Tamara L. Church

TL;DR: The mechanisms by which engineered nanomaterials penetrate plants are not well understood, and further research on their interactions with vascular plants is required to enable the field of phytotoxicology to keep pace with that of nanotechnology.

TL;DR: In this article, an amino functionalised metal-organic framework (MOF), aluminium aminoterephthalate (amino-MIL-101(Al)), has been applied to the adsorptive removal of dyes (cationic methylene blue, MB, and anionic methyl orange, MO) from aqueous solutions in order to examine the effect of the amino group on sorption behaviour.

TL;DR: This work reanalyse the Raman spectra of graphenes and shows that traditional methods rely upon an apparent G peak which is in fact a superposition of the G and D’ peaks, which has important implications for purification techniques because, once GO is reduced beyond a critical threshold, further reduction offers limited gain in conductivity.

TL;DR: Chiral iridium catalysts have been used in the asymmetric hydrogenation of largely unfunctionalized olefins for a decade as mentioned in this paper, and they have also been applied to substrates with more exotic functional groups, including non-coordinating ones.

TL;DR: Alfalfa and wheat tolerated high concentrations of industrial-grade multiwalled CNTs, which adsorbed onto their roots but were rarely taken up, and catalyst impurities also enhanced root elongation in alFalfa seedlings as well as wheat germination.