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Chemistry World March 7, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Killer crystals turn pyroelectricity on bacteria Crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate powdered and formulated as nanoparticles can act as a disinfectant, killing bacteria at only moderate temperatures, according to researchers in Germany.
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Holly Sheahan	Piezoelectricity improves solar cell efficiency US researchers have come up with an explanation for their recent results that show that introducing piezoelectric semiconductor nanowires into solar cells improves their efficiency.
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Andrea McGhee	Nanowires heading in the right direction Scientists in Switzerland have controlled the supramolecular self-assembly of polymers to form nanofibrils that could be used as organic nanowires in electronic devices.
Chemistry World March 1, 2012 David Bradley	Roaming reactions double up in atmospheric chemistry Chemists have found a chemical reaction that ignores its reaction coordinate and seemingly bypasses the conventional mechanics of transition state theory to display two distinct 'roaming' mechanisms.
Chemistry World February 24, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	How to measure solar cell efficiency correctly Compounding small mistakes in measuring that efficiency can lead to values up to five times higher than the true reading, says Henry Snaith from the University of Oxford, UK.
Chemistry World February 23, 2012 Laura Howes	Simple sensitive TNT detection Indian scientists have created a gel that gives a fluorescence response when exposed to particles of explosive trinitrotoluene
Chemistry World February 23, 2012 Russell Johnson	Powering up fuel cells A hydrogen fuel cell that uses carbon nanotubes to increase the amount of electrocatalyst attached to electrodes has been designed by UK scientists.
Chemistry World February 22, 2012 Nina Notman	Mapping the reactivity of single nanocatalysts 'Using super resolution imaging we can map out where catalytic reactions occur on a single nanocatalyst,' says Peng Chen, the lead researcher based at Cornell University.
Chemistry World February 21, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Nanopore sequencing bags its first genome Oxford Nanopore has presented the first complete genome to be sequenced using a nanopore.
Chemistry World February 21, 2012	Treat science as a hobby Jie Liu talks to Heather Montgomery about his scientific inspirations and the next big breakthrough in carbon nanotube research.
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