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Chemistry World August 17, 2012 Philip Ball |
Getting under water's skin The surface tension of water is explained in textbooks with pictures showing water molecules pulling each other sideways and downwards at the liquid surface, producing a kind of surface 'skin'.  |
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Philip Ball |
Water's Surface is Acidic Pure, neutral water has an acid skin. This striking notion has now been confirmed by calculations and tests by an international team of scientists. The finding could be significant for a number of disciplines.  |
Chemistry World August 17, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Plasma Treatment to Use Patient's Proteins to Improve Medical Device Biocompatibility Researchers have developed a plasma treatment that can make any medical device biocompatible by sticking a patient's own proteins to it.  |
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Richard Massey |
Ionic liquid-gas interfaces: more than a surface glance Research by scientists in the UK suggests that small changes in the nature of binary ionic liquid systems can significantly alter their surface composition.  |
Chemistry World December 19, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Snapshot of Proteins Linked to Autism Researchers in France and the US have caught on camera the gentle embrace between two proteins that sit on either side of the junction between nerve cells. It's this short circuit that has thought to cause some types of autism.  |
Chemistry World October 17, 2011 Andy Extance |
Water erodes 'lock and key' drug model US researchers have dealt a severe blow to the idea of a single 'hydrophobic effect' that can help explain how all drugs dock with proteins.  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2015 Philip Ball |
Nanotube desalination could be put back on track Computer simulations by researchers in China show what seems to be holding up this technology -- and suggest a way round the problem.  |
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.  |
Chemistry World March 6, 2011 Mike Brown |
Molecules that walk, hop and jump 'Two legged' molecules walk, hop and fly across a receptor surface, according to researchers in the Netherlands and Ireland. The findings could help us understand how viruses and bacteria interact with cell membranes, they say.  |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 Kira Welter |
Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions.  |
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
A Chequerboard of Water Water droplets cling in flat squares and dance in round globes on a smart surface created by South Korean researchers. Exposure to light wipes away the pattern, and an alternative can be written in with no etching required.  |
Chemistry World July 4, 2010 Hayley Birch |
DNA sticks at flick of switch A new technique that sticks individual DNA molecules to a gold surface works at the flick of an electrochemical switch.  |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined.  |
Chemistry World May 2012 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball is perplexed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 's decision to cut surface science funding  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Micro waterflows make power Apply electricity to a microscopic tube of water and the water flows. Turn the equation around and force water through the tube instead, and electricity flows. Put enough of the tiny tubes together -- several million or so -- and you get useful amounts of power, and a new, clean source of energy.  |
Chemistry World May 10, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
New Electrode Material for High-Capacity Lithium Batteries US researchers presented details of a new electrode material for rechargeable batteries which, they claim, can store almost twice as much charge as conventional electrodes.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Charges make micro whirlpools Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have devised a way to define tiny patterns that carry positive, negative or neutral charge on the surface of a microchannel.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2012 Andy Extance |
Protocells called thermal springs home The first 'protocells' may have arisen in puddles of liquid spewed onto the ancient Earth's surface by thermal springs rather than near deep sea hydrothermal vents.  |
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Laura Fisher |
Battery buffer takes the strain Researchers in China and the US have developed a layered oxide that shrinks when ions are intercalated into it, with the hope of buffering the volume expansion seen in common electrode materials.  |
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Why is silver deposition so fast? Researchers appear to have solved one of electrochemistry's more baffling mysteries: why it is that metal ions deposit onto an electrode at an apparently unfeasibly fast rate.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Helen Bache |
Cleaning Cadmium From Blood With the development of modern industries, heavy metal pollution in humans is on the rise, say researchers in China, who have now designed a supermagnetic nanocomposite to effectively remove one of the pollutants - cadmium ions - from blood.  |
Chemistry World February 2007 Philip Ball |
The Crucible Molecular biology isn't just about the cleverness of proteins and nucleic acids. Even the molecules often assumed to be just part of the scaffolding, such as lipids, and the very water that bathes them all, may have inventive roles to play.  |
Chemistry World May 6, 2010 Andy Extance |
Nanotube chip creates bioelectronic link A protein coupled with a carbon nanotube has provided a previously unavailable direct biological-to-electronic interface, which its developers hope could lead to brain-controlled prosthetic devices.  |
Geotimes June 2006 Stephen L. Gillett |
A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology.  |