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Spinning webs with microfluidics
New method mimics spiders to produce microscale fibres and tubes
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Spontaneous self-building silicate structures
A new way to make silicate nanoparticles that spontaneously self-assemble.
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Stability to the core
Corrosion-resistant, stable magnetic nanomaterials have been made by German researchers
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Sticky tubes? Just add water
Japanese and US researchers tackle the problems of nanotube hydrophobicity
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Supercritical problems dissolved
The possibility of using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) as a cheap and effective reaction medium may soon become a reality thanks to a team of UK scientists.
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Synthesis: All aboard the train for Africa
Flow chemistry doesn't immediately spring to mind alongside the word Africa, but the marketing team at technology company Syrris, Royston, UK, hope to change that
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The chemist's guide to. April 2005
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Smart-1 space probe entered the Moon's orbit late in 2004. So what's chemistry got to do with it?
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Tossing Pebbles into cells
Scientists in the UK, have found a simple way to introduce sensors into cells without causing them stress
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Toxicology: A whiff of controversy
Air fresheners stink - or so new research would have us believe.
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Turning it blue on the catwalk
The ancient art of extracting indigo from woad is being updated by biochemists
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Chemists force platinum partnership
Novel compound heralds opportunities at the right hand side of the periodic table
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Chemists probe the perils of attachment
Enzyme activity is altered when proteins are adsorbed onto carbon nanotubes
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Chips with everything
A new way to gather chemical information quickly and cheaply has been developed by UK chemists
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Crushing resistance by destroying plasmids
Natural plasmid incompatibility could help combat antibiotic resistance
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Education: Cuts hit chemistry
In the closing weeks of 2004, two UK universities announced their intentions to withdraw undergraduate chemistry courses
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Forensics: The twilight world of the clandestine chemist
In a laboratory somewhere in the north of England a distinguished analytical chemist is synthesising illegal drugs using recipes and protocols downloaded from clandestine websites on the internet.
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Giving liquid crystals the brush-off
Polymer molecules in the shape of tiny brushes can help liquid crystals line up on a surface