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Chemistry World January 17, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Nanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013 As we welcome in 2013, will nanotechnology continue to dominate many of the scientific headlines in the coming year, just as it has done over the past decade?  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2013 David Bradley |
Casting a shadow over green light bulbs New research suggests that the environmental legacy of the toxic metals in CFLs and LEDs, including copper, lead, mercury and zinc, needs to be given greater consideration by policymakers formulating strategies to cut energy use.  |
Information Today January 17, 2013 |
Wiley Acquires Assets of FIZ Chemie Berlin John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of the FIZ Chemie Berlin, a provider of online database products for organic and industrial chemists.  |
Chemistry World January 16, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Azo-cops nab CO 2 but let N 2 go free Scientists have developed a new class of porous polymer that can efficiently trap carbon dioxide while actively rejecting nitrogen.  |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure.  |
Chemistry World January 15, 2013 Josh Howgego |
Spectrometry to the rescue! The next time a major earthquake strikes it could be an ion mobility spectrometer, not a sniffer dog, searching for people trapped in the rubble. The instrument can detect a pattern of 12 chemicals that signal the presence of life.  |
Chemistry World January 14, 2013 Anthony King |
Sweetener in the clear once more The artificial sweetener aspartame has been given the all-clear by the European Food Safety Authority. After an evaluation of 'all available information' the authority concluded that aspartame poses no safety concerns for consumers.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2013 Laura Howes |
Nanotube fiber production in a spin No, that light bulb isn't floating in thin air, it's suspended by two 24 m thick fibers spun from carbon nanotubes. An international collaboration led by Matteo Pasquali, at Rice University in the US, has developed a method of manufacturing high-performance CNT fibers using wet spinning.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2013 Marie Cote |
Following her passion Veronique Gouverneur is professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. She investigates fluorine chemistry and is working on developing novel synthetic methodologies for the preparation of fluorinated targets.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Quantum timepiece ticks the right boxes In a remarkable feat of quantum horology, scientists in the US have created a clock that derives its timing mechanism from nothing more complicated than the mass of an atom. The new clock could prove to be a new way to make highly accurate measurements of atomic mass.  |
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