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How Insects Help Us Build Light-Emitting and Other Special Nanomolecules

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Who would have thought that caterpillar droppings would make chemists’ hearts beat faster? And yet that is exactly what happened at the RIKEN Institute. The Japanese turned insects into crawling miniature factories to process ultra-small carbon structures in a completely new way. The surprising approach is called ‘in-insect synthesis’ and was devised by lead researcher Kenichiro Itami. […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .
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Researchers led by Kenichiro Itami at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) / RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have successfully used insects as mini-molecule factories, achieving a breakthrough in chemical engineering. This approach, known as "in-insect synthesis,"...

Who would have thought that caterpillar droppings would make chemists’ hearts beat faster? And yet that is exactly what happened at the RIKEN Institute. The Japanese turned insects into crawling miniature factories to process ultra-small carbon structures in a completely new way. The surprising approach is called ‘in-insect synthesis’ and was devised by lead researcher Kenichiro Itami. […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .

·Middelharnis, Netherlands
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scientias.nl broke the news in Middelharnis, Netherlands on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
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