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Single catalyst for oxidation and reduction of water

15 August 2012 Research

A cobalt-based catalyst designed to produce hydrogen by electrosplitting water can be reversibly switched to produce oxygen.

Flu fighters are wired

6 July 2012 Research

Silicon nanowire detector can spot tiny amounts of the flu virus in exhaled breath in just minutes

Single particles take flight

27 June 2012 Research

X-ray laser irradiation and mass spectrometry combine to unlock the structure and composition of single airborne particles in their native environment

Tuning into a radio solution to money forgers

3 April 2012 News Archive

Banknotes with an organic conducting polymer radiofrequency identification tag provide an extra level of security against counterfeiters

The world's strongest fibres

1 February 2012 News Archive

A polymer fibre that combines carbon nanotubes and reduced graphene oxide is stronger than spider silk and Kevlar

Asteroid ages united by new isotope standard

23 January 2012 News Archive

Hydrous asteroids are as much as 9 million years younger than thought

Growing super long fibres in seaweed jackets

22 November 2011 News Archive

Aligned supramolecular nanofibres over one metre long have been made by encapsulating them in a hydrogel coating

Cofactor control of catalysis enantioselectivity

18 October 2011 News Archive

Catalysts can turn from achiral to chiral using cofactors and can perform asymmetric reactions with high enantiomeric selectivity

Smoothing out zeolite nanosheet synthesis

6 October 2011 News Archive

A new technique overcomes a major problem with the production of zeolite nanosheets

The A-Z of mass spectrometry

27 May 2010 Review

Dictionary of mass spectrometry

Ions in the open air

27 July 2006 Feature

Ionisation techniques that remove the need for sample preparation are taking mass spectrometry into new and exciting research areas, reports Steve Down

Sniffing out garlic in gilded artworks

24 January 2006 News Archive

The presence of garlic in early gilded artworks has been confirmed.

Eurozone researchers see through fake banknotes

23 January 2006 News Archive

Fake euro notes can be detected quickly and accurately with a spectroscopic technique.

Boosting the paradoxical benefits of white wine

22 November 2005 News Archive

White wine enriched in polyphenols has the same protective effect against atherosclerosis as red wines.

Perchlorate levels doubled in organic veg

21 November 2005 News Archive

Organically grown leafy vegetables produced in North America contain double the amount of perchlorate found in conventionally grown crops, report US researchers.

Wax paintings analysed

7 November 2005 News Archive

The care and restoration of wax-based paintings could be easier following the arrival of a new gas chromatography method.

Sensing pollutants with iodinated polymers

10 October 2005 News Archive

Molecularly imprinted polymers containing iodine have been used to trap polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from river water for optical sensing.

21 September 2005: Stressed GM potatoes contain increased levels of toxic metabolites

21 September 2005 News Archive

Genetically modified potatoes can produce greater amounts of toxins after exposure to blights and viruses, say UK researchers.

8 September 2005: Polymerised ionic liquids make stable GC stationary phases

8 September 2005 News Archive

The high-temperature performance of gas chromatography stationary phases made from ionic liquids has been improved by polymerisation, say US researchers.

22 August 2005: Targeted nanoprobes for cancer detection and prognosis

22 August 2005 News Archive

Magnetic nanocrystals have been bound to cancer-targeting antibodies to create a highly sensitive probe for the detection of cancer in vivo.

18 August 2005: Liquid crystals enter an extended blue phase

18 August 2005 News Archive

Liquid crystals with blue phases that exist over a surprisingly wide temperature range will lead to new applications in photonics, say researchers.

10 August 2005: Recreational drugs down the drain

10 August 2005 News Archive

The discovery of cocaine by-products in an Italian river challenges official figures on national cocaine consumption and has prompted similar analysis of other drugs.

27 July 2005: Carbon nanotubes receive support for metallisation

27 July 2005 News Archive

Carbon nanotubes have been fixed to metal surfaces to increase the range of metals that can be coated by electroless deposition.

25 July 2005: Firelies light the way for capillary NMR

25 July 2005 News Archive

A rare American firefly has acted as a test case for the discovery of new natural products from a largely untapped source.

13 July 2005: Chemical technique separates the sheep from the goats

14 July 2005 News Archive

A protein biosensor for discriminating between meat juices from the flesh of different animals has been developed by Swedish scientists.

14 July 2005: Road kill assists pollutant monitoring

14 July 2005 News Archive

An animal-friendly scheme for monitoring the spread of toxic brominated fire retardants in the environment relies on the analysis of mammalian hair rather than post mortem tissue.