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Whirlwind tours of exciting research areas of chemical technology.
Instant insight: Searching for better batteries
03 August 2010
Hun-Joon Sohn discusses how research is attempting to meet the ever increasing demands for higher power batteries
Instant insight: Catalysis for coal conversion
03 August 2010
Yvonne Traa discusses how converting coal to energy and fuel can be made more environmentally friendly
Instant insight: Self-healing at the nanoscale
06 October 2009
Vincenzo Amendola and Moreno Meneghetti take inspiration from nature to design materials that can repair themselves
Instant insight: A calculated risk
03 September 2009
How safe are nanoparticles? Amanda Barnard reveals how computation can help to identify and prevent nanohazards
Instant insight: Zooming in on sensors
14 August 2009
Seunghun Hong, at Seoul National University, Korea, and colleagues discuss ways to integrate nanowires and nanotubes on chips
Instant insight: Holography speaks volumes
29 July 2009
Søren Hvilsted and colleagues explain how holograms could be the key to storing increasing amounts of information
Instant insight: Detecting danger
15 June 2009
Can science end the threat of terrorism? Michael Knapp and Meaghan Germain explain chemistry's key role
Instant insight: Rewriting the genetic code
01 June 2009
Researchers' dreams of automated gene synthesis could soon become a reality, predict Jingdong Tian and colleagues
Instant insight: Molecular shuttle power
12 May 2009
Smart dust biosensors may be smaller than a grain of sand but they have big potential, say Henry Hess and colleagues
Instant insight: Nothing but surface
17 April 2009
Alexander Czaja and colleagues discuss the possible applications of metal-organic frameworks for the chemical industry
Instant insight: Probing radioactive research
14 April 2009
Microfluidic reactors could revolutionise radiopharmaceutical synthesis, according to Siemens' Arkadij Elizarov
Instant insight: Bone repair breakthrough
27 February 2009
Thanks to nanotechnology, today's bone implants are so much more than your grandparent's hip replacement, say Thomas Webster and colleagues at Brown University, US
Instant insight: Size matters
20 February 2009
Andrew Houlton and colleagues at Newcastle University explain how DNA can direct electronic materials to grow on the nanoscale
Instant insight: Scratching at the surface of biosensors
08 January 2009
Justin Gooding, Till Böcking and Kris Kilian of the University of New South Wales discuss how surface chemistry lets porous silicon biosensors fulfil their promise
Instant insight: Digging deep with microtools
01 December 2008
Jaime Castillo, Maria Dimaki and Winnie E. Svendsen explain how micro and nano manipulation techniques are helping researchers understand biological systems
Instant insight: Photochemistry goes micro
11 November 2008
Michael Oelgemöller and Emma Coyle discuss how microreactors may change synthetic organic photochemistry
Instant insight: Protein takes charge
23 October 2008
Yongdong Jin, at the University of Washington, Seattle, US, and colleagues explain why bacteriorhodopsin is a leading candidate for biomolecular electronics
Instant insight: Dendrimers in the spotlight
16 October 2008
Seok-Ho Hwang, Charles Moorefield and George Newkome from the University of Akron, US, examine the use of dendrimers in organic light-emitting diodes
Instant insight: Colloids deliver the goods
08 September 2008
Unilever's Krassimir Velikov and Eddie Pelan reveal the design behind innovative, nutritious and tasty foods
Instant insight: The wonder of gold
07 August 2008
Graham J. Hutchings, Mathias Brust and Hubert Schmidbaur introduce the newly discovered allure of gold
Instant insight: Fuel cells get cooler
27 June 2008
Solid oxide fuel cells can be used at lower temperatures thanks to advances in materials and engineering
Instant Insight: Solar energy turns organic
18 June 2008
Hiroshi Imahori and Tomokazu Umeyama explain why carbon nanotubes are promising candidates for organic solar cells.
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
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