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Chemistry World June 24, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US chemical society loses legal battle with software firm The American Chemical Society (ACS) is reeling after being stymied for a second time in its attempt to sue the Columbus, Ohio-based research software provider Leadscope for stealing its intellectual property. Now ACS will likely have to pay Leadscope.
Chemistry World June 23, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New catalyst for hydrogen from formic acid Chemists in Germany have taken a leaf out of nature's book to develop a new, low-cost, iron-based catalyst powered by light that can extract hydrogen from formic acid.
Chemistry World June 22, 2010 Andy Extance	Powering up organic solar cells Organic molecules combining aromatic, lipophilic and hydrophilic segments can organise themselves into structures with five times the photoconductivity of structures like those typically adopted by aromatic groups alone.
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Simon Hadlington	First graphene touchscreen Researchers in Korea and Japan have fabricated films of graphene - planar sheets of carbon one atom thick - measuring tens of centimetres.
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Carbon nanotubes boost battery power Researchers in the US claim to have created electrodes from carbon nanotubes that can make lithium-ion batteries some ten times more powerful than conventional models.
Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Hayley Birch	Keeping the heat up for super-efficient solar cells US scientists have found a way to siphon off the 'hot' electrons that are responsible for much of the energy lost in current solar cells.
Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Andrew Turley	Biocatalyst improves diabetes drug production Researchers have developed an enzyme that can produce a difficult to form chiral amine in a best-selling diabetes therapy.
Chemistry World June 16, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Rotaxane molecule seen in action Researchers from the US and Japan have directly observed the ring of a rotaxane molecule shuttling along its spindle. The behaviour of the rotaxane is influenced by its molecular environment, something that is significant if the molecules are to be used as molecular machines.
Chemistry World June 15, 2010 Manisha Lalloo	Colour change test for brain chemicals Chemists in China have devised a system which uses gold nanoparticles to detect glucose in the brain, based on a simple colour change test.
Chemistry World June 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nicotine hit at the flick of a switch with new nanotube patch A membrane embedded with carbon nanotubes can deliver a pulse of nicotine at the flick of a switch - rather than the continuous diffusion of the drug through current skin patches.
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