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Main group renaissance
31 May 2013 
Feature
The s- and p-block elements are back in vogue. James Mitchell Crow finds out why
Reality microscopy
30 May 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)
Pratibha Gai talks to James Mitchell Crow about her life’s work, watching the secret life of atoms
Survival in the freezer
2 May 2013 Feature
How do animals survive in the extreme cold? James Mitchell Crow investigates
Higher apprenticeships offer degrees of difference
17 April 2013 Educated Chemist
Can an apprenticeship offer a genuine alternative to a university degree? James Mitchell Crowe investigates
Tapping proton power for enantioselective synthesis
13 February 2013 Research
A simple yet selective organocatalyst provides an efficient new way to generate many useful organic molecules
CSIRO: a translation agency
25 January 2013 The Insider
James Mitchell Crow meets the scientists making a difference at Australia’s national science organisation
Building better chemistry
20 December 2012 Feature
Do lab buildings affect the work of the scientists inside them? James Mitchell Crow surveys some grand designs
Closing the loop
29 November 2012 Feature
Why would you want to burn fuel to produce pure carbon dioxide? James Mitchell Crow has the answer
'Molecular trapdoor' opens only for CO2
20 November 2012 Research
Zeolite's cation bouncers on the doors can keep out undesirables like methane while letting in carbon dioxide - handy for carbon capture
Nitrogen does diamond
31 October 2012 Research
Putting nitrogen gas under pressure generates a cage-like material with explosive potential properties
Leather looks to greener tanning
24 September 2012 Feature
James Mitchell Crow examines the latest environmentally friendly chemical advances in the leather tanning industry
Tastefully done
12 September 2012 Jobs Profile (Personal)
Russell Keast’s early years as a chef gave him an appetite for science that took him out of the kitchen and into the lab, he tells James Mitchell Crow
MOF smashes gas storage ceiling
28 August 2012 Research
Recording-breaking metal organic frameworks adds weight to idea that they can mop up much more gas than previously thought
Watching single nanoparticles work
21 August 2012 Research
A new Raman technique has let chemists watch reactions taking place in real time
Resourcing the resource boom
18 July 2012 Jobs Profile (Company)
Kelly Scientific Resources has its work cut out supplying scientists for Australia’s expanding mining and environmental science sectors, learns James Mitchell Crow
Stepping toward ideality
6 July 2012 Feature
James Mitchell Crow wonders what would make the perfect organic synthesis
Polymer gel squeezes and strains like an intestine
16 May 2012 News Archive
The oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction powers a tubular gel that expands and contracts in waves
Going with the flow
31 March 2012 Feature
When it comes to scaling up organic synthesis, it pays to think small
plays host to quick xylene separation
19 March 2012 News Archive
Isomers of xylene simply separated in a process that could cut the energy costs of a wide range of chemical goods
Keeping the tap on
27 January 2012 Feature
James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth
Bright sparks
22 December 2011 Feature
From the Olympics to New Year's Eve events, fireworks are synonymous with celebration. James Mitchell Crow looks into some pyrotechnic research worth celebrating in itself
Artificial enzymes close in on nature
27 November 2011 News Archive
A de novo designed zinc-binding protein is the closest synthetic mimic yet of the carbonic anhydrase enzyme
Nanotubes with a split personality show solar promise
20 October 2011 News Archive
Self-assembled semiconducting nanostructures with two distinct electronic domains form the first nanowire heterojunctions
Twist in the tale of improving gene therapy
14 October 2011 News Archive
Unravelling the physical properties of DNA molecules can help to up the efficiency of gene delivery into living cells
Breathing life into medical devices
29 September 2011 News Archive
Tiny piezoelectric polymer belts produce electricity from respiration
Zeolite catalysts under the fluorescence microscope
