All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 168
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Feature
Extreme crystallography
Scientists at the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions in Edinburgh, UK, are subjecting crystals to immense pressures, with surprising results. Simon Hadlington reports
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Opinion
Cross-disciplinary successes
Cross-disciplinary research is essential. Chris St Pourçain explores the funding problems and ways to increase the number of applications
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Opinion
Editorial: Can't quit coal? Capture carbon
Mechanisms exist to help China minimise the environmental impact of its dependence on coal
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FeatureLSD: cultural revolution and medical advances
Albert Hofmann has largely faded from public view but his creation has become part of our cultural fabric. David Nichols reports
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Business
Business roundup: January 2006
Explosion at UK oil terminal Reports of an explosion that tore through an oil storage terminal jointly owned by Total and Texaco could be overlooking significant health risks, says a leading combustion engineer. There were 36 reported casualties, only two of which were serious, and no reported deaths following the ...
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News
Europe could lead the way in nanomedicine
European researchers are developing leading technologies in the emerging field of nanomedicine but have few opportunities to exploit them commercially.
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News
Models of proton transport in fuel cell membranes
Quantum modelling is helping explain how protons are transported through the polymer membranes used in fuel cells.
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News
New steps to organofluorines via silanes
New pathways for controlled synthesis of fluorinated targets have been opened up by UK researchers.
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News
Getting liquids to follow the light
US researchers have taken advantage of the so-called coffee-ring effect to move liquids around using only heated gold nanoparticles.
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News
Flow system leads to faster isolation of reaction products
A less labour-intensive bench-top flow method of carrying out organic reactions has been investigated by scientists in the UK.
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News
Boost for UK nuclear research
The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute is creating a £20 million nuclear research and teaching project.
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News
£10 million for medicinal chemists
Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research organisation, is tackling a medicinal chemistry crisis with a £10 million grant.
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News
Enhanced anti-gene strategies
Researchers in Japan have developed anti-gene oligonucleotides which bind more tightly to target genes, and are less likely to bind to the wrong genes.
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News
Building bridges in enzyme chemistry
A new class of complex containing a borohydride group bound between two nickel atoms has been made that may have applications in molecular magnetic materials.
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News
Nanoscale analysis of biological samples
A new approach to nanoscale analysis of the elements in biological samples and gels has been developed by scientists in Germany
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News
Microwave cooking for soluble CNTs
The industrial processing of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could become much easier with the development of a quick and simple way to make them highly soluble.
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News
Open access debated in Westminster
The open access controversy continues with a recent parliamentary debate, which revealed that the UK government is still not convinced the so-called author pays open access publishing model will work.
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News
Creating chirality in crystals
Chemists from Canada have found a new way to perform asymmetric catalysis - in a crystal.
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News
How copper complexes target hypoxic cells
Understanding how copper complexes target hypoxic tissues (those lacking oxygen) could aid cancer treatment, say UK chemists.
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News
Update: Reach crosses next hurdle, more to come
As news of the ministerial agreement on Reach filtered through to Strasbourg, MEPs have reacted with dismay.