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Chemical Communications

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Top view of the three porphine guest molecules in coordination box

Hot article: Getting in a spin

29 April 2008

Scientists in Japan have shown the intercalation of metal (aza)porphines into an organic-pillared coordination box, forming metal arrays with unusual spin properties.


nanocrystalline nickel phosphide

Hot article: White phosphorus used to synthesize nickel phosphide

29 April 2008

French researchers have synthesised nickel phosphide using Ni (0) complexes and the highly reactive white phosphorus (P4), as a single source of phosphorus.


FESEM and TEM images of the silver nanostructures

Hot article: Ultrasensitive SERS detection

25 April 2008

The surface-enhanced raman scattering signals (SERS) of four analytes, in low concentrations, have been detected using silver nanoparticles developed by scientists in China.


Polymer coated nanotube

Carbon nanotubes wear coats to deliver drugs

24 April 2008

Polymer coated carbon nanotubes could find a new use in drug delivery, claim Korean scientists.


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Hot article: Quenching pyrene-based fluorescent probe

21 April 2008

Scientists in Switzerland have shown that pyrene excimer fluorescence can be effectively quenched by perylene diimide (PDI) upon DNA duplex formation.


Functionalised C60 Hexakis_adduct

Hot article: 'Click' chemistry preparation of functionalized fullerenes

21 April 2008

French and Brazilian researchers have developed fullerene hexakis-adducts as 3D molecules with high potential for biological and materials applications.


2D Kagomé network

Hot article: Guest directs molecular arrangement

21 April 2008

UK chemists control molecular organisation on the nanoscale.


Cancer cells treated with peptide nanostructures

Peptides provide fatal blow for cancer cells

21 April 2008

Peptides that punch holes in cancer cells are 'the first step towards efficient nanochemotherapeutics,' say Canadian chemists.


DNA dispersed in the liquid crystalline phases of phospholipids

Liquid crystals in all of us?

18 April 2008

European researchers spark debate as they claim that cell nuclei may contain liquid crystals.


Sunset

Radical proposal for atmospheric link to asthma

09 April 2008

Nitrate radicals irreversibly damage amino acids and could play a role in respiratory disease, say Australian researchers.


Glutamic acid

Hot article: Biodegradable polymers

08 April 2008

Scientists in France have synthesized a biodegradable polymer derived from glutamic acid.


Solar panels

A bright future for solar cells

08 April 2008

A highly efficient light harvesting molecule could lead to cheaper solar cells, claim international scientists.


3D DOSY-TOCSY: valine

Hot article: New method for mixture analysis

08 April 2008

A new, time-saving method to analyse complex mixtures of compounds has been discovered by French scientists.


Molecular structure

Hot article: Easy copper catalysis

04 April 2008

Japanese chemists report a simple method to add aryl-metal species to alkynoates, using a copper acetate catalyst.


A cyanine dye linked to DNA with an ethynyl linker

The rigid future of DNA labels

02 April 2008

How do you study DNA without affecting it? Chemists have linked fluorescent tags to DNA so that they do not alter the helix's stability.