18 September 2011 News Archive
A fluorescence imaging technique borrowed from the life sciences illuminates catalyst particle performance
Polymer side-chains on the slide
15 September 2011 News Archive
Rotaxane research inspires polymer materials with dynamic, stimuli-responsive structures
Bringing cheap high-throughput catalyst screens to the masses
9 September 2011 News Archive
Rapid reaction screening approach automates the accidental discovery of new catalytic reactions
Diamonds are for everything
30 August 2011 Feature
No longer valued simply for its glamour and durability, diamond is turning its hand to applications in solar power, laser design and bionic eyes. James Mitchell Crow reports
Bacteria create missing 'atmospheric brooms' that sweep the sky clean
19 August 2011 News Archive
The puzzle of where key chemical species that remove pollutants from the atmosphere come from may have been solved
MOFs ready to gulp down radioactive iodine gas
4 August 2011 News Archive
A metal-organic framework has been created that could trap radioactive isotopes of iodine produced by nuclear power plants
Sequencing chip decodes DNA proton by proton
21 July 2011 News Archive
pH-sensing silicon chips could make the $1000 genome a reality in just two years
Redesigning nature's catalysts
30 June 2011 Feature
Harnessing the power of enzymes to perform reactions outside their normal abilities is adding powerful tools to the synthetic chemist's armoury. James Mitchell Crow investigates
Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath
5 June 2011 News Archive
A wash in hot water is all it takes to clean up gold nanoparticles and improve their catalytic activity
Polymer caterpillar crawls in humid weather
26 May 2011 News Archive
A polymer sandwich that responds to changes in humidity can 'crawl' carrying 120 times its own weight
Hatching a plan to kill worm pests
23 May 2011 News Archive
Chemists have synthesised a complex molecule that hatches the eggs of a nematode pest before it destroys crops
Managing change: Chemistry down under
28 April 2011 Careers
Australia has a flourishing academic sector, and the weather's better than in the UK. What's not to love? asks recent émigré
When is a catalyst not a catalyst?
28 April 2011 Feature
This riddle has come to vex certain corners of the catalysis community. But once solved, it could potentially point to new kinds of chemistry, as James Mitchell Crow discovers
Waste not, want not
29 March 2011 Feature
Modern devices waste a lot of energy as heat, noise and vibration. James Mitchell Crow investigates a new breed of energy scavenging materials that could recapture some of it
Profile: Diversity, variety and collaboration
24 February 2011 Jobs Profile (Personal)
Typecasting has never been a problem for Sally Gras, whose interests have ranged from fluid mechanics and protein misfolding to cheese making, discovers James Mitchell Crow
Picture perfect pentacene
5 January 2011 Feature
Advances in microscopy are letting us see not just atoms but the chemical bonds in between them. James Mitchell Crow takes a closer look
Drug delivery: from needles to nanorods?
17 December 2010 News Archive
Hot gold nanorods could help doctors to deliver drugs and vaccines through the skin
DNA readers ratchet closer
29 November 2010 News Archive
Nanopore DNA sequencers are on the verge of becoming a reality, as controlling DNA strand movement through the pore is finally cracked
Comment
1 October 2009 Comments
French physical chemist Hervé This is one of the founding fathers of molecular gastronomy. He takes James Mitchell Crow on a tour of the discipline - and dispels a few myths
STFC cuts funds to key facilities
26 June 2009 News Archive
ISIS cut to just 120 days of operation per year as budget cuts bite
Sustainable research creeps closer
5 May 2009 News Archive
New regulations mean labs will have to become greener - but the benefits could be financial as well as environmental
Reinvesting in the future
30 March 2009 Feature
Northern Ireland-based Almac is ploughing the profits from its pharmaceutical support divisions into a range of new research ventures. James Mitchell Crow visits the company
Editorial
23 February 2009 Editorial
As the recession bites deeper, what could be in store for academe?
