All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 242

  • Feature

    Where the rubber meets the road

    2011-09-29T14:44:00Z

    A tyre's composition affects grip, fuel economy and its lifetime. Fiona Case investigates how new materials are improving tyre performance and reducing environmental impact

  • Opinion

    Thinking a lot about hydrogen

    2011-09-29T14:44:00Z

    I've been thinking a lot about hydrogen recently

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-09-29T14:43:59Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Letters: October 2011

    2011-09-29T14:43:00Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...

  • Feature

    Engines of innovation

    2011-09-29T14:42:39Z

    Our desire for economical but environmentally friendly transport has driven progress in fuel and oil additives. But as Andy Extance discovers, further development is needed

  • Feature

    Fuelling the future

    2011-09-29T14:40:29Z

    Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term, as Laura Howes finds out

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:20:32Z

    Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:19:17Z

    Biofuels are needed more urgently than ever, but issues of land use change and management must be considered first, say Jeremy Woods, Seyed Ali Hosseini and Nilay Shah

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:18:01Z

    On their return from Monza, Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to the Williams F1 team about tyre performance, fuel and the chemistry of racing

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:14:35Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions, says David Delpy

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Formula One science ambassadors

    2011-09-29T13:52:00Z

    Here's a headline that really stands out

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-09-29T13:42:00Z

    Synechoxanthin

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    Opinion

    Van de Graaff generator

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development

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    Opinion

    Common sense and safety

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    You have to make space for good sense when thinking about safety, argues Derek Lowe

  • Opinion

    Salt, science, salad and art

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Were you aware of Salt Awareness week? Me neither, admits Philip Ball

  • Business

    Business roundup: October 2011

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Ireland still attractive to pharma industry Pharma and chemical products represent 50 per cent of Irish exports Less than a year has passed since internal economic turmoil in Ireland culminated in an unprecedented €83 billion (£71 billion) bailout, yet interest in pharma manufacturing in the country seems ...

  • News

    Breathing life into medical devices

    2011-09-29T11:13:00Z

    Tiny piezoelectric polymer belts produce electricity from respiration

  • News

    Conjuring up gram quantities of stabilising anion

    2011-09-28T14:41:00Z

    German chemists have made gram quantities of an extremely useful anion via a rather scary route

  • News

    Interview: Gilles Cottier

    2011-09-28T08:35:00Z

    The president of SAFC has set ambitious growth targets that he plans to meet by sticking close to his customers

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    Podcast

    Lycra

    2011-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg stretches out the science of this compound