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Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Philip Robinson	Ultrafast NMR shows the way Chemists have created an ultrafast NMR technique that can 'watch' how chemical reactions occur in real time. They've used the technique to follow the formation of pyrimidines from carbonyls and even identified new intermediates never before thought to be part of the reaction.
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Simon Hadlington	UK chemistry student numbers hold steady University chemistry departments across the UK are breathing a sigh of relief as the number of people applying to study chemistry has held steady despite a large increase in tuition fees for degree courses in England and Wales.
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Elinor Richards	Magical microwaves Microwaves have been used to promote organic reactions since the 1980s and they can lead to higher yields and shorter reaction times than conventional heating, but why?
Chemistry World February 1, 2012 Steve Down	The world's strongest fibers The toughest polymer yarn of all time has been made by mixing a polymer with sheets of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes during spinning.
Chemistry World February 1, 2012 Jon Evans	Two become one for bio-oil upgrade The development of a couple of new and improved catalysts for upgrading bio-oil is bringing this novel approach to producing biofuels a step closer to the big time.
Chemistry World February 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: The energy conundrum Energy, the environment and sustainability all go hand-in-hand, providing multiple areas for chemists to make an impact, and so 2012 will be another opportunity for our discipline to shine.
Chemistry World February 2012	Column: The crucible To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball
Chemistry World February 2012 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioral oddities.
Chemistry World February 2012	Column: In the pipeline Every lab should have a common working language (presumably that of the country where it's located), and it should be the responsibility of every person in it to be able to at least get along with its basic vocabulary.
Chemistry World February 2012	Profiting from privatization The private sector offers significant benefits to public sector labs hampered by bureaucracy and financial constraints, argues Quentin Maxwell-Jackson
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Sung & Lee	Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light
Chemistry World January 31, 2012 Anthony King	Pesticides linked to vitamin D deficiency Pesticides could be suppressing people's vitamin D levels, leading to deficiency and disease, say scientists.
Chemistry World January 31, 2012 Yuandi Li	Molecular dynamics to combat chemical terrorism Computers can make finding new ways of decontaminating the deadliest known chemicals safer and easier, according to US researchers.
Chemistry World January 30, 2012 James Urquhart	Iron accumulation linked to neurogenerative disease Parkinson's and Alzheimer's could be caused by an accumulation of iron in regions of the brain, Australian researchers say.
Chemistry World January 29, 2012 Andy Extance	Calculations reveal carbon-carbon quadruple bond C 2's two carbon atoms aren't joined by a double bond as usually thought, or even a triple bond, but in fact a quadruple bond.
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 David Bradley	Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through UK researchers have created a graphene-based membrane that allows water through but not helium.
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 Simon Hadlington	The world's first magnetic soap Researchers have created a liquid surfactant that can be moved by a magnet.
Chemistry World January 25, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Conjuring graphene oxide from thin air Researchers on the hunt for a better way to recycle carbon dioxide have turned it into graphene oxide.
Chemistry World January 25, 2012 Jon Evans	Water repellent polymer slows down drug delivery It turns out that superhydrophobic materials are very good at slowly releasing drugs over extended periods of time, from weeks to months.
Chemistry World January 23, 2012 James Urquhart	Simple One Stop Shop for Difluoromethylation A new process developed by researchers opens the way for adding difluoromethyl (CF 2H) groups to drugs and agrochemicals in order to enhance their properties.
Chemistry World January 23, 2012 Steve Down	Asteroid Ages United by New Isotope Standard Meteorites derived from hydrous asteroids suggest that these space bodies formed later than other asteroids.
Chemistry World January 20, 2012 Andy Extance	Tube-wrapped lamp makes malaria drug German researchers have developed an inexpensive three-step continuous flow synthesis of artemisinin, the key drug in the ongoing fight against malaria.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Jon Evans	New microbe turns sugary seaweed into fuel Seaweed may soon be a source of biofuel, thanks to an engineered microbe able to transform seaweed directly into ethanol.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Elinor Richards	Korean doors inspire new energy converter In a setup resembling traditional Korean doors, scientists from Korea have made dye-sensitised solar cells that are bendy enough to be rolled around a pen and twisted, while maintaining their energy conversion efficiency at 90% of that of the flat form.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Rebecca Brodie	Efficiently harvesting the power of the sun Scientists from Japan and India have created a dye-sensitised solar cell with the highest recorded efficiency of 11.4%, breaking the record set five years ago.
Chemistry World January 18, 2012 Laura Howes	A simple separation solution for carbon nanotubes Single-walled carbon nanotubes exist in both metallic and semiconducting forms, but many of the applications of the materials require either one type or the other, making separation increasingly important.
