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Chemistry World March 20, 2013 Harriet Brewerton	Period heat source gives thermoelectric power a boost Scientists in the US have found a way to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric power generators -- devices designed to convert heat directly into electricity.
Chemistry World March 12, 2013 Andy Extance	'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues Researchers exploited gold's ability to trap and concentrate light, creating oscillations in the electron cloud at its surface called surface plasmons.
Chemistry World March 8, 2013 Yuandi Li	High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise Scientists in Evanston, Illinois, and in Gaithersburg, Maryland have synthesized a metal organic framework in gram-scale quantities that has 67% of the deliverable storage density of gas cylinders, but at only a quarter of the pressure.
Chemistry World March 8, 2013 David Bradley	The next big thing in mass spectrometry Researchers have used quadrupole time-of-flight native MS to investigate intact capsids from a bacteriophage. While there is theoretically no upper limit on the mass of a particle that might be analyzed, the work is far from trivial in breaking the record.
Chemistry World March 7, 2013 Manisha Lalloo	Elusive water dimer detected at last Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, with a crucial role in the radiative and chemical processes taking place on Earth. Scientists have long debated the presence of water dimers.
Chemistry World March 6, 2013 Michal Leskes	Solid state NMR: basic principles & practice This book by Apperley et al., first considers different types of solids and their properties, followed by a detailed survey of the main NMR interactions and phenomena that govern the spectra.
Chemistry World March 5, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear	Blink and you'll miss it Scientists in Germany have developed a new method for tracking single fluorescent molecules, using linear programming solvers.
Chemistry World March 4, 2013 Harriet Brewerton	Co-factoring on a chip makes biocatalysis easy Stephan Mohr and colleagues have designed an efficient microfluidic biocatalysis device that uses and regenerates an artificial mediator, dimethyl viologen, which is cheaper than co-factors used currently.
Chemistry World February 28, 2013 Andy Extance	Chemical transport defines 'Goldilocks' cell size A US team has suggested molecular movement as an answer to the question of why cells are the size they are. A question that they say 'still awaits an answer from first principles'.
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Richard Henchman	Entropy and the second law: interpretation and misss-interpretationsss In the debate about the best way to teach and understand entropy in thermodynamics, Arieh Ben-Naim forcefully advocates the probabilistic interpretation of thermodynamic entropy in terms of (Claude) Shannon's measure of information.
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