RSC - Advancing the Chemical Sciences


Chemistry World

 

August 2003


No 8

Schematic representation

Encapsulating chemistry

Self-assembling molecular capsules can serve as containers, separation tools and even as reaction vessels and catalysts.


Enterprise and electrolysis...

William Nicholson, born 250 years ago this year, founded a new journal and discovered electrolysis. Colin Russell elaborates.


Electrochemical

Disease detectives

A disposable polymer microchip promises to make medical diagnostics easier and more convenient.


Ball games

Orderly arrays of microscopic balls can make light behave in unusual - and often useful - ways, Philip Ball reports.