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Chemistry World

 

Features March 2005


High stakes in the instrument market

Vikki Allen looks at the ways both global and small analytical instrument companies get a new product to the market


Managing the multi-million megawatts

Energy consumption is a key challenge for BASF. The company is working to manage its own energy use and to develop energy saving products, reports Bea Perks


Maximising the potential

David Haddleton, founder of Warwick Effect Polymers, has won the 2004 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year award. Karen Harries-Rees reports


Promising a greener future

Ionic liquids have long been hailed as the future of green chemistry but can they live up to their promise? Andrew West investigates


Two men, two centuries, four metals

Bill Griffith introduces us to the colourful characters behind the discovery of four rare metals 200 years ago