All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 75
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News
Putting the brakes on nanomachines
Light-activated molecular brake adds stopping power to spinning nanomachines
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Feature
A sustainable generation?
The use of palm oil to make biodiesel has incited environmental and humanitarian concerns. Jane Qiu unpicks the controversy and the possibilities
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News
Surfactants stop microbubbles popping for a year
Micrometre-scale dispersions could be used in foams, ice cream, paints and contrast agents
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News
US farm bill promotes advanced biofuels
Congress overrides Bush veto to cut corn ethanol subsidies and create incentives for second-generation fuels
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Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst
Titanium dioxide crystals with modified surfaces are extra reactive
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Cancer research gets collaborative funding boost
Cancer Research UK hand-picks interdisciplinary teams to bring drugs from bench to clinic
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Changes to US chemical review procedures
EPA assessments could take a year longer after changes to the IRIS system, says congressional watchdog
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Review
Supercharged
In a long and illustrious career, Nobel Laureate George Olah, director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, US, has made many seminal contributions to chemistry
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Review
Fruit of the sun
Pierre Laszlo taught chemistry at Princeton and Cornell in the US, the University of Liege, Belgium, and the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris
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Review
Much ado about nothing
Although most chemists would agree that, in its essence, chemistry is all about chemical reactions
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Review
A world full of colour
David Lee has travelled the world on botanical expeditions like a latter-day Victorian plant hunter
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Feature
Keeping it simple
A discouraging chemistry teacher and a failed rock band just made Harren Jhoti all the more determined to succeed. Sarah Houlton meets the 2008 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year
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Feature
Breaking the rules
Sarah Houlton finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success
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See the wood for the fuel
Countries are turning to their commercial forests as a source of non-agricultural biofuels. Elisabeth Jeffries reports
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Opinion
Lost in translation
From time to time I translate public relations documents on progress in science and technology
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Opinion
Letters: June 2008
From Peter Bentley Your article, ’The Trouble with Antibiotics’ (Chemistry World, March 2008, p16) was unremarkable in containing nothing new, but it did omit a few aspects. The timeline failed to show dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) or isoleucyl tRNA synthetase inhibitors, exemplified by trimethoprim and pseudomonic acid respectively. That takes ...
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News
Plastics industry hit by bag crackdown
Job losses and closures as China's plastic bag ban comes into force