November 2008
Vol 45, No 6. Selected articles and reviews available online to all. Full issue available online to subscribers.
Column
Chemistry's grand challenges
UK chemists identify main areas for research funding for the next 20-40 years.
CFOF rolls out to Wales
Chemistry for our future (CFOF) awarded £183k over the next two years for outreach projects in Wales.
The Science Diploma update
The content of the Science Diploma, which will be available at three levels, is beginning to take shape.
RSC teacher fellow 2008-09
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) teacher fellow for 2008-09 is Anthony Hardwicke.
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SET award goes to UCL chemist
Vijay Chudasama, University College London, picks up best chemistry student prize at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards.
Inspiring the gifted and talented
How do we encourage the best chemistry students in schools and colleges to go on to study chemistry at university and become the next generation of chemistry teachers?
European chemistry education database
SusChem launches online database of European education activities in sustainable chemistry.
In brief
Items: Various short items
Soundbite molecules
Simon Cotton, teacher at Uppingham School, takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: methylene blue
Did you know?
Ted Lister, chemical education consultant, shares anecdotes to help you add that 'wow' factor to your lesson. In this issue: the discovery of Teflon
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry In this issue: when particles floc together
Web watch
Tony Tooth, chemistry teacher at The King's School in Ely, looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: spectra, ICT materials and molecules...
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, November 2008
Exhibition Chemistry
Exhibition chemistry
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination, by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: the reaction between aluminium and bromine
The Elements
The Elements
John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: gold - colourful in the colours it exhibits, and in its chemistry and uses
Features
Supercritical processing
Chemists at the University of Nottingham use supercritical fluids to process polymers for drug delivery systems and for tissue engineering.
Radioactivity discovered
Centenary celebrations for the founding fathers of radioactivity - Henri Becquerel and Ernest Rutherford.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an invaluable tool in diagnostic medicine.
Maths for Chemists
Maths for chemists - what every teacher of chemistry needs to know
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University In this issue: Rearranging equations
Distillates
Mopping up heavy metals
Chinese chemists develop magnetic 'nanomould' particles to clean up toxic chromium compounds from industrial waste water
Carbon unfurled
US scientists use scanning tunnelling microscopy to reveal the electronic properties of graphene
Rocky water source
Scientists in the Netherlands are working to release trillions of litres of clean water from gypsum found in the desert
Communicating with logical chemistry
Italian chemists build a simple glowing molecule that promises to speed up data transmission
Reviews
Chemistry jigsaws
Peter Hollamby
Chemistry in the garden
J. R. Hanson
It's a gas DVD
Peter Wothers
Endpoint
'How science works' at A-level
Andrew Hunt has the last word
Infochem
