News from across RSC Publishing.
Issue 9
Instant Insight
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.
Interview
Interview: A catalytic lifetime
20 August 2007
Bob Grubbs talks to Alison Stoddart about the beginnings of organometallic chemistry and his search for the next catalyst
Research Highlights
Hands-on chiral switching
23 August 2007
Scientists are a step closer to the precise control of chirality at the molecular level thanks to a quantum chemical study.
Polluted penguin poop
30 July 2007
Penguin guano in the Antarctic is adding to organic pollutant problems there, say Belgian scientists.
Window into nanospace could boost batteries
08 August 2007
Investigating how nickel hydroxide crystals grow in nanospace could lead to improved performance of rechargeable batteries, say scientists in Japan.
Cure for Chagas' disease a step closer
03 August 2007
Combining chemical and enzymatic approaches brings promise of a cure for a debilitating parasitic disease.
Latest biomaterials offer fuel cell hope
06 August 2007
Carbon nanotube scaffolds that can support bacterial cells could be used as electrodes in microbial fuel cells.
Enzyme activity at the flick of a switch
14 August 2007
A switchable bioelectronic system can catalyse the transformation of alcohols to aldehydes 'on demand'.
Moulding scaffolds for cartilage growth
21 August 2007
Rubber moulds have been used to shape a fibrous scaffold for growing replacement cartilage.
Temperature responsive cell scaffolding
02 August 2007
A porous polymer scaffold for tissue engineering, which has tuneable cell adhesion, has been developed by Swedish and Belgian scientists.
Deeply Bodipy
16 August 2007
An unusually stable dye based on the well-known Bodipy structure could find use in anti-forgery systems.
Radicals in a spin
28 August 2007
Selenium-based radicals show unusually high magnetic ordering temperatures.
Essential Elements
Five fast and first-rate years
As celebrations for the 5th year of publishing for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) continue, RSC Publishing staff have been reflecting on the activities and successes.
Issue 30 of Journal of Materials Chemistry hosts a theme issue dedicated to New Energy Materials.
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