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Chemistry World May 24, 2013 Emma Stoye	Chad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year In particular, the award recognises Mirkin's development and successful commercialization of spherical nucleic acids. He has more than 900 patents to his name and has founded four spin-out companies.
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Releasing reactive oxygen Scientists in Canada have made nanoparticles that release singlet oxygen when a laser beam is shone on them. The nanoparticles could improve the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy, a treatment for some cancers.
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 David Bradley	Microwaves show their hand The chirality of a gas phase molecule held in an electric field can be revealed using microwave spectroscopy. Hooking the technique to a separation step might even be exploited to isolate a specific enantiomer from a racemic mixture of both forms.
Chemistry World May 23, 2013 Laura Howes	Filming phonons The latest work at University College London, UK. involved hitting the nanocrystals a laser pulse of infra red light to set the nanocrystal vibrating, before taking snapshots of the vibrations with femtosecond X-ray pulses.
Chemistry World May 23, 2013 Rachel Cooper	The power of multivalency against cholera An international team of scientists has synthesized a cholera inhibitor that matches both the valency and target sugar of the cholera toxin. The molecule is 100,000 times better at trapping the cholera toxin than inhibitors based on the target sugar alone.
Chemistry World May 23, 2013 James Urquhart	Understanding sulfa drugs' side effects Researchers in Switzerland have discovered how sulfonamide drugs - the first antimicrobial drugs to be discovered in the 1930s - cause the neurological side effects that sometimes occur following treatment.
Chemistry World May 22, 2013 Philip Ball	Life forming Briony Marshall's exhibition, Life Forming, features various chemistry inspired sculptures.
Chemistry World May 21, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Silver nanoparticles see the light Researchers have stumbled across a simple but as yet unexplained way to make silver nanoparticles luminescent. The finding is important because luminescence is often used to track the movement and location of nanoparticles -- within cells, for example.
Chemistry World May 21, 2013 Yuandi Li	Manipulating liquid metal marbles Researchers in Australia and Germany have made highly controllable actuators in the form of liquid metal marbles. The marbles have a nanoparticle coating that can be electrochemically manipulated to control their movement.
Chemistry World May 21, 2013 Nicholas Bryan	Nuclear and radiochemistry There are very few texts in print dealing with nuclear and radiochemistry, and so I was pleasantly surprised to see a new addition to the field by Konya and Nagy.
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