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Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Laura Howes |
Carving graphene snowflakes with gases Beautiful flakes aren't made of ice but are instead etched into a sheet of graphene. A group at the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences in China, etched the graphene flakes using a flow of argon and hydrogen gas. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 David Bradley |
A sweet switch for an ageing heart Studies revealing how the protein elastin -- found in heart tissue and blood vessels -- responds electrically to glucose could offer new clues to problems that arise as we get older, including loss of elasticity in major blood vessels and arteriosclerosis. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Derry Jones |
A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson In the absence of full biographies of father and son, this book by Jaume Navarro, provides a short joint history of the electron and the Thomsons (especially JJ), and their interactions, with an emphasis on emerging science in the 1920s and early 1930s. |
Chemistry World April 22, 2013 Andrea McGhee |
Creating biodegradable electronics using shellac Scientists in Austria, Romania and Turkey have used the natural resin shellac to devise biocompatible organic field-effect transistors, which could help make electronic gadgets biodegradable and allow easier use of OFETs in the body. |
Chemistry World April 22, 2013 Rebecca Brodie |
Quicker checks for safer water Scientists in the Netherlands have developed and tested a new method that uses Raman spectroscopy to quickly identify harmful bacteria in drinking water. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2013 James Urquhart |
Solar boost for gas power stations US researchers are developing a system that could boost the efficiency of gas-fired power plants while reducing their greenhouse emissions. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2013 Yuandi Li |
Reducing the cost of perovskite solar cells A new way of making semiconducting perovskite-based solar cells could result in photovoltaic devices that are 70% cheaper than current commercial models, say UK scientists. |
Chemistry World April 16, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Polymer 'nano-suit' protects insects from vacuum Japanese scientists have shown that coating insect larvae with Tween-20, a common detergent, lets them survive the powerful vacuum inside an electron microscope. The technique could pave the way for high resolution live imaging. |
Chemistry World April 11, 2013 Philip Robinson |
Terahertz turns up fresco's hidden artwork Analytical scientists revealed a hidden work under one of the Louvre Museum's frescoes. The research is an example of the broadening field of terahertz spectroscopy, using wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation between microwave and infrared. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Emma Shiells |
Power-up with edible electronics Since 2008, Christopher Bettinger and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been working on biodegradable electronics for medical devices. |
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