All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 76
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News
15 May 2006: Sussex reprieve raises intervention issue
Plans to close Sussex chemistry department scrapped, new department created.
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Switching off polymerisation in the dark
With summer on the way, polymer science is about to get a boost following news that sunlight can kick-start polymerisation.
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Buckyballs worth their weight in gold
Move over carbon, a team of US chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold.
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Biochemists reveal hidden drug effects
Canadian researchers have identified unexpected drug activities by probing biochemical pathways inside living cells.
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Precious platinum photographs
A photograph printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby's.
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CNTs provide pores for thought
Membranes containing pores made of carbon nanotubes could improve the efficiency of industrial processes such as desalination.
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Back in time for CW reporter
Familiar face returns Robert Hooke's long-lost notes to the Royal Society in London
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Budget shortfall threatens FP7
EU research investment from 2007 to 2013 will fall ?20 billion short of previous agreements.
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Brazil and UK team up
Brazil is 'ready and mature' to join the international science arena, according to the Brazilian science minister
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Detecting brain damage before it happens
New NMR technique could detect brain damage early enough to provide treatment for stroke victims.
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Electric shock for controlled release
US researchers have improved the method for controlled release of biomolecules using gold electrodes.
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Business
Business roundup: June 2006
Leading lab suppliers merge Analytical instrument firm Thermo Electron and chemical manufacturer Fisher Scientific have agreed a merger deal, aiming to become ’the leading provider of laboratory products and services in the high-growth life, laboratory and health sciences industry’. Thermo, the smaller of the two US companies, will acquire ...
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OpinionSimon Campbell: looking back
Simon Campbell reflects on the Royal Society of Chemistry's achievements during his presidency.
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Careers
When money and lives are on the line
Davina Stevenson enjoys a career where people's lives and vast sums of money are at stake, reports Yfke Hager.
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Feature
Chancing upon chemical wonders
Serendipity has played a big part in many of chemistry's major discoveries, from electrically conducting polymers to mauve dye, as Philip Ball finds out.
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Opinion
Letters: June 2006
From Sir Harry Kroto Fundamental advances in the chemical sciences are today more vital than in any other area for survival of the human race and the sustainability of our modern way of life. The chemical sciences underpin, in the most fundamental ways, the cutting edge areas of ...