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Instant insights
Highlights in Chemical Science's whirlwind tours of exciting research areas.
Instant insight: Sensing the biological world
17 November 2009
Jonathan Cooper and Manilo Tassieri explain how mechanical phenomena in biological systems can be studied at very small scales
Instant insight: Understanding our food
04 September 2009
Monika Pischetsrieder and Rainer Baeuerlein look at how the safety of GM food can be assured
Instant insight: The organic chemist's toolbox
17 July 2009
Karl Anker Jřrgensen and Sřren Bertelsen from Aarhus University, Denmark, talk about impressive achievements in organocatalysis
Instant insight: Harnessing nano power
11 June 2009
US scientists Andrei Fedorov and Mildred Dresselhaus and their colleagues explain how nanotechnology might solve our energy crisis
Instant insight: Agents of destruction
20 May 2009
Ivan Parkin and Michael Wilson from University College London, UK, look at how to make hospital-acquired infections a thing of the past
Instant insight: Living longer, disease-free
17 April 2009
Bernhard Michalke and colleagues at the Institute of Ecological Chemistry in Germany discuss our need for better methods to detect age-related diseases
Instant insight: The growth of nanotoxicology
20 March 2009
Christy Haynes and colleagues from the University of Minnesota, US, look at analytical techniques used to assess nanotechnology's effects on health
Instant insight: Metal detectors for clean fuel
09 February 2009
Guilhem Caumette, University of Pau - IFP, France, outlines the techniques used to find metal contaminants in petroleum and how they will lead to superior fuels
Instant insight: Polymers move smartly
04 December 2008
Hans-Jörg Schneider and Kazuaki Kato introduce polymers that respond to chemical and biological stimuli through movement
Instant insight: Porphyrins get energetic
27 November 2008
Jean-Pierre Sauvage outlines recent advances in the construction of interlocked molecules inspired by photosynthesis
Instant insight: Asbestos comes naturally
08 October 2008
Martin Harper, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US, points out a hazard in the natural environment
Instant insight: Is your food safe to eat?
29 September 2008
Gordon Shephard highlights the analytical methods used to ensure our food is free from the natural toxins produced by fungi
Instant insight: Lovely bubbly
05 September 2008
Gérard Liger-Belair, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, celebrates what gives champagne its sparkle
Instant insight: Tasting the chemistry
12 August 2008
Susan Ebeler, University of California, Davis, US, reveals the science behind the flavour in everyone's favourite tipple
Instant insight: Disease snapshots
24 July 2008
Hye Jin Lee and Robert Corn look at the latest breakthroughs in the use of microarray technology for the fast detection of cancer
Instant insight: Reducing the waste
24 June 2008
Tomislav Pintauer and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski reveal the magic ingredient that turns radical reactions 'green'
Instant insight: Cooperating catalysts
09 May 2008
Mark Davis explains why catalysts need to learn to cooperate in order to compete with nature
Instant insight: Swellable gels fix bad backs
16 April 2008
Brian Saunders and Tony Freemont discuss a new approach for treating back pain using injectable microgel implants
Instant insight: Nano-forms of carbon
03 April 2008
Juan Luis Delgado, María Ángeles Herranz and Nazario Martín explore the cutting-edge in nanostructures made from carbon
Instant insight: Smart dental implants
20 February 2008
Henning Schliephake discusses the state-of-the-art dental implants making their way to a dentist's surgery near you
Instant insight: Beyond the catastrophe
20 February 2008
Angus Cook and Phil Weinstein consider the long term care needed by communities struck by earthquakes and other natural disasters
Instant insight: Speeding up cocaine
11 February 2008
Chang-Guo Zhan introduces the use of computational designs to develop promising therapeutics for treating cocaine addiction and overdoses
Instant insight: The light touch
31 January 2008
Kishan Dholakia, Peter Reece and Min Gu examine how light can move and sort biological objects
Instant insight: Systems chemistry
19 December 2007
Sijbren Otto and Fred Ludlow call on chemists to embrace complexity and take up systems chemistry
Instant insight: A changing climate for coral reefs
12 December 2007
Janice Lough wonders if the demise of the world's coral reefs may already be irreversible
Instant insight: Mutants make more
13 November 2007
Andreas Kirschning explains how genetically modified microbes offer a short-cut to valuable derivatives of natural products
Instant insight: Walking in a hurricane
23 October 2007
Dean Astumian from the University of Maine, Orono, US, uncovers the mysteries of Brownian molecular machines.
Instant insight: A bright future
19 September 2007
Andy Benniston explains how photocatalysts could provide the answer to the planet's energy crisis.
Instant insight: The rough with the smooth
10 August 2007
Xue-Mei Li and Mercedes Crego-Calama share their view on how roughness influences surface wettability.
Instant insight: An adsorbing tale
11 July 2007
Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou at Miami University, Ohio, US, describes how metal-organic frameworks could play their part in the hydrogen economy.
Instant insight: Grinding is the new green
08 June 2007
Anne Pichon and Stuart James reveal some of the intriguing reactions that can be carried out without solvents.
Instant insight: In from the cold
03 May 2007
Bill Baker extols the virtues of cold-water marine natural products and considers their future prospects.
Instant insight: A protective layer
11 April 2007
David Levy explores thin-film coatings that drastically reduce UV damage to materials.
Instant insight: DNA Block Copolymers
16 March 2007
Fikri Alemdaroglu and Andreas Herrmann are making the most of a new class of bioorganic hybrid materials
Instant insight: Delivering the goods
09 February 2007
Stefaan De Smedt and Bruno De Geest of Ghent University, Belgium, weigh up the pros and cons of using polyelectrolyte capsules as drug delivery vehicles
Instant insight: A natural selection
23 January 2007
Jean-Marie Lehn of Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, shares his view of a dynamic future for supramolecular chemistry.
Instant insight: Cleaning up nuclear waste
13 December 2006
Willem Verboom considers some of the latest advances in separating highly radioactive components of nuclear waste.
Instant insight: True blue chemistry
23 November 2006
Heinz Berke, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, looks at the use of manmade blue and purple pigments by ancient civilizations
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