A magazine providing a snapshot of the latest developments across the chemical sciences.
Issue 4
Instant Insight
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
Research Highlights
Getting to the truth of falling ice chunks
26 February 2008
Hazardous ice chunks that fall from the sky are the result of complex atmospheric processes, say a team of Spanish scientists
Shapely polymers get the green light
28 February 2008
Determining the transition temperature of shape-memory polymers is now much easier, thanks to work by US materials chemists
Complex medicines
29 February 2008
Inorganic chemists working in India have made a series of ruthenium complexes with antibacterial and antifungal properties
Edible electricity
03 March 2008
Singaporean and Japanese scientists are capturing the potential of bacteria-powered fuel cells
Controlled-release microcapsules
05 March 2008
Gel-based capsules that can be individually opened with a precisely aimed blast from a laser could be a new way to control reactions or deliver drugs
From oxidation to reduction
10 March 2008
Researchers in Portugal have developed high-valent metal oxides for hydrogenating alkynes and sulfoxides, using inexpensive hydrogen
Diazene takes a side-on stance
11 March 2008
An unusual iron complex may lead to better ways of producing ammonia
Safer stent surfaces
13 March 2008
Understanding structural changes of blood plasma proteins at metal surfaces offers hope for new medical implants
Essential Elements
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