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Chemistry World July 26, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Acetone breathalyzer to help fight the flab The device measures levels of acetone on the breath, a by-product of fat metabolism. |
Chemistry World July 26, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Gas specialist branches out into carbon nanotubes Industrial gas specialist Linde Group has branched out into carbon nanotubes, launching SEER e- ink. The ink contains long, individual single-walled nanotubes suspended in dimethylsulfoxide. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2013 Laura Howes |
Artificial leaf in the shade but still growing Can chemists create a cheap artificial leaf that is more efficient than its natural counterpart? |
Chemistry World July 25, 2013 Rowan Frame |
Nanomagnets clean blood Nanoparticles that never have to enter the body can capture harmful components in blood, scientists in Switzerland have shown. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres |
Long-life lithium sulfide batteries Scientists from the US and China have identified a polymer that makes lithium sulfide batteries last longer. |
Chemistry World July 24, 2013 |
Spectrometry for the masses A mass spectrometer ionizes chemical compounds to generate charged molecules or molecular fragments and allows the measurement of the molecular mass of a sample. Mass spectrometry continues to move forward, shaping new scientific fields in the process. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2013 Michael Parkin |
Forensic fingers A team in the US has developed a detection system that crime scene investigators can wear on their fingertips to rapidly identify suspected traces of explosives and gunshot residue. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2013 Sonja Hampel |
Antigenic sugars identified for Chagas disease Scientists have synthesised the combinations of sugars from the surface of the Chagas disease parasite that trigger the human immune response to it. This could help establish better diagnostic tests for the disease, and even a vaccine. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2013 John Nicholson |
Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys! As Michael Freemantle shows in his book, the use of chlorine was only a small part of the role that chemists played in this terrible conflict of World War I. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2013 Anthony King |
Microwave quarrel heats up A brouhaha over microwave heating in organic reactions has escalated after the two research groups involved penned barbed correspondences aimed at each other's approaches in Angewandte Chemie. |
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