All articles by Phillip Broadwith – Page 27
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Flexible hairy heartbeat sensor
Korean scientists have developed a skin-like flexible strain sensor made from interlocking forests of nanofibres
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Storm on the horizon for ozone levels
Summer storms can deplete ozone by injecting water into the stratosphere with implications for climate engineering
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Remote controlled omniphobic surface
A surface that oil and water slides off can be turned on and off using a magnet
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FeatureSequencing in the fast lane
Advances in DNA sequencing technology are changing the way scientists look at genomes. Phillip Broadwith gets up to speed with the latest developments
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Silky solution to storing vaccines and drugs
Freeze-drying pharmaceuticals in raw silk creates a simple and low cost way of keeping them fresh even in hot climates
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‘Molecular cobra’ turns C-H to C=C
A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains
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Building nanographene by organic synthesis
Japanese chemists are looking to direct cross-coupling of C–H bonds to build graphene from the bottom up
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FeatureDyeing for a place in the sun
Can dye-sensitised solar cells compete with silicon and emerging alternatives? Phillip Broadwith investigates
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Flerovium and Livermorium take seats at the periodic table
Names for elements 114 and 116 ratified by Iupac
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NewsPhoto-finish for Olympicene
UK chemists have synthesised and imaged a molecule that closely resembles the Olympic rings
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Borosulfate breaks through
German chemists have created what they say is the first of a new kind of free borosulfate anion cluster
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Keep stirring that Suzuki
Reactor shape can influence the behaviour of organotrifluoroborate compounds in Suzuki cross-coupling reactions, say chemists in the UK
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Static's secret rests with material exchange
Transfer of nanoscale fragments found to be far more important than previously thought for producing static charges
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Static's secret rests with material exchange
Transfer of nanoscale fragments found to be far more important than previously thought for producing static charges
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Germanium-oxygen double bond takes centre stage
World's first germanone created using bulky ligands to stabilise highly reactive bond
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Germanium–oxygen double bond takes centre stage
World's first germanone created using bulky ligands to stabilise highly reactive bond
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PodcastEthylene glycol
From polyester fibres to antifreeze, this little molecule makes it all possible
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Polymer thermometer picks out cells hotspots
A fluorescent polymer can be used to take the temperature of organelles within a cell
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Magnetic levitation to measure protein binding
Diseases could be diagnosed cheaply in the developing world using a simple device that measures density with magnets