All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 112
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News
Car tyres and brakes produce toxic metal emissions
Your exhaust emissions may be up to standard, but your car's not as green as you think
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Cell transplant hope for diabetes sufferers
Insulin-producing cells carried in protective magnetocapsules are tracked by MRI
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Space monster discovered
Octatetraynyl ion is the largest negatively charged molecule ever seen in space
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Shortcut protein synthesis ditches amino acids
Polymerisation route using carbon monoxide is fast and cheap
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Review
Metals in Medicine
The application of metal ions or metal-containing compounds as medicines goes back many hundreds, even thousands, of years
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Review
Ecological impact
Understanding our environment, therefore, requires an understanding of environmental chemistry
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Review
Cinderella of the Polymer World
Water- soluble polymers - whether derived from nature or entirely man-made - tend to get forgotten
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Review
Catalysis - where 'green' started
The potential for carrying out reactions with exceptional selectivity under very mild conditions clearly fits with the concepts of green chemistry
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Review
Chemistry for all our needs and desires
Chemistry surrounds us now, and will be crucial to our future well-being
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News
Novel aerogels to absorb toxic heavy metals
Chalcogenide gels bind mercury better than traditional oxides
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Feature
Makeshift to Mars
The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. Richard Corfield discovers how Nasa's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach
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FeatureThe enduring image
In the commercial battle between digital and analogue photography, physics eventually prevailed. Here, Mike Ware reveals how chemistry shaped the history of photographic images
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Polarising the debate?
Fluorochemicals are still causing concern. Emma Davies finds out how polar bears and microwaved popcorn reignited the contamination debate
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FeatureAt the top of the cascade
David MacMillan, a leading light in organocatalysis, takes James Mitchell Crow on a tour of the field
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Opinion
Letters: August 2007
From John Holman Your editorial ’Dear Gordon’ (Chemistry World, June 2007) points to the skills that chemistry graduates can contribute to the economy. Chemistry is a quantitative subject that teaches the scientific use of evidence, and that is one reason why chemistry graduates are so employable. However, Peter Cotgreave’s ...