Chemistry World January 17, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rainbow Hued Graphene Oxide Repels Water Scientists in China have used a laser to carve out a pattern of ridges and valleys on layered graphene oxide to mimic two of nature's tricks in one go - iridescence and superhydrophobicity.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule.
Chemistry World January 13, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Ionic polymers open door to greener, safer explosives Highly sensitive explosives could become safer and greener by exploiting newly characterised ionic polymer structures, say chemists in the US.
Chemistry World January 13, 2012 Helen Potter	Mineral regulates early metabolism Chinese scientists have taken a step towards further understanding the reactions that led to the origin of life by showing that a crucial metabolic process can be photocatalysed on the surface of a common mineral.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Composites Reinforced in 3D A method that uses magnetic fields to align tiny structural elements within a polymer matrix has been developed by scientists in Switzerland.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Russell Johnson	Staining tissue samples at the microscale A vertical microfluidic probe developed by researchers in Switzerland can create a range of immunohistochemistry staining conditions on a single tissue sample.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Shortages spur race for helium-3 alternatives The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, based in Tokai, needs 100,000 liters of helium-3 to run properly, but has secured only 85,000 liters.
Chemistry World January 11, 2012 Laura Howes	Sense-act-treat, the nanopharmacy on a patch You injure yourself and inevitably it hurts. But instead of heading to the medicine cabinet you're already starting to feel better, as your sense-act-treat patch kicks in and releases a pain killer.
Chemistry World January 11, 2012 Hayley Birch	Drive towards detecting drugs at the roadside The UK government is setting up an advisory panel that will assess the feasibility of roadside testing for drug driving, similar to testing for drunk driving.
Chemistry World January 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Amino acid residues give away bloodstain's age Chemists in the US have developed a quick and simple way to find out how old bloodstains are using natural fluorescence measurements.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington	A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	What does it take to improve laboratory safety? A series of high-profile incidents at US universities has prompted close examination of attitudes towards safety in academic chemistry laboratories.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Philip Robinson	Nanoear listens in on cellular motoring Just as the macroscopic world is filled with the rattle and hum of machinery, the actions of molecular and cellular machinery also produce tiny vibrations that resonate throughout the microscopic world.
Chemistry World January 8, 2012 David Bradley	The TNA world that came before the RNA one Once it was recognised that DNA is key to the molecular self-replication that underpins life, chemists have sought to understand the origins of this double-helical molecule in that primordial age.
Chemistry World January 6, 2012 Tegan Thomas	Blood barrier gel aids medical analysis US scientists have developed a separator gel that can form a permanent barrier between blood components when exposed to ultraviolet light.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes	Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Helen Bache	Cleaning Cadmium From Blood With the development of modern industries, heavy metal pollution in humans is on the rise, say researchers in China, who have now designed a supermagnetic nanocomposite to effectively remove one of the pollutants - cadmium ions - from blood.
Chemistry World January 4, 2012 Carl Saxton	Controlling termites with nanoparticles Scientists in Australia have found that mesoporous silica nanoparticles can store and deliver biocides in a controlled fashion over time, which could be beneficial to the timber industry with regards to termites.
Chemistry World January 3, 2012 Simon Hadlington	One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division.
Chemistry World January 2012	DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success
Chemistry World January 2012	Column: The crucible Why do some combinations of flavors strike us as appealing and others as peculiar?
Chemistry World January 2012 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic What a Japanese team demonstrates in this synthesis of dragmacidin D is the state of the art, uniting all the key fragments using C-H bond couplings.
Chemistry World January 2012	Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses how companies are increasingly trying to do more with the compounds they already know a lot about
Chemistry World January 2012	Rising interest in compound bank David Fox argues for the creation of a centralized repository for small molecules to harness research efforts in drug discovery
Chemistry World January 2012	Cultivating collaboration A new network aims to bring the power of interdisciplinary innovation to bear on global food issues.
Chemistry World January 2012	A new year and a new dawn As the International Year of Chemistry drew to a close last year, we were delighted to see the future of chemistry in the UK being bolstered with two universities planning to reopen their chemistry departments
Chemistry World December 22, 2011 Laura Howes	Artificial hips glide on graphite Metal-on metal hip replacements are lubricated by a layer of graphite, say scientists in the US.
Chemistry World December 22, 2011 Catherine Bacon	All clear for tiny capsules of goodness Israeli scientists have created nanocapsules based on natural food materials and loaded them with hydrophobic vitamins and other nutraceuticals (health-promoting micronutrients).
Chemistry World December 21, 2011 James Urquhart	For clean carbon dioxide conversion just add water Japanese researchers have shown that photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 is possible using water as the reducing agent.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Robert Tjian	President's Letter: Intellectual Ferment There are exciting connections between chemistry and biology from both "sides" of the disciplinary divide.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams.	Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad	Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams	Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems.
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