News – Page 482
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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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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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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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Mixed solvents exfoliate graphene analogues
Chemists in China open up more possibilities to produce single-layer inorganic nanomaterials
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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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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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Interview: Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith tells Ruth Doherty why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus colour
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Solving a tangled polymer problem
A new model can predict flow behaviour of branched polymer melts like LDPE
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Business roundup: October 2011
Ireland still attractive to pharma industry Pharma and chemical products represent 50 per cent of Irish exports Less than a year has passed since internal economic turmoil in Ireland culminated in an unprecedented €83 billion (£71 billion) bailout, yet interest in pharma manufacturing in the country seems ...
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Breathing life into medical devices
Tiny piezoelectric polymer belts produce electricity from respiration
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Conjuring up gram quantities of stabilising anion
German chemists have made gram quantities of an extremely useful anion via a rather scary route
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Interview: Gilles Cottier
The president of SAFC has set ambitious growth targets that he plans to meet by sticking close to his customers
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Bacteria: the ultimate secret agent
Chemists have hidden secret messages in fluorescent bacteria using colour couplets to encode letters and punctuation
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Patching up patients with a heart of gold
Cell communication in a patch designed to heal damaged hearts can be improved using gold nanowires
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Electric vehicles set to charge ahead
Batteries may be the future for cars but there are still a number of technical hurdles to overcome
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Ammonium radical is atomic pretender
Computational simulations have demonstrated that the neutral ammonium radical behaves like a sodium atom
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Growing protest against Chinese chemical plants
As environmental awareness in China grows, so too is the number of protests against chemical plants
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Bio-based chemicals under environmental scrutiny
Technological improvements are needed to make some bio-based chemicals environmentally competitive
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Faster acting drugs
Ionic liquid versions of current drugs could reach their targets in the body more quickly
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Pitcher plant inspires ultimate non-stick surface
Scientists have created a surface so slippery that oil, jam and even insects just slide straight off it