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A magazine highlighting the latest applications and technological aspects of research across the chemical sciences.
Issue 5
May, 2007, Issue 5
Instant Insight
Instant insight: Nanocrystals as sensors
24 April 2007
Rebecca Somers, Moungi Bawendi and Daniel Nocera of MIT, US, explain how to solve a paradox: making quantum dots both bright and sensitive
Interview
Interview: In a spin
20 April 2007
Daniella Goldfarb talks to Colin Batchelor about her dreams for electron spin resonance
Application Highlights
Gentlemen, plug in your engines
05 April 2007
The dream of environmentally friendly electric cars is a step closer to reality thanks to work by scientists in the UK and China.
Super solar cells
26 April 2007
Supramolecular dyes could boost efficiency in solar cells, say scientists from the UK.
A portable way to measure smoke
16 April 2007
Researchers in the US have developed portable equipment to measure tobacco smoke compounds in public areas.
Nanodiamonds for HPLC
12 April 2007
Diamonds show potential as column packing for high-performance liquid chromatography.
Sweet toothed sensors
03 April 2007
Medical researchers in the USA have made a sensor device that can potentially be used to measure sugar levels in the blood.
Shrinking screening for drugs
10 April 2007
Scientists in the US have found a way to screen for potential drugs using just minuscule amounts of chemical reagents.
Light layers
23 April 2007
A simple process for preparing light-emitting layers of silica with wide colour variation has been developed by Italian scientists.
Essential Elements
Another successful ACS meeting
The RSC enjoyed a busy and exciting ACS spring meeting in Chicago.
Scientists with an interest in specific topics at the chemistry-biology interface can easily find relevant research articles from across RSC journals, thanks to Biology in Focus.
The highly successful Biomolecular Sciences Book Series now includes seven titles that provide an authoritative insight to research at the chemistry-biology interface.
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