desired small molecule of interest. More especially it can be converted to ethanol to make sustainable biofuels.
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Published on: 13 Jun 2018
The way individual atoms and molecules move in materials has important consequences on properties such as electrical conductivity, heat capacity and acoustics. 聽Even in solids, atoms are always moving back and forth about some average position, and this motion occurs through specific wave-like modes called phonons. Phonons form elementary excitations in the material and can therefore carry energy in the form of heat.听 As temperature increases, so do the number of phonons and vice-versa.听 The group of Dr.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2018
We are pleased to inform you that Mr. Mikhail Karpukhin, a PhD student in mathematics at 香蕉视频, is the 2018 recipient of the Carl Herz Prize.
Mikhail Karpukhin is completing his Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Dmitry Jakobson and Iosif Polterovich. Previously, he was a student of Alexei Penskoi at Moscow State University and the Independent University of Moscow.
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Published on: 11 May 2018
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry invites you to Montreal, Canada, for the International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition on August聽12-17,聽2018. This 18th edition of the symposium is co-organized by the National Research Council of Canada, 香蕉视频, the University of Waterloo, and BIOTECanada.
聽鈥� Deadline extended to May 11, 2018
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Published on: 8 May 2018
Cosmologist Jonathan Sievers and international-relations scholar Jennifer Welsh will become Canada 150 Research Chairs at 香蕉视频. The appointments were among the oday at the聽Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec,聽by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.听聽
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018
Gault Nature Reserve special edition
Calling all scientist-artists:
Does the FOREST inspire you? In honour of the 60th anniversary of the Gault Nature Reserve in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a special edition of the Artists Among Us art exhibition will take place during the months of July and August 2018 at the Alice Johannsen Pavilion of the Reserve.
Artists Among Us is a McGill event聽in which students, faculty, staff, alumni and retirees display their artwork, reminding the campus community how many of our members have parallel creative pursuits.
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Published on: 26 Mar 2018
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have invented a new technique for measuring how quickly drugs interact with their molecular targets. The discovery provides scientists with a new way to investigate the effectiveness of drug candidates that might otherwise have been overlooked.
The new method centres on the principle of enzyme inhibition. Countless pharmaceuticals, ranging from antibiotics to chemotherapy drugs, work by blocking the action of enzymes, and the search for new enzyme-inhibiting substances remains a major focus of drug development.
Published on: 1 Mar 2018
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have discovered a new, more environmentally friendly way to make ketones, an important chemical ingredient in pharmaceuticals.听 While ketones are found in a wide range of useful chemicals, they are commonly prepared through energy-intensive, multi-step technologies that create significant chemical waste.听 In an article published online last month in Nature Chemistry, the McGill scientists demonstrate how carbon monoxide, a widely available by-product of combustion, can instead be used to form high-energy chemicals that react directly with benzene to
Published on: 26 Jan 2018
Registration for the taking place in Montreal July 2018 has now opened. You can register .听
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Published on: 18 Sep 2017
Registration has opened for the taking place in Montreal July 23-28, 2018. You can register .听
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Published on: 15 Sep 2017
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