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Chemistry World April 4, 2014 Emma Stoye	Calculations predict new form of phosphorus Researchers in the US have predicted the existence of 'blue phosphorus' -- another layered phase -- using computational models.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Tim Wogan	Growing great graphene on germanium Macroscopic films of monolayer, single crystalline graphene free of the defects that dog other production methods have been grown on germanium.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Nanoporous anodes charge up Scientists in China and the US say a new anode material they have created represents a significant step forward in the development of long-life stationary lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage systems.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Philip Blower	Life atomic: a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine As a career chemist in the field of radioisotopes in medicine, I admit to a faint pride that an academic historian should trouble to chart the origins of my profession in such depth.
Chemistry World April 2, 2014 Megan Tyler	DVD diagnostics A pregnancy test based on standard DVD technology has the potential to be turned into a diagnostic platform that screens for abnormal pregnancies or even testicular cancer.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Jenifer Mizen	Caffeine-fuelled fix for runaway eye treatment Eye infection treatments that resist being blinked away could be formulated by co-crystallizing an antibiotic with caffeine.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Karl Collins	Reduced to clear Reducing amides to primary alcohols may instinctively seem like a simple functional group transformation. But as undergraduate chemists soon find out, this unfortunately isn't the case.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Bibiana Campos Seijo	A wide open competition The author comments on the 2013 Chemistry World science communication competition and the 2014 AkzoNobel UK science award.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Melanie Britton	Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI This book, written by Lauterbur's wife, Joan Dawson, is an interesting and often touching account of his life and of the discovery and development of MRI.
Chemistry World March 31, 2014 Kirsty Muirhead	Zinc ruled out as biomarker for Alzheimer's disease Scientists in Australia have added to evidence that no change in serum zinc concentration is seen in AD, and that decreasing zinc levels are instead a sign of ageing.
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