Chemistry World March 2010

March 2010

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March 2010

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

02 February 2010

University teaching bears the brunt of cuts to higher education funding while science is afforded a degree of protection, according to latest Hefce figures

16 February 2010

European Commission ploughs millions into scheme to encourage the chemical sector to make use of bio-based approaches such as industrial biotechnology

05 February 2010

Dozens of countries meet deadline to submit emission reduction targets in line with the Copenhagen Accord signed during UN climate summit

02 February 2010

New report shows research in Russia, once considered a scientific powerhouse, is now lagging behind

08 February 2010

Chemists will be behind the scenes at the Vancouver Winter Olympics this month, working hard to catch athletes boosting their performance by illicit means

15 February 2010

Chemist Alain Fuchs talks of his hopes and fears in his new role as president of CNRS, France's enormous research organisation

21 January 2010

US Food and Drug Administration revises previous stance on bisphenol A, admitting it does have concerns over the safety of the controversial chemical

26 January 2010

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

28 January 2010

The US should change how helium is sold from its federal stockpile to remove influence over world markets and avert national shortages

31 January 2010

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

Big cuts hit big pharma R&D

20 January 2010

Pharma's delaying tactics for generic drug market entry come under closer scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic

26 January 2010

Brazil's Braskem merges with its rival Quattor Petroquimica to become the Americas' largest resin producer

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Chemical science

10 February 2010

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

15 February 2010

Using repulsive van der Waals forces could enable US scientists to halve the size of lithium-ion batteries

04 February 2010

The freezing point of supercooled water varies depending on whether it is sitting on a positively or negatively charged surface

29 January 2010

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

31 January 2010

Chemists show how a long-neglected but potentially versatile functional group can be incorporated into a range of polymer systems

28 January 2010

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

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

07 February 2010

Researchers use ring-closing metathesis to tie off loose ends of an open-knot complex to form a molecular trefoil knot

24 January 2010

Concentric double pi-structure doesn't exist in organic compounds

27 January 2010

US chemists discover a tungsten complex that can break a strong carbon-carbon bond in an aromatic ring

15 February 2010

Non-targeted analytical approach uncovers chemical complexity of 40-year-old meteorite, and reveals the presence of millions of organic compounds

03 February 2010

UK researchers find a simple new way of attaching molecules to proteins that can later be reversed

20 January 2010

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

10 February 2010

Hopping hydrogens set the stage for a new generation of organic molecular ferroelectrics

27 January 2010

UK chemists find a quick, inexpensive route to make a key sulfide reagent for asymmetric organic syntheses with the help of limonene

29 January 2010

An analogue of benzene made from Si atoms reveals a new kind of aromaticity

22 January 2010

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

14 February 2010

Arrays of silicon wires can harvest light for solar cells much more efficiently than conventional silicon wafers, US researchers show

04 February 2010

First step towards microfluidic system for complete quality analysis of semen

08 February 2010

Nicotine residues on indoor surfaces can react with ambient gases to generate cancer-causing compounds, researchers in the US have found

17 February 2010

Japanese scientists have engineered three dimensional replacement tendon tissue using fibrin gel

16 February 2010

Liquid aspirin could be possible using pharmaceutically active ionic liquids claim researchers in Northern Ireland

04 February 2010