How Nanostructured Tin-Gas Sensors Could Tackle Climate Change azosensors.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from azosensors.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers from the University of Surrey believe that tin-based gas sensors could help track and control harmful nitrogen (NO2) gases that pollute our planet.
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A thriving researcher, Jorge Ontaneda has published several papers in the field of surface science, with primary research interests in the electronic structure of metal-based interfaces for a wide variety of applications. But how he got into chemistry is a fortuity, as he originally wanted to study physics at university and beyond.
“There wasn’t an option to study physics at my home university in Loja in Ecuador, so I had to choose something closely related, which was chemical engineering. I enjoyed the work I was doing and at the end I met my future PhD supervisor, Dr Ricardo Grau-Crespo, who invited me to join his research group at the University of Reading.
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A phenomenon called proton tunneling could account for point mutations in strands of genetic material
March 17, 2021
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Quantum mechanics, which rules the world of the teensy-tiny, may help explain why genetic mutations spontaneously crop up in DNA as it makes copies of itself, a recent study suggests.
Quantum mechanics describes the strange rules that govern atoms and their subatomic components. When the rules of classical physics, which describe the big world, break down, quantum comes in to explain. In the case of DNA, classical physics offers one explanation for why changes can suddenly appear in a single rung of the spiraling ladder of DNA, resulting in what’s called a point mutation.