Education
7 January 2009 News Archive
EPSRC reinstates cap on first grants to spread funds more widely - but adds two year time limit
Hexion buys its way out of Huntsman merger
17 December 2008 News Archive
Chemistry World's pick of last year's research papers
Cutting edge chemistry in 2008
17 December 2008 News Archive
Chemistry World's pick of last year's research papers
Just add air for cleaner carbon bonding
2 December 2008 News Archive
Reagent-free carbon-carbon bond forming reaction found
BASF closes 80 plants as demand slumps
20 November 2008 News Archive
Temporary shutdowns and production cuts represent 25 per cent of company's total capacity
BP quits carbon capture competition
10 November 2008 News Archive
Just three consortia will now compete for UK government funding to build a CCS demonstration plant
Biodiesel from forest fungus
7 November 2008 News Archive
Patagonian fungus that converts cellulose to biodiesel could challenge theories on fossil fuel origins
Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas
6 November 2008 News Archive
Fuel-forming reactions coupled to boost their efficiency
Caterpillars fight off ants with surfactant spit
5 November 2008 News Archive
Soapy saliva is bugs' first line of defence
Interview: Pierre Brondeau
29 October 2008 News Archive
Rohm and Haas's CEO-in-waiting discusses the company's imminent takeover by Dow
Viagra variants could beat muscle fatigue
27 October 2008 News Archive
Muscular dystrophy patients' tiredness after exercise could be treated with erectile dysfunction pills.
UK chemists warn of funding crisis
20 October 2008 News Archive
Sharp drop in grant numbers hits young scientists and blue skies research
Clever catalysts promise commercial advantage
8 October 2008 News Archive
Chemical industry showcases cheaper, smarter catalysts for pharma at CPhI trade show
AkzoNobel to cut 3500 jobs
29 September 2008 News Archive
ICI's new owner aims to save a further 100 million euros by cutting costs
Ranbaxy hit by US drug ban
18 September 2008 News Archive
FDA issues warning letters to India's largest drugmaker
BASF to buy Ciba
15 September 2008 News Archive
German giant snaps up Swiss specialty chemicals firm in a £3 billion deal
Two catalysts better than one
4 September 2008 News Archive
Combining transition metals with organocatalyst to make elusive molecules
Drug discovery on a chip
1 September 2008 News Archive
Affinity testing on the tiniest scale identifies a potential drug for hepatitis C
Solvent from the sky
27 August 2008 Feature
Nature's favourite solvent can also give great results in the lab, as James Mitchell Crow finds out
Photonic crystal drug detective
26 August 2008 News Archive
High-throughput sensor quickly spots molecules that disrupt protein-DNA interactions
Grasslands emit greenhouse gas
20 August 2008 News Archive
Plants produce significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - depending on where they are growing
High hopes for new UK neutron source
1 August 2008 News Archive
ISIS facility launches £145 million second target station
Cooler fuel cells
31 July 2008 News Archive
Layered electrolyte keeps solid oxide fuel cells working near room temperature
New drug test misses Olympic deadline
18 July 2008 News Archive
'Frustrating' delays for promising biomarker-based assay
Pharma goes green to cut costs
9 July 2008 News Archive
Tight budgets see pharmaceutical firms focusing on green chemistry
Mercury link to dolphin deaths
30 June 2008 News Archive
Heavy metal poisoning could be causing dolphin beachings
New hope for anticancer agent
11 June 2008 News Archive
Scientists have revealed how leucascandrolide A targets tumours - and found a better way to make it
GSK job cuts hit chemists
11 June 2008 News Archive
GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug research and development operations
A drug for longer lashes?
10 June 2008 News Archive
A new 'cosmeceutical' to boost eyelash growth - from the maker of Botox - could take a bite out of the mascara market
Boosting the flow in pharma's pipelines
28 May 2008 News Archive
Flow chemistry is poised to become an important tool for new drug development
Carbon Trust cuts are 'small beer'
23 May 2008 News Archive
Government-funded body is not doing enough to cut the carbon footprint of UK businesses, say MPs
Overlooked pepper compound spices up red wine
13 May 2008 News Archive
Peppery flavour compound discovered in Australian Shiraz wines is also a key aroma molecule in peppercorns
Building peptides from the wrong end
6 May 2008 News Archive
Solution to synthesis problem nets commercialisation cash
Drug costs cut on World Malaria Day
25 April 2008 News Archive
Novartis has reduced the price of its antimalarial drug Coartem, potentially boosting supplies to developing countries
FDA takes tough line on biologic drug
24 April 2008 News Archive
Genzyme's Myozyme knocked back after scale-up
Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium
24 April 2008 News Archive
World's biggest supplier to re-use all its waste, thanks to humble wire mesh rings
Guessing nature's silica secrets
15 April 2008 News Archive
Chemists have mimicked two key catalysts used by sponges and diatoms to make silica
More to catalysis than meets the eye
4 April 2008 News Archive
Changes below the surface of a catalyst can completely change the course of a reaction, chemists have found
Industrial-scale dendrimer production cracked
27 March 2008 News Archive
New synthetic route that delivers dendrimers in kilogram quantities could open a new branch of drug delivery and diagnostics
Surfactants help reactions work in water
20 March 2008 News Archive
PTS is an effective new ingredient in the quest to run catalytic organic reactions in water
Small firms benefit from Darling's first budget
12 March 2008 News Archive
UK Chancellor announces money for SMEs and school science but abolishes biofuel subsidy
Chloride ions in a bind
28 February 2008 News Archive
Donut-shaped molecule takes a surprisingly tight grip on chloride
The house that BASF built
27 February 2008 Feature
Chemistry is the secret ingredient behind an energy-efficient house that has been built in Nottingham, UK
The concrete conundrum
27 February 2008 Feature
Concrete is the single most widely used material in the world - and it has a carbon footprint to match.
