October 2006

Hot Article: Keeping guest molecules in order
06 October 2006
Guest molecules can be ordered by the self-assembly of a symmetrical cage into a 2-D network structure.

Hot Article: Advances in organic semiconductors
11 October 2006
Chinese scientists have developed a powerful protocol for making new functional units of organic semiconductors.

Hot Article: Cascade reactions for DNA detection
11 October 2006
A new visual method of detecting DNA using a reagent that produces an optical response has been developed by scientists in Germany.

Hot Article: Mild method for 'green' plastics
12 October 2006
Scientists discover a new low temperature route to biodegradable and biocompatible polymers.

Hot Article: Stabilising gold nanoparticles
13 October 2006
Chemists in France have made heteroditopic ligands and used them to stabilize gold nanoparticles.

Hot Article: Building box complexes
13 October 2006
Scientists in the US have used small molecular building blocks to construct tetrametallic rectangular box complexes.

Hot Article: Click on to HPLC
17 October 2006
The power of 'click chemistry' has been extended to the world of separation analysis by a team of scientists in China.

Hot Article: New dye for cancer treatment
24 October 2006
A photosensitising dye for use in a targeted and non-invasive form of cancer therapy has been developed by scientists in Turkey.

Hot Article: The longest single molecule wire
30 October 2006
A single molecule wire, claimed by scientists to be the longest to date, has electronic properties that can be chemically modified.

