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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006	Strong Growth in U.S. and Global Markets for Processing of Sol-Gel Ceramics and Glass The U.S. market for sol-gel processing of ceramics and glass will be worth $330 million this year, and is expected to reach $500 million by 2011. This represents 8.7 percent average annual growth rate.
Chemistry World July 11, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Spin Doctors Find New Way to Make Skin Scaffold Researchers have developed a new type of polymer scaffold support for growing cultured human skin cells. The team showed that the mechanical and geometric properties of the scaffold are far more important than any specific chemical property.
Chemistry World July 10, 2006 Jon Evans	Water Trapped in a Sugar Crystal A spectroscopy technique commonly used to study polymers has helped shed light on how a sugar protects certain organisms from dehydration.
Chemistry World July 10, 2006 Arthur Rogers	Outdoor Chores Outlawed Under restrictions triggered when ground levels of ozone -- an indicator of photochemical smog -- exceed set thresholds, French officials are empowered to ban certain activities in order to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds.
Science News July 8, 2006 Janet Raloff	Farm Fresh Pesticides In the U.S., for people who live near croplands, traces of agricultural chemicals can find their way into homes by hitchhiking on windblown dust. This is disturbing for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the link between pesticide exposure and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Chemistry World July 7, 2006 Henry Nicholls	Not on my Back Lawn Moles beware: the chemical repellent responsible for the fox-like odour given off by several species of fritillary plants has been identified, potentially boosting the gardener's armoury against their burrowing foes.
Chemistry World July 6, 2006 Jon Evans	Quick-Release Store for Light A collection of chemicals that can harvest the energy of light, storing and then releasing it on demand, has been unveiled by Swiss and German chemists.
Chemistry World July 6, 2006 Bea Perks	Nano-Urchins Unveiled Tweaking a standard chemical method to make nanotubes has provided researchers with a structure that looks just like a miniature sea urchin. The nano-urchin's spines could prove useful as scaffolding for further molecular construction.
Chemistry World July 6, 2006 Michael Gross	Insecticide Simplified A rapid, flexible way to make variants of potent insecticide molecules known as spinosyns could help to combat the growing problem of insect resistance, according to German chemists.
Chemistry World July 5, 2006 Jon Evans	Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface.
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