Q and A: Do antidepressants work?
26 February 2008 News Archive
Study questions whether drugs such as Prozac are any better than placebos
Rhodium fast tracks route to lactones
22 February 2008 News Archive
Canadian scientists have pioneered an efficient rhodium-catalysed way to make lactones
Industry reports a year of mixed fortune
15 February 2008 News Archive
Solid growth for chemicals sector contrasts with pharmaceutical woes
Calming heat-stressed crops
30 January 2008 News Archive
A spray to protect crop yields in drought- and heat-stressed plants may be available in two years
First sales for 'world's cheapest solar cells'
28 January 2008 News Archive
They're flexible, they're affordable, and they could usher in a solar power revolution
2008 Wolf prize winners revealed
23 January 2008 News Archive
Pioneers of single molecule spectroscopy jointly recognised by award
Amber contains hint of Paris's tropical past
8 January 2008 News Archive
A new natural product isolated from amber suggests Paris may once have been covered by tropical forest
Cutting-edge chemistry in 2007
18 December 2007 News Archive
Chemistry World reviews the important trends, and biggest breakthroughs, of the year's science papers
Nanotech meets big business
4 December 2007 News Archive
UK government seeks to marry up local innovators with international business partners
Kitchen Science
29 November 2007 Review
How to fossilise your hamster: and other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist
Plants really do make methane
29 November 2007 News Archive
Chinese chemists confirm contentious findings that plants emit potent greenhouse gas
A flare for gene silencing
27 November 2007 News Archive
Gold nanoparticles release fluorescent 'flares' as they silence genes
Cancer drugs for the next decade unveiled
21 November 2007 News Archive
Novartis Oncology president David Epstein has announced that the company hopes to bring four new cancer drugs to market by 2011
First Mg(I) complex cracked
8 November 2007 News Archive
Scientists have created the first stable magnesium(I) compounds - a metal ruled, to date, by the +2 oxidation state
Shortest metal bond
7 November 2007 News Archive
Chemists in the US have made a quintuply-bonded dichromium complex with the shortest metal-metal bond ever isolated
Firms unprepared as first Reach deadline looms
31 October 2007 News Archive
Companies are facing a costly 'quantum leap' in the race to implement new European chemicals legislation
A better catalyst for fuel cells?
30 October 2007 News Archive
Mixed metal nanoparticles could boost fuel cell catalyst activity sixfold
Drip line slips away
24 October 2007 News Archive
How many neutrons will an atom's nucleus hold? More than we thought, say nuclear scientists
Flow reactors enter the rapids
12 October 2007 News Archive
Continuous chemistry showcased at UK symposium
Akzo reveals ICI plans
8 October 2007 News Archive
Shareholders mollified by extra dividends and share buyback
MRI sensitivity boosted by 10000 times
8 October 2007 News Archive
Doctors could see real-time images of the effects of their treatments in unprecedented detail
Interview: Fuel cells a hot topic
2 October 2007 News Archive
Stephen Paddison talks to James Mitchell Crