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Chemistry World
March 24, 2010
Hayley Birch |
The key to colloid assembly US researchers have a developed a simple lock-and-key type mechanism that drives the self-assembly of colloid particles. They say their work offers a new approach for building tiny machines with movable parts.   |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
A crowded neighbourhood US researchers have broken the record for a compound with the highest coordination number - the number of neighbours an atom is capable of binding to. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2010 |
Comment: Can we halt the flow of new designer drugs? Could the dangers of 'legal high' mephedrone have been predicted? Of course they could, says John Mann |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles successfully deliver RNA interference in cancer patients The system aims to exploit the phenomenon of RNA interference, where short sequences of double-stranded RNA, called small interfering RNA or siRNA, can trigger the disruption of the manufacture of certain proteins in a cell. |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Drinking water from sunlight and seawater A device that can 'push' the salt out of seawater has been developed by US researchers. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
New self-replication system governed by mechanical force Intriguingly, the type of force applied to the system dictates the pattern of self-replication. The work could have implications for the origins of life on Earth. |
Chemistry World
March 16, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Making 'armoured' T-shirts Boron carbide - the third hardest material on earth - has been built into the fabric of cotton T-shirts, dramatically increasing its toughness. |
Chemistry World
March 15, 2010
James Urquhart |
All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Striking algal oil Algal oil is being touted as a hot new source of environmentally friendly fuel, but methods to work out which strains of algae will be best to use are painfully slow and error-prone. |
Chemistry World
March 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Shape-shifting polymers A US researcher has shown how a so-called shape memory polymer - a material which can take on a temporary shape and then return to its permanent shape in response to an external stimulus - has the unusual ability to 'memorize' a range of different shapes. |
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