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Chemistry World
September 4, 2014
Hayley Simon |
Lead 'soaps' behind iconic artwork damage uncovered Lead stannate, Pb 2SnO 4, has been identified as the culprit responsible for disfiguring masterpieces by Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent and Johannes Vermeer.   |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2014
Debbie Houghton |
Waste office paper comes to a sticky end A process for generating aluminium -- aluminium bonding adhesives from waste office paper could give a purpose to paper than can no longer be recycled into more paper. |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2014
Emma Stoye |
De-gassing gas masks with hydrogen peroxide Those involved in the clear-up of chemical weapons are kept safe by protective clothing such as gas masks. But how do you de-contaminate a gas mask and safely dispose of it when it is a chemical hazard? |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
'Unifying theory' proposed for carbon monoxide oxidation on supported gold nanoparticles US researchers believe they have uncovered the means by which gold nanoparticles sitting on a support of titanium dioxide can oxidise carbon monoxide at low temperatures. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Andrea Sella |
Wollaston's reflective goniometer William Hyde Wollaston (1766 -- 1828). English scientist. He devised a method for purifying platinum, discovered palladium and rhodium, and invented a device for measuring crystal angles |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Hayley Simon |
Noble treatment for PTSD Xenon may one day become a promising new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder following an investigation by researchers at Harvard Medical School, US. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Iron Age chemists ate like kings Archaeologists in Israel have found new evidence that Iron Age 'chemists' -- metal smelters who could extract copper from its ore -- dined on fine meat and fish, and were admired and respected for their ability to get valuable metal from lumps of rock. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
Chemistry World
September 2, 2014
Jon Cartwright |
Flexible solar cell woven into fabric There could soon be a way to power wearable electronics indefinitely, now that scientists in China have developed a solar cell 'textile' that could be woven into clothes. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Wendy Brown: Space dust chemistry Professor Wendy Brown's research reproduces the cold and low pressures of space to model chemical reactions that occur when particles are brought together on interstellar dust grains. |
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