All articles by Chemistry World – Page 54
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Opinion
Letters: August 2005
From Derrick Stevens There has been a lot of publicity recently concerning the use of hydrogen as a ’clean’ fuel. Three hydrogen-fuelled London buses which cost £1 million each are covered in slogans proclaiming the fact that they emit only water in their exhaust, and no less a ...
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News
26 July 2005: 'Pen' detects peroxide-based explosives
Researchers have developed a pocket-sized device for detecting sub-milligram quantities of peroxide-based explosives such as those reportedly used in the recent bomb attacks in London.
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News
12 July 2005: Opportunities for chemists worldwide
Tremendous opportunity awaits chemists over the next 10 years, predicts Bill Carroll, president of the American Chemistry Society (ACS).
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Opinion
Letters: July 2005
I am in complete agreement with the views expressed by Huw Pritchard in his letter (Chemistry World, June 2005, p31). In my first chemistry lesson in 1961 the master was talking about the action of metals on water. He illustrated his talk by dropping pieces of sodium ...
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Review
Probing electronic structure
Electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy: fundamentals and case studies
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News
27 June 2005: Patience wears thin for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
New European Union legislation requires tyre manufacturers to reformulate their products by 2010 in order to curb emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
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News
22 June 2005: World's fastest ice cream freezes in seconds
It's official; the world's fastest ice cream maker is polymer physicist Peter Barham from the University of Bristol, UK.
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News
Future of nanotech on the high street unclear
It is far too early to herald the arrival of a nanotechnological revolution on the high street, cautions leading German nanotechnologist and textiles expert, Eckhard Schollmeyer.
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Opinion
Letters: June 2005
From Roger Fenwick I noted with interest two references to the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in your May edition (pages 2, 7). That chemistry is very much to the fore in the Commission’s recently-published working paper reflects the hard work of national societies, FECS/EuCheMS and Cefic in recent ...
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News
MRI agent developed for angiogenesis
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that targets the growth of new blood vessels has been developed by scientists in the Netherlands.
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News
26 May 2005: Finnzymes beats innovators to BioFinland prize
Finnish Biotech company Finnzymes won the ?10 000 (£6 740) BioFinland prize at last month's BioFinland 05 congress in Helsinki, Finland
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News
19 May 2005: European knowledge on the world stage
Management of knowledge in terms of education, research and innovation will be crucial to Europe, according to Janez Potocnik, European commissioner for science and research.
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News
17 May 2005: Developing renewable energy
Mexican experts discuss clean energy with G8 representatives
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News
16 May 2005: International chemical identifier goes online
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has released the first version of its long-awaited International Chemical Identifier.
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News
13 May 2005: Durham gets bioactive
The University of Durham, UK, has launched an integrated biological chemistry centre to develop interdisciplinary research in biological chemistry and bioengineering.