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Chemistry World June 26, 2015 Andrea Sella |
Van Valkenberg's anvil Alvin van Valkenberg, the American geochemist and gemmologist (1913 -- 1991), was the inventor of the diamond anvil cell |
Chemistry World June 25, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Graphene oxide 'teabags' make a mercury-free brew Water-cleaning tea bags containing a porous graphene oxide foam have been developed by researchers in Portugal, who say they can help purify water by removing dissolved mercury. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Z machine puts the squeeze on metallic deuterium Scientists in the US and Germany have successfully transformed liquid deuterium into a metal at pressures rivaling those at the center of our own planet. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2015 Karl Collins |
Dispelling nickel's catalytic demons In the world of transition metal catalysis, some still consider nickel less worthy than other metals. |
Chemistry World June 24, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Confronting the crystalline sponge A research group in the US has successfully simplified a crystallographic technique that scientists had struggled to get to grips with. |
Chemistry World June 24, 2015 Michael Gordin |
Chemical linguistics Many things are considered to be 'like language'. Music is one, mathematics another, chemistry a very close third. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Fruity alternative to toxic insecticides A compound found in fruit could be the safe insect repellent of the future, according to a group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside in the US. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Ultra-bright x-rays film molecular reaction A team working at the Stanford Linear Collider in California claims to have made 'the first molecular movie' using ultra-fast x-ray scattering from molecules as they undergo a chemical reaction. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Photo-catalysts shine light on chemical bond making A team of scientists from Israel and Germany have manipulated bond formation in a chemical reaction using high power lasers |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Missing the target There are enzymes that no mustard has ever cut, to steal a phrase from science fiction author James Blish. Phosphatases, the flip side of kinase activity, are a perfect example. |
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