All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 81
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Feature
Engines of innovation
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
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Opinion
Letters: October 2011
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 ...
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Feature
Where the rubber meets the road
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
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Hold your breath
Particulates from vehicles cause significant issues in urban environments. Emma Davies uncovers the chemistry that is causing and potentially solving the problems
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Feature
Changing planes
A new breed of aircraft built from lightweight carbon composites is taking flight. But are these materials all they're cracked up to be, asks Hayley Birch
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News
Solving a tangled polymer problem
A new model can predict flow behaviour of branched polymer melts like LDPE
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News
Interview: Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith tells Ruth Doherty why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus colour
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News
Messenger sheds light on Mercury's formation
Nasa probe may rewrite the books on the birth of the solar system's smallest planet
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Podcast
October 2011
Chemistry World Podcast -October 2011 1:05 -Microscopy reveals why ketchup squirts 5:07- Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery 7:20-Paul Shearing explains why you might want to swap your home boiler for a fuel cell 14:30-Two for one - cleaning water and generating energy 17:52-Bacteria responsible for missing 'atmospheric brooms' that ...
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News
US firm to 'mine' lithium from geothermal plant brines
Simbol Materials opens pilot facility to separate lithium from geothermal power plant wastewater
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Mixed solvents exfoliate graphene analogues
Chemists in China open up more possibilities to produce single-layer inorganic nanomaterials
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Turning carbon dioxide into chemicals with an amine
The reduction and functionalisation of carbon dioxide in a single step yields chemically versatile molecules
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News
One year on from Hungary's red mud disaster
On the first anniversary of the country's worst environmental accident the area has recovered surprisingly quickly
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News
Crystals that aren't quite crystalline win Nobel
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals
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Detecting plasticisers in drinks
A simple analytical test could prevent phthalates from entering the food chain
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Using eggshells to remove toxic water pollutants
Eggshell membranes can remove toxic hexavalent chromium from contaminated water