All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 242
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Business
Albemarle buys into lithium with Rockwood merger
$6.2 billion deal capitalises on battery market growth
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PodcastBisphenol A
The science is far from settled, but this week’s compound – bisphenol A – is facing bans across the world
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ResearchBubble wrap could send lab costs packing
Potential bubbles up across wide range of uses as storage and test vessels, especially for poor countries
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NewsFormer Royal Society of Chemistry president Lord Lewis dies
Jack Lewis, inorganic chemist and member of the House of Lords, has died aged 86
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CareersTo detect and defend
Rebecca Hopkins tells Philip Robinson about her life and work as a scientist in the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
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OpinionThe energy to fight injustice
Giving the world carbon-free energy means putting nuclear energy back on the agenda, says James Hansen
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NewsEurope mulls best way to handle nanotech
Some countries have gone it alone and started registers of nanomaterials while the EU considers its options
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ResearchRecycled fish bones offer five star sun protection
Slip-slap-slop with biocompatible material derived from waste cod bones
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BusinessInvestigators find cause of West Virginia chemical spill
Holes in uninspected storage tanks led to leak that contaminated water supplies
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Business
Tata Chemicals to mothball Kenya plant
Closure blamed on high energy prices and will mean 200 jobs being cut
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FeatureChemists at war
The first world war saw chemistry play a vital role – and in more than just poison gas. Mike Sutton looks back
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – the National Science Learning Centre
Plans were laid for a new network of science learning centres to be established across the UK
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NewsNGOs call for Europe's chief scientific adviser post to be scrapped
Environmental groups say policy advice should come from several different sources
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NewsScientists and university officials caught up in China’s anti-corruption drive
Rising funding for universities may be fuelling corruption, while top bosses’ fiefdoms makes them hard to catch
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ResearchUranium complexes unlock feedstock potential of carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide and depleted uranium both put to good use
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BusinessPharma firms rush to escape US tax shackles
AbbVie–Shire and Mylan–Abbott mergers both allow US firms to escape to lower-tax European countries
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ResearchMagnetic nanocubes self-assemble into spirals
Tiny cubes of magnetite form superstructures under a magnetic field
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ResearchPropeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off
Chemists’ synthetic answer to graphene – flat polymer sheets a molecule thick – could be tailored to many applications
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BusinessTakeover battle pushes Allergan to cut R&D jobs
Besieged by serially acquisitive Valeant, the Botox maker will lay off 1500 staff to propel earnings growth