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Chemistry World November 10, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Watching chemical gardens grow Plant-like formations -- known as chemical gardens -- were discovered more than 300 years ago, yet scientists still don't know exactly which factors influence their growth. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2014 Anthony King |
Homes can wrap up warm with super-insulating foam A super-insulator and fire retardant foam has been created by freezing together cellulose nanofibres, graphene oxide and clay nanorods. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2014 Katrina Kramer |
Stressed ligands switch catalysis selectivity Researchers have discovered that enantioselectivity in palladium-catalyzed reactions depends on the ligand's intramolecular strain. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2014 Elisabeth Bowley |
Energy positive treatment for fracking water Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a technique that can simultaneously remove organic pollutants and salinity from contaminated water while producing energy. |
Chemistry World November 4, 2014 Cally Haynes |
Expanding the supramolecular toolbox Macrocyclic scaffolds have been hugely influential in supramolecular chemistry and now scientists in China have synthesized a new addition to this pool of chemical building blocks. |
Chemistry World November 4, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Pressure-sensitive coating makes swallowed batteries safer Scientists have developed a protective coating for button cell batteries that stops curious children that swallow them from being injured. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Earth ripe for life soon after formation There has been water on Earth since shortly after it formed, say researchers from the US, who compared the deuterium to hydrogen ratios in water on Earth and from the Vesta asteroid belt. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2014 Debbie Houghton |
Engineered metalloenzyme catalyses Friedel -- Crafts reaction Reprogramming the genetic code of bacteria to incorporate an unnatural amino acid has allowed scientists in the Netherlands to create a new metalloenzyme capable of catalyzing an enantioselective reaction. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2014 John Mann |
In retrospect: from the pill to the pen One glaring Nobel Prize omission from the pantheon of life-changing drugs is the contraceptive pill. As one of the probable prize recipients, Carl Djerassi is, I believe, justly bitter about this oversight. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2014 |
An interdisciplinary celebration Rather than some biologists being woken up by a call from Stockholm to discover they are chemists, as the old joke goes, this year it was two physicists and a physical chemist. |
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