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Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Laura Howes |
Battery boost for electric cars The UK government, in collaboration with industry, is to create a new UK energy storage R&D center to accelerate the development of batteries for vehicles. |
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA Scientists have created microfluidic devices containing single-stranded DNA 'curtains' for the first time, allowing scientists to study its interactions with proteins in real time. |
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Jennifer Newton |
Seeing cells under stress An analytical platform that imposes controlled mechanical strain onto live cells while monitoring changes in cell morphology and molecular signalling has been developed by scientists in Germany. |
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Laura Howes |
Sponges to mop up marine methane It may seem like the story from a children's cartoon, but Chinese scientist's claim that their sponge could suck up methane from the oceans, helping fight climate change and providing a new energy source at the same time. |
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Philip Ball |
Bright idea to probe bond order The order of multiple bonds can be uncovered using atomic force microscopy, according to Leo Gross of IBM Research in Zurich and his co-workers. |
Chemistry World September 11, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Funky fruit glitters for decades The shimmering multicoloured berries of the African shrub Pollia condensata are the first plant material to show structural color -- derived from their cellular configuration rather than pigments. |
Chemistry World September 11, 2012 Holly Sheahan |
Micromotors with built in compasses A collaboration between scientists in Germany and Singapore has produced a micromotor that can be controlled by a magnetic field. |
Chemistry World September 6, 2012 Elinor Hughes |
A uniform junction for uniform nanotubes In a bid to make structurally uniform carbon nanotubes for applications in optoelectronics, for example, and following on from work done to make uniform carbon nanoring sidewalls, scientists in Japan have now made a uniform junction unit for branched carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Light in the Lab We organic chemists do terrible things to our molecules. How about dissolving the starting materials up in a flask, shining a light into the mixture and coming back later to find it transformed into your product? That's photochemistry. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Carter M. Armstrong |
The Truth About Terahertz Anyone hoping to exploit this promising region of the electromagnetic spectrum must confront its very daunting physics |
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