All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 258
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News
Ionic liquid advance over saline-based lenses
Exchanging conductive fluid boosts performance of variable focus lenses
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News
Across the barrier for tumour imaging
A probe for pinpointing the location of a tumour and image-guided tumour removal
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News
Materials and Polymers
Researchers have created a material that can flip from flexible to rigid on application of an electric charge
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Methane activation by organometallic reagent
A metal-carbon bond can activate methane to produce useful hydrocarbons
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An electric partnership
Unlikely pairing of bacteria provides each one with chemicals to their mutual current-generating benefit in a bioelectrochemical reactor
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Swimming with sensors
A sensor that can be printed onto a wetsuit could be used to detect pollutants and explosives in sea water
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Mosquitoes fooled by compounds that target CO2 sensors
New chemicals can fight mosquito-borne diseases by interfering with the insects' carbon dioxide receptors
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PodcastNitrous oxide
From Preistley's early experiments to the latest 'hippy crack' phase, we take a look at the history of laughing gas
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Podcast
June 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - June 20111:20 - Fish in chips: growing embryos in microfluidic systems3:20 - DNA origami yields tiny flask5:42 - How similar are generic biological drugs to their patented counterparts, and how does that affect how they work? Pauline Rudd explains13:20 - Nanodiamond aerogel hammered out on anvil15:39 ...
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Texas universities' spending under scrutiny
Think tanks target public spending at Texas universities amid claims of underperforming staff
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Careers
Profile: Chemists on a contract
Emma Blaney joins a growing number of chemists leaving big pharma for careers in contract research organisations (CROs), reports Sarah Houlton
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News
Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions
Chemists can now peer deeper into a material to follow chemical reactions thanks to a new x-ray technique
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Feature
Extreme potential
The world's least hospitable environments are treasure troves for synthetic organic chemists and drug developers, reports Bea Perks
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Feature
No laughing matter
Had it not been for nitrous oxide's subversion as a recreational folly, its utility as an anaesthetic could have been uncovered much earlier, as John Mann discovers
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Cast from the same mould?
Development of generic biological drugs is gathering momentum. But as Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay finds out, the welcome they are receiving looks very different in the EU and the US
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Opinion
Letters: June 2011
In reference to your recent editorial (Chemistry World, May 2011, p2) where the ethics of biofuels are discussed, we believe it is misleading to suggest that deforestation and the displacement of indigenous people are a result of biofuel production. It is accepted that logging is the primary cause of these ...
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FeatureBreaking through the barrier
Getting drug molecules into the brain means crossing the defensive blood-brain barrier. Anthony King investigates how chemists are infiltrating the brain's fortress
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