All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 52
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Careers
Profile: Diversity, variety and collaboration
Typecasting has never been a problem for Sally Gras, whose interests have ranged from fluid mechanics and protein misfolding to cheese making, discovers James Mitchell Crow
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Feature
60 years of innovation
To celebrate the international year of chemistry, James Mitchell Crow looks back at some of the discoveries and developments made by chemists over the past six decades
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Opinion
Letters: March 2011
David Jones in ’Sparks of illumination’ (Chemistry World, January 2011, p80) lists three sparkers: iron, titanium and cerium, but he does not refer to the actinide metals, neither does he refer to pyrite, FeS2. The name pyrite is derived from the Greek in allusion to the sparks emitted when it ...
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Feature
On the origin of proteins
A series of mistakes over 3.7 billion years has left us with a spectacular array of protein structures and functions, which are responsible for life itself, writes Bea Perks
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FeatureNanotech decade
Ten years of investment has turned nanotechnology into a booming research and industrial landscape. Fiona Case investigates whether it has lived up to the hype
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Feature
SizingItUp
Andrew Turley takes a tour of the latest tools for particle sizing, and finds that the answer depends very much on the way you ask the question
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News
Seaweed recruited in fight against malaria
Natural products from Fijian red seaweed have shown remarkable anti-malarial properties
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News
Elusive form of iron captured
Structural and spectroscopic evidence of a highly reactive iron(V) nitride compound
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News
Diagnosing diseases with CDs
A microfluidic device has been built into a compact disc for use in a personal computer to analyse cells
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News
Mystery of natural sunscreen solved
Compounds found in coral transform light energy from the sun into heat energy without damaging plants
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News
Catalyst cleans up C-C bond formation
Iridium compound makes carbon-carbon bonds using methanol
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News
UK lab admits failings in inquest over death
Employees were inadequately protected by safety equipment
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Podcast
March 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - March 20111.22: Cells as test tubes3.29: Electrons charge down DNA molecular wire5.58: Kenneth Dawson on the challenges and success stories of nanotechnology12.33: Pig power for batteries14.35: BSE pathogens passed on by air 16.38: Joe Thornton on resurrecting ancient proteins to understand how they have evolved to ...
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News
Unravelling chromosomes
A micro device can be used to isolate long strands of DNA for gene studies
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News
Chickpeas grow taller with carbon nanotubes
Water soluble carbon nanotubes can aid plant growth