All articles by James Mitchell Crow – Page 3
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Feature
Leather looks to greener tanning
Despite a history going back thousands of years, the leather tanning industry is still using chemistry to improve its processes. James Mitchell Crow examines the latest environmentally friendly advances
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Careers
Tastefully done
Russell Keast’s early years as a chef gave him an appetite for science that took him out of the kitchen and into the lab, he tells James Mitchell Crow
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Research
MOF smashes gas storage ceiling
Recording-breaking metal organic frameworks adds weight to idea that they can mop up much more gas than previously thought
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Research
Watching single nanoparticles work
A new Raman technique has let chemists watch reactions taking place in real time
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Careers
Resourcing the resource boom
Kelly Scientific Resources has its work cut out supplying scientists for Australia’s expanding mining and environmental science sectors, learns James Mitchell Crow
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Feature
Stepping toward ideality
James Mitchell Crow wonders what would make the perfect organic synthesis
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Careers
The profits of poison
Glenn King tells James Mitchell Crow that when it comes to spider venom he just can’t get enough
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News
Polymer gel squeezes and strains like an intestine
The oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction powers a tubular gel that expands and contracts in waves
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News
plays host to quick xylene separation
Isomers of xylene simply separated in a process that could cut the energy costs of a wide range of chemical goods
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Feature
Keeping the tap on
James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth
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Feature
Bright sparks
From the Olympics to New Year's Eve events, fireworks are synonymous with celebration. James Mitchell Crow looks into some pyrotechnic research worth celebrating in itself
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News
Artificial enzymes close in on nature
A de novo designed zinc-binding protein is the closest synthetic mimic yet of the carbonic anhydrase enzyme
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News
Nanotubes with a split personality show solar promise
Self-assembled semiconducting nanostructures with two distinct electronic domains form the first nanowire heterojunctions
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News
Twist in the tale of improving gene therapy
Unravelling the physical properties of DNA molecules can help to up the efficiency of gene delivery into living cells
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News
Breathing life into medical devices
Tiny piezoelectric polymer belts produce electricity from respiration
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News
Zeolite catalysts under the fluorescence microscope
A fluorescence imaging technique borrowed from the life sciences illuminates catalyst particle performance
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News
Polymer side-chains on the slide
Rotaxane research inspires polymer materials with dynamic, stimuli-responsive structures
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Bringing cheap high-throughput catalyst screens to the masses
Rapid reaction screening approach automates the accidental discovery of new catalytic reactions
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Feature
Diamonds are for everything
No longer valued simply for its glamour and durability, diamond is turning its hand to applications in solar power, laser design and bionic eyes. James Mitchell Crow reports