ScienceDaily: Matter & Energy News


Metal ions help COVID-19 virus disguise itself

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 10:03 AM PDT

Researchers are reporting a mechanism by which the COVID-19 virus takes advantage of changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itself.

Activation of carbon-fluorine bonds via cooperation of a photocatalyst and tin

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 07:16 AM PDT

Researchers have discovered a new organic reaction that selectively converts only a specific carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond in perfluorinated compounds to other functional groups. This is expected to lead to the expansion of the library of seed compounds for fluorine-containing drug discovery.