Dis/connection Matters: Natural, Synthetic, and Digital

Natural Products and Synthetic Biology

While the phrasing of this tripartite classification was not intended to describe the current state of natural products research, it could have been, as it provides an apt description of the field today. The organic molecules lumped under the term natural products elude an easy definition. They are a structurally diverse collection of molecules produced by organisms in an idiosyncratic fashion,...

Natural and Synthetic Biomedical Polymers

Synthetic Aperture Digital Holography

Synthetic aperture is a well-known super-resolution technique which extends the resolution capabilities of an imaging system beyond the theoretical Rayleigh limit dictated by the system's actual aperture. Using this technique, several patterns acquired by an aperture-limited system, from various locations, are tiled together to one large pattern which could be captured only by a virtual system ...

Elimination of Cd2+ and Mn2+ from Wastewaters Using Natural Clinoptilolite and Synthetic Zeolite P

This study deals with the uptake of Cd2+ and  Mn2+ ions from contaminated water using two Iranian natural clinoptilolite-rich tuffs from Meyaneh (Z-m), and Semnan (Z-s) regions , and a synthetic zeolite-P from Z-m sample (Z-P) under static (batch operation) and dynamic (column operation) conditions. To investigate the selectivity of the zeolites towar...

C natural abundance: rooting medium matters

• Tree root respiration utilizes a major portion of the primary production in forests and is an important process in the global carbon cycle. Because of the lack of ecologically relevant methods, tree root respiration in situ is much less studied compared with above-ground processes such as photosynthesis and leaf respiration. • This study introduces a new 13 C natural tracer method for measuri...