News – Page 591
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Chemical industry cautious about Obama presidency
Chemical companies worry Obama could bring over-regulation, but chemists upbeat at funding plans
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Design rules for wet-proof materials
New equations give surfaces that can resist wetting by any liquid
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BP quits carbon capture competition
Just three consortia will now compete for UK government funding to build a CCS demonstration plant
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Nanotube scales challenge mass spectrometers
Glut of nanotube devices holds promise for ultra-sensitive mass detection
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Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide
Peridotite could mop up billions of tons of carbon dioxide a year, study estimates
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Biodiesel from forest fungus
Patagonian fungus that converts cellulose to biodiesel could challenge theories on fossil fuel origins
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Plastic labware contaminant risk
Study warns that chemicals from plasticware could be compromising biological studies
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Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas
Fuel-forming reactions coupled to boost their efficiency
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A cleaner route to methanol
New catalytic process converts waste glycerol directly into methanol fuel
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FDA criticised by its own experts over BPA
US agency's BPA safety analysis 'inadequate' say science advisors
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Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot
Could synthesising natural products ever be as simple as making peptides?
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GSK snaps up Hepatitis drug developer
GSK is back on the acquisition trail with the purchase of hepatitis therapy experts Genelabs
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Popular agrochemical linked to frog disease
More evidence to blame atrazine for decades of amphibian decline
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Interview: Pierre Brondeau
Rohm and Haas's CEO-in-waiting discusses the company's imminent takeover by Dow
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Choosy yeasts pick out enantiomers
Selective fungi could help make useful chiral building blocks
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Business
Business roundup: November 2008
Huntsman wins Hexion court fight Huntsman has won its legal battle to force Hexion to honour its $10.6 billion (?5.4 billion) takeover deal, originally agreed in July 2007. In June 2008, Hexion declared that it was taking legal action in a bid to back out of the deal, claiming that ...