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Updating the textbook on intermolecular interactions

2 May 2013 Research

Van der Waals radii established for 93 elements

Reconstructing how the Romans made glass

17 April 2013 Research

Antimony isotope analysis helps reveal glass heritage

Flow electrodes may enable large-scale sea water desalination

27 March 2013 Research

Capacitive deionisation could turn the oceans into a source of drinkable fresh water

Removing toxic chemicals with POPs

13 March 2013 Research

Porous organic polymers can be tailored to filter the air for toxic compounds, and don’t degrade in moist or corrosive environments

Recognising coeliac disease

28 February 2013 Research

An electrochemical immunosensor is a step towards point-of-care disease diagnosis

Electricity at your fingertips

6 February 2013 Research

Conducting polymers that could harvest energy from human body heat

Technique to measure chemotherapy effectiveness

18 December 2012 Research

Cell stiffness and adhesion indicate anticancer drug’s performance

Making criminals leave chemical fingerprints

13 December 2012 Research

Lanthanide markers added to ammunition could aid forensic investigations

Ink containing living cells to print tissue

7 November 2012 Research

New bio-ink to print living cells for tissue engineering

Seeing cells under stress

17 September 2012 Research

Combining analytical techniques with mechanical stretching to visualise cells under mechanical stress for disease studies

Skeleton and skin strategy improves supercapacitor

28 August 2012 Research

An ultrathin supercapacitor for portable electronic devices with high power and energy densities

Delivering insulin in a skin cream

23 July 2012 Research

Injections and tablets could one day be a thing of the past

Extracting nuclear energy from seawater

28 June 2012 Research

The ligand that forms a complex with a uranyl ion to enable uranium to be extracted from seawater

Nanocrystal probes mimic viruses to gain entry into cells

20 April 2012 Research

Polymers deliver nanocrystal probes for non-invasive imaging directly into cells within an hour

Butter substitute reduces blood pressure and cholesterol

8 March 2012 News Archive

Scientists are tackling cardiovascular disease with milk peptides and plant sterols in a spread

A new generation of tuberculosis drugs

9 February 2012 News Archive

Antibacterial drugs that can discriminate between human and bacterial enzymes to target TB

Turning bacteria's shield into a weapon against it

9 December 2011 News Archive

Meningitis-causing bacteria produce a sugar layer that could be used against them in a vaccine

Mimicking Mother Nature's solar panels

20 October 2011 News Archive

Black butterfly wings provide inspiration for new solar collection devices

Diagnosing tumours in the nasopharynx without surgery

4 August 2011 News Archive

Early disease diagnosis and favourable prognosis go hand-in-hand with a new tumour detection technique

Across the barrier for tumour imaging

3 June 2011 News Archive

A probe for pinpointing the location of a tumour and image-guided tumour removal

A single scale tells more than a whole wing

29 March 2011 News Archive

Photonic crystal structures based on butterfly wing scales

Measuring cells' oxygen levels with PEBBLEs

8 March 2011 News Archive

Dye probes give a colour readout of oxygen distribution in cells

Early lung cancer diagnosis

21 January 2011 News Archive

Scientists have discovered the levels of a specific protein increase in the presence of lung cancer but no other cancer type

Microfluidic pinball

7 January 2011 News Archive

A device set up like a pinball machine guides oil droplets through polymers to build up polymer layers

Frozen assets in biobanks

20 December 2010 News Archive

A method for DNA and RNA extraction could aid cancer research

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