Chemistry

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Chemistry World August 21, 2012 Alan Dronsfield	Molecules at play Historian Alan Rocke has produced a translation of Herman Kopp's book, From the molecular world: a nineteenth century science fantasy.
Chemistry World August 20, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Fluoroborates Without the Etch A simple, practical method for making popular trifluoroborate reagents without etching glassware or tedious purification procedures has been developed by chemists in the UK.
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 Philip Ball	Getting under water's skin The surface tension of water is explained in textbooks with pictures showing water molecules pulling each other sideways and downwards at the liquid surface, producing a kind of surface 'skin'.
Chemistry World August 17, 2012	Crystals through the looking glass Crystalline, amorphous and, recently, quasicrystalline -- those are the phases of solid matter we all know. But US based scientists have now added another to that list.
Chemistry World August 16, 2012 Samantha Cheung	A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes US researchers have discovered that a derivative of vitamin B 2 can sort single-walled carbon nanotubes according to their handedness. The discovery could be an important step on the road to being able to simply separate left- and right-handed SWNTs.
Chemistry World August 15, 2012 Andy Extance	Cells step toward plugless charging What if you could charge your phone's battery by slotting it into the sole of your shoe and walking on it? That bizarre scenario has just become more likely, thanks to Zhong Lin Wang and his team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, US.
Chemistry World August 15, 2012 Steve Down	Single catalyst for oxidation and reduction of water European scientists have developed a catalyst based on cobalt that generates hydrogen from water in a simple electrochemical process using low overpotentials, with the added bonus that it can also be used to produce oxygen after anodic equilibration.
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 James Urquhart	Flexible lighting is on a roll Researchers in Sweden and Denmark have made flexible light emitting sheets using an efficient roll to roll printing method akin to newspaper printing.
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance	Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally.
Chemistry World August 13, 2012 Anthony King	Non-stick coating gives biofilms the slip A new class of material has been created that bacteria find incredibly hard to stick to. An estimated 80% of infections acquired in hospitals involve sticky biofilms of bacteria that build up on surfaces and it is challenging is to reduce their growth on medical devices, such as catheters.
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