Chemistry World December 2011

December 2011

Vol 8, No 12

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December 2011

News and analysis

01 November 2011

Intellectual property sharing database will give researchers new leads in the fight against TB and malaria

21 October 2011

The chemical industry says it's too broad; the environmental lobby says it's too narrow

02 November 2011

Obama calls on FDA and Justice Department to clamp down on pharmaceutical industry after drug shortages triple

31 October 2011

Four of the base SI units, including the kilogram and mole, are set to be redefined

26 October 2011

Investment in R&D by top European firms grew by 6 per cent last year, but competitors are growing faster

07 November 2011

New strategy will see the country boost its spending on science to 2.5 per cent of GDP

24 October 2011

US Chemical Safety Board 'greatly concerned' by frequency of academic lab accidents, recommends nationwide reporting system

08 November 2011

Frustration persists in the UK chemistry community over council decisions on the funding future for the field

24 October 2011

The UK's first large scale carbon capture and storage scheme has been binned with the government blaming technical problems

14 October 2011

Brazil plans to boost scientific knowhow by sending 75,000 students abroad to study

10 November 2011

Scientists take full advantage of asteroid flying uncommonly close to the Earth to gather information on its structure

18 October 2011

The high surface activity needed for shale gas extraction is likely to put off Europeans, says the boss of Shell Chemical

21 October 2011

US drug maker divides the firm into two parts as part of a rebalancing strategy

01 November 2011

US energy department teams up with oil majors to investigate the viability of extracting methane from gas hydrates

03 November 2011

A German start up has developed a disposable infusion pump that uses osmosis instead of electrical power

19 October 2011

Dow pledges to improve security after a researcher stole trade secrets and passed them to a Chinese university

Industry news, December 2011

New products, December 2011

Short items

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Research

09 November 2011

Laser pulses can be used to 'switch off' aromaticity in benzene molecules

31 October 2011

Urine could be processed into power and fertiliser by bacterial biofilms

28 October 2011

A capsule that squirts cancer drug at its target in a new drug delivery strategy

09 November 2011

Japanese researchers have created a gel that harnesses free radicals to heal without any outside help

13 October 2011

Researchers have taken a series of snapshots to watch how electrons rearrange during a photochemical reaction

20 October 2011

Batteries could now be integrated into cotton or polyester to power smart textiles

31 October 2011

Researchers find a way to put OLEDs on flexible plastic while retaining efficiency

17 October 2011

Protein binding is not ruled by increases in entropy when ligands displace water, contrary to long-held 'hydrophobic effect' theory

09 November 2011

A single molecule nanocar powered by electrical impulses has been put together by Dutch scientists

24 October 2011

Isotope ratios and fatty acids residues in ancient pottery indicate that Europeans carried on fishing after farming began

27 October 2011

Scientists have added a graphene layer to a polyethylene actuator to convert IR into energy to move the actuator

01 November 2011

Bioinspired fibres could harvest water from fog and mist in parched areas

20 October 2011

A device to make droplets to cut off blood supply to tumours

10 November 2011

Replicating heart tissue on a chip could lead to a powerful new platform for drug tests

04 November 2011

Prodrug uses a boronate to spot cancer cells' oxidative environment and then gases them with nitrogen mustard

03 November 2011

Single chirality crystals are generated through a temperature gradient in boiling solutions

06 November 2011

Computer program takes the guesswork out of making MOFs and produces world's best methane-holding structure

11 November 2011

Water reveals invisible photonic ink on photonic paper as an anti-counterfeit measure

10 November 2011

A children's toy undergoes heating to generate 3D shapes from 2D patterns

30 September 2011

Jeremy Smith tells Ruth Doherty why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus colour