by RIG Admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Research highlights
The iron-molybdenum (FeMoco) and iron-vanadium cofactors (FeVco) in the molybdenum/vanadium nitrogenase enzymes catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen at ambient temperature and pressure to ammonia according to the reaction equation: N2 +8H+ 8e- +16MgATP→ H2 +...
by RIG Admin | Nov 7, 2019 | Research highlights
GaN is a wide gap semiconductor that is a crucial component of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are essential for solid state lighting. Both n- and p-type layers are required for LEDs, but achieving p-type GaN is very difficult; the only successful method is...
by RIG Admin | Sep 18, 2019 | Uncategorised
We were deeply shocked and saddened to hear that our colleague, friend and mentor Prof. Walter Thiel passed away last month. Walter Thiel made important contributions to many areas of computational chemistry over his long career, but ChemShell users will probably know...
by RIG Admin | Jul 25, 2019 | Research highlights
TiO2 is a key material for photocatalytic water splitting, where it has been found that samples composed of mixtures of the anatase and rutile polymorphs outperform the pure phase samples. Several explanations for this observation were proposed with no consensus being...
by RIG Admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Research highlights
Copper-containing nitrite reductase enzymes (CuNiRs) play a key role in the global nitrogen cycle by reducing nitrite (NO2−) to nitric oxide (NO). CuNiRs come in two-domain and three-domain forms, where the former have one cupredoxin domain and the latter have an...
