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Chemistry World March 28, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Copper catalysis sees the light Researchers in the US have shown that the oxide coating on copper nanoparticles can be stripped away by light, exposing the metallic, catalytic copper core.  |
Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Flow electrodes may enable large-scale sea water desalination Scientists from South Korea have modified a water treatment method called capacitive deionization, with the aim of desalinizing sea water on a large scale. Capacitive deionization uses an electric field to remove cations and anions from water flowing past two oppositely placed electrodes.  |
Chemistry World March 25, 2013 David Bradley |
Hydrogen bond under the microscope Scientists in Japan have designed a scanning tunnelling microscope tip that allowed them to measure electron transfer across a single hydrogen bond.  |
Chemistry World March 25, 2013 Andrea Sella |
Geiger's tube Hans Geiger was a German physicist (1882 -- 1945) and the inventor of the Geiger counter for measuring radioactivity.  |
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