All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 85
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Opinion
Letters: November 2011
The presenter of the BBC Horizon programme which dealt with the safety of nuclear installations broadcast on 14 September was careful to avoid commitment but clearly implied that, based on the concept of tolerability of risk, the nuclear energy industry is as safe as any other of equal size ...
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Feature
Waving goodbye to the paper lab book
With electronic lab notebooks finally making waves in academia, Anthony King asks whether the time has come to part company with the much loved paper lab book
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Feature
Curiosity to take off
When Nasa's latest Mars rover is launched into space later this year, it'll carry the most advanced analytical instruments ever sent to the planet. David Pittman reports
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News
Exploding cucumbers inspire drug delivery
A capsule that squirts cancer drug at its target in a new drug delivery strategy
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News
Clicking together synthetic antibodies
Enzymes can be used as templates to produce synthetic antibodies via click chemistry reactions
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NewsThe kilogram is dead! Long live the kilogram!
Four of the base SI units, including the kilogram and mole, are set to be redefined
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News
Organic LEDs set to become displays' flexible friend
Researchers find a way to put OLEDs on flexible plastic while retaining efficiency
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Pee-powered fuel cell turns urine to energy
Urine could be processed into power and fertiliser by bacterial biofilms
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Podcast
November 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - November 201101:22- World's longest carbon-carbon bond created04:20- Pitcher plant inspires ultimate non-stick surface07:54- NASA's John Grotzinger discusses the difficulties of getting the Curiosity rover to Mars with its massive payload of analytical instruments, and what it will do when it gets there15:55- Conjuring up gram quantities ...
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News
Water-catching spinout from synthetic spider silk
Bioinspired fibres could harvest water from fog and mist in parched areas
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News
Pilot project seeks to unfreeze methane hydrate promise
US energy department teams up with oil majors to investigate the viability of extracting methane from gas hydrates
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News
A shot in the arm for drugs for neglected diseases
Intellectual property sharing database will give researchers new leads in the fight against TB and malaria
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News
Escalating drug dearth spooks White House
Obama calls on FDA and Justice Department to clamp down on pharmaceutical industry after drug shortages triple
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NewsDo carbyne radicals really exist in aqueous solution?
Chemists in Israel have proposed that super-reactive carbon radicals with three unpaired electrons can survive in water
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News
A model for the single chirality of life
Single chirality crystals are generated through a temperature gradient in boiling solutions
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News
Faster synthesis of fluorine radioisotope imaging agents
Palladium reagent allows quick production of radio-labelled imaging molecules before isotopes pass best before
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News
Taming osmosis for steady drug delivery
A German start up has developed a disposable infusion pump that uses osmosis instead of electrical power