All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 56
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Opinion
Letters: November 2008
From Alan Dronsfield Norman Nicholson asks about the introduction of uranium as the catalyst for the Haber process (Chemistry World, September 2008, p42). In 1908, Haber and Le Rossignol realised that it would be possible to synthesise ammonia in an 8 per cent yield at about 600°C and 200 atmospheres ...
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News
Choosy yeasts pick out enantiomers
Selective fungi could help make useful chiral building blocks
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Careers
Profile: Living chemistry
Elizabeth Blackburn knows that chemistry is the key to understanding life, as she tells Ned Stafford
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Careers
Company Profile: Chemists in the driving seat
Victoria Gill speaks to young scientists at Shell's Global Solutions Technology Centre in Cheshire, UK
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Careers
Careers clinic: Be prepared
Keeping your CV updated is the key to career mobility, says Caroline Tolond
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Careers
The Educated Chemist: Preparing students for industry
At £250 million, the EPSRC's largest ever call will champion a new breed of doctoral training centre
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Opinion
Notions of nanobots
Ubiquitous images of nanobots are 20,000 leagues from reality, warns Phil Ball
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OpinionAbbes refractometer
The other day I found myself in the supermarket staring at a frozen cliff of buttery spreads
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Business
Business roundup: November 2008
Huntsman wins Hexion court fight Huntsman has won its legal battle to force Hexion to honour its $10.6 billion (?5.4 billion) takeover deal, originally agreed in July 2007. In June 2008, Hexion declared that it was taking legal action in a bid to back out of the deal, claiming that ...
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Opinion
Editorial: Funding strategies
Why chemists are worried about the EPSRC's change in funding strategy
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News
Drug sandwich baits E. coli toxins
Polymer scaffolds hook up toxins to proteins that destroy them
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News
Viagra variants could beat muscle fatigue
Muscular dystrophy patients' tiredness after exercise could be treated with erectile dysfunction pills.