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Organic Chemistry Functional Group Playing Cards

To help students learn to recognize common organic functional groups when given chemical formulas and names, students can use an organic chemistry functional group playing card deck to play any card ...
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Solving the structure of a functional amyloid protein provides new clues to the origin of a rare disease

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3 (LGMD D3) is a rare disease causing progressive muscle weakness, caused by point mutations in the hnRNPDL-2 protein. A member of the RNA-associated ...
Nature

Graphene quantum dots: structural integrity and oxygen functional groups for high sulfur/sulfide utilization in lithium sulfur batteries

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are expected to overcome the limit of current energy storage devices by delivering high specific energy with low material cost. However, the potential of Li–S batteries ...

Machine learning workflow enables faster, more reliable organic crystal structure prediction

Prediction of crystal structures of organic molecules is a critical task in many industries, especially in pharmaceuticals ...