All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 223
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BPA substitute made from paper industry leftovers
Plant-derived plastic shows the benefits of BPA without the toxicity
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Business
US focuses pharma supply chain scrutiny
Import pre-authorisation for trusted firms frees up resources to tackle purity problems
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Nanobionic plants
A step towards biochemical detectors for monitoring environmental conditions and, ultimately, synthetic materials that grow and repair themselves like plants
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Agar gives Milan’s cathedral a sponge down
Stonework avoids damage while soot and salt deposits are soaked up
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BusinessBumpy road for Chinese renewable energy
Huge losses at star Chinese renewable energy firms are ringing alarm bells
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US coal companies fined over water pollution
Comprehensive upgrades required to water treatment systems at mines and processing plants
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ResearchElectronic tag dissolves in water
A radio tracking tag made completely of soluble components for eco-friendly disposal
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Analytical tools made from ordinary office paper
Everyday material transformed into cheap electrochemical devices
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Molecular drill bits attack tuberculosis
Researchers in the US have designed three new peptides that break through bacterial cell walls
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CareersChasing the sun
It took some time, and a lot of jobs, but Matt Carnie eventually found a role he loves in materials research. Manisha Lalloo asks for his career analysis
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Computer memory made from sugar cube
Edible, biodegradable metal–organic framework can form resistive random-access memory
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FeatureChemistry on the front line
Philip Robinson reports from the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down
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Nanoparticle composites make colourful magnetic crystals
Gel crystallisation loads gold and iron into normally colourless calcite to give it new properties
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Super sensitive test hones in on performance enhancing drugs
A simple new method makes existing tests a thousand times more sensitive
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ResearchFoaming security system gives thieves a surprise
ATMs could be made from a new material that sprays out in self-defence and destroys banknotes
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Magnetic field and pH synergy controls therapeutic burst
Schiff base bond only breaks and delivers drugs under the correct conditions, minimising damage to healthy cells