All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 130
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‘Spider threads’ bring great self-healing power
Mimicking silk protein’s stimuli responsiveness not only brings millimetre-scale cracks together, it also successfully recreates its legendary toughness
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Sensor a snug fit for glucose
On the route to cutting edge personal blood sugar monitoring devices
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European air pollution concerns
Emission limits still being exceeded by member states as scientists make further warnings of what’s to come
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Improved drugs to treat malarial liver infection
New antimalarials are more effective than their clinical counterparts in in vitro tests
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BusinessIrish pharma exports tumble
Seven of the top 10 drugs going off patent between 2011 and 2014 are produced in Ireland
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CareersGoing solo
Simon Perks finds out how a corporate restructure turned five industrial chemists into start-up entrepreneurs
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Solar cell meets sunflower
Boosting solar cell performance using liquid crystal elastomers to mimic sunflowers and track the sun across the sky
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Protein coat for gene therapy
A non-viral capsid has been converted to carry nucleic acids inside
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Liquid gallium lights up
Nanomoulded gallium gratings switch plasmonic properties as they melt and solidify
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3D-printed miniaturised fluidic devices
Micro-to-milli-scale fluidic ‘reactionware’ devices made using 3D printing technology
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Bapineuzunab dropped
Development for the Alzheimer’s treatment stopped after clinical tests
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FeatureBig troubles over tiny bubbles
Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles
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Recovering chemical weapons
As stockpiles of chemical weapons are destroyed, the US looks to detecting and destroying buried munitions
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‘Genetic code’ guides nanoparticle growth
DNA can be programmed to create nanoparticles of various shapes
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Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability
Direct weighing of lawrencium points the way to finding elusive stable superheavy elements
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Long life rice
Fruit flies’ lifespan increased by 14% with antioxidants extracted from black rice
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Non-stick coating gives biofilms the slip
Drawing inspiration from big pharma a high throughput screen has thrown up some interesting materials to protect patients from hospital infections