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Instant insights
Whirlwind tours of exciting research areas of chemical technology.

Instant Insight: Making sense of DNAzymes
01 May 2008
Itamar Willner and colleagues from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, discuss the applications of DNA-based enzymes.

Instant insight: Detection on the nanoscale
23 April 2008
Nicholas Pieczonka and Ricardo Aroca of the University of Windsor in Canada discuss single molecule analysis using surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Instant insight: Organic field-effect transistors
18 March 2008
Marta Mas-Torrent and Concepció Rovira look at how small molecules can be used as processable semiconductors

Instant insight: Sensing NO in single cells
21 February 2008
Xiaoying Ye, Stanislav Rubakhin and Jonathan Sweedler describe fluorescent separation and electrochemical methods for detecting a crucial, but tiny, biomolecule

Instant insight: Watching the burn
23 January 2008
Craig Taatjes of Sandia National Labs, Livermore, US, and colleagues look inside the mysterious chemistry of combustion

Instant insight: Ionic liquids - instantly on site
17 December 2007
Natalia Plechkova and Kenneth Seddon examine how ionic liquids are being applied in the real world.

Instant insight: Holographic data storage
16 November 2007
Avtar Matharu and colleagues from the University of York, UK, explain how, when it comes to data, size matters

Instant insight: Organic nanofiltration
23 October 2007
Ivo Vankelecom of the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, looks at the potential for solvent-resistant filtration - from the lab to the plant.

Instant insight: Science and art in harmony
24 September 2007
Marc Aucouturier and Evelyne Darque-Ceretti illustrate the benefit of a multidisciplinary approach to preserving our cultural heritage.

Instant insight: The shape of things to come
20 August 2007
Paul Midgley, Edmund Ward, Ana Hungria and John Meurig Thomas discuss using nanotomography to take a 3D glimpse at the nanoworld.
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