Chemistry World China January-March 2010

January-March 2010

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January-March 2010

News and analysis: China

China’s plans for reducing carbon emissions following the Copenhagen Accord

China’s State intellectual property office (SIPO) is the world’s largest producer of patent invention applications in chemistry

Following a strong recovery in the last quarter of 2009, China’s chemical industry is expected to have an easier year this year

Despite crackdowns, fake salt appears to be spreading across China

China’s rapid growth in both academic and industrial output

Chemistry led the field at the recent national science and technology (S&T) awards

Waste burning is being hotly debated in China

Despite experts’ questions and media exposure Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription claiming to treat swine flu has still been approved for use by China’s health authorities.

At the age of 70, former vice minister of science and technology Hui Yongzheng is facing tough decisions. Hepeng Jia reports.

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News and analysis

02 February 2010

Despite President Obama’s plan to freeze domestic spending, science agencies would get a boost under new budget proposals

11 December 2009

US politicians raise pressure on scientists to ensure research legitimacy after email leak suggesting unethical practices at University of East Anglia

15 January 2010

China called on to ensure researchers’ scientific integrity after UK-based journal is forced to retract dozens of Chinese papers with falsified data

25 January 2010

US could be losing its edge in science and engineering as China ramps up research efforts

21 December 2009

French universities have been given an early Christmas present of extra funding to boost their competitiveness

31 January 2010

Many researchers working with nanomaterials use inadequate protection, if any at all, claims new study

12 January 2010

EU Council asks whether current legislation adequately assesses risks from exposure to multiple chemicals from different sources

09 December 2009

US senator argues it is time ‘to sound the alarm’ over the country’s regulatory system for chemicals, and plans to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act

27 November 2009

New EU regulation will require cosmetics to list nanoparticles on ingredients list; Germany raises concerns

26 January 2010

US Environmental Protection Agency to reject confidentiality claims that prevent names of chemicals identified as potential health risks being made public

New products, January-March 2010

Chemical science

28 January 2010

Bright future for high-capacity Li-ion batteries from titanium dioxide coated carbon nanotubes

22 January 2010

Aptamer-based hydrogel can simply and quickly detect minute amounts of drug

03 February 2010

What causes water to collect on spider webs on dewy mornings? New research probes the structure of spider silk to find out

29 January 2010

Direct-write piezoelectric 'nanogenerators' based on organic nanofibres could power miniature devices with their impressive energy conversion efficiency

10 February 2010

Silver nanoparticles provide a sensitive method to detect melamine in infant formula, say Chinese scientists

11 January 2010

Energy saving bismuth photocatalyst works under visible light

21 December 2009

A small molecule motor that can walk in a straight line has been made UK scientists

13 December 2009

Chemists have severed one of the strongest bonds in chemistry - in dinitrogen - and reacted it with carbon monoxide to make useful organic compounds

10 February 2010

Researchers successfully trap and weigh atoms of an exotic short-lived element, throwing light on the stability of ‘superheavy’ nuclei

15 January 2010

A team of researchers in the Netherlands have devised a trap that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air

22 November 2009

Unusual compound of xenon and hydrogen made under high pressure by researchers in the US

06 January 2010

The way enzyme catalysts bind molecules to speed up their reactions is not as simple as once thought, say chemists from the UK and Spain

20 January 2010

Researchers synthesise compound with direct bond between two silicate moieties for the first time

15 November 2009

US researchers engineer bacteria to photosynthetically convert carbon dioxide to useful biofuel

07 January 2010

The self-assembly of huge molybdenum wheels relies on the spontaneous formation of an temporary internal template

Features

Western companies are now outsourcing highly skilled science work to China. Can the industry’s growing demands be met, asks Sarah Houlton

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is allowing art conservators to rewrite sections of art history, reports Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay

Simon Hadlington previews the novel materials coming soon to a dental surgery near you

Matt Wilkinson reports on InXitu’s award winning portable x-ray diffraction/x-ray fluorescence system

Regulars

Welcome to the first digital edition of Chemistry World China

Derek Lowe takes a tour of the ‘instrument graveyard’

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When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father’s study

10 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy

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