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Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Derry Jones |
Life on the edge: Peter Danckwerts Few biographies of chemical engineers list and illustrate eight types of German explosive munition and describe how to defuse Italian frogmen's limpet mines, but such was the early life of Peter Danckwerts as described by author Peter Varey.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 James Urquhart |
New direction for flu drugs Researchers have developed a new class of anti-flu drug that could prevent new virus strains developing resistance and help control future pandemics while more effective vaccines are prepared.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 David Bradley |
Copycat flags help aliens avoid mouse immune system Synthetic peptide flags added to therapeutic and diagnostic agents can trick the immune system into ignoring them, according to US researchers.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 Philip Robinson |
Roy David 'Gus' Guthrie AM CChem FRSC (1934--2013) Roy David 'Gus' Guthrie, former Secretary General of the RSC, died on 12 January 2013 at Nambour Private Hospital in Australia. A passionate scientist and dedicated educator, Guthrie made significant contributions to the university system in Australia.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 Jon Cartwright |
Synthetic ultramarine's recipe revealed Camille Pissarro's The Cote des Boeufs, Claude Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Les Parapluies all have one chemical constituent in common: synthetic ultramarine.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 Akshat Rathi |
NO for longevity US researchers may have direct evidence for nitric oxide's apparent special powers, at least in the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 |
A biomass bonanza Companies have put biofuels on the back burner to aim for higher margin chemicals  |
Chemistry World February 20, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Ohmic heating for efficient green synthesis Portuguese scientists have developed a new ohmic-heating reactor for organic syntheses on water, or chemistry using an aqueous suspension of the reactants.  |
Chemistry World February 20, 2013 Graham Hutchings |
Design and applications of single-site heterogeneous catalysts This monograph by John Meurig Thomas shows how heterogeneous catalysis lies at the heart of achieving the goal of making chemical processes greener and cleaner, and using sustainable routes.  |
Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Bacteria clean-up after Gulf of Mexico disaster After the Deepwater Horizon disaster at Macondo prospect spilled 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, bacterial communities made a significant and little noticed contribution to the clean-up.  |
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