Benjamin List and David MacMillan independently developed a precise new tool for building new molecules – organocatalysis – which has made chemistry greener.
Catalysts are used to control and accelerate reactions in a vast number of industries. Our laureates have shown that organic catalysts, which are cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional catalysts, can be used to drive multitudes of chemical reactions.
Using these reactions, researchers can now more efficiently construct anything from new pharmaceuticals to molecules that can capture light in solar cells. They have even identified an organocatalyst that can break down plastic waste.
They are not the only laureates whose work has made our lives more sustainable, from growing enough food to feed Earth’s growing population and combatting deforestation, to highlighting the damaging effect of CFC gases on ozone.
Learn more: https://www.nobelprize.org/spotlight-on-sustainability/
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Meanwhile, the EU is in the final stages of negotiations for the AI Act, and some of the toughest questions about the bill, such as whether to ban facial recognition, how to regulate generative AI, and how enforcement should work, will be hashed out between now and Christmas. Even the leaders of the G7 decided to chime in and agreed to create a voluntary code of conduct for AI.
hashed out
散列出來- a dish of cooked meat cut into small pieces and cooked again, usually with potatoes.
- 1.make (meat or other food) into a hash.
- 2.COMPUTINGassign a numeric or alphanumeric string to (a piece of data) by applying a function whose output values are all the same number of bits in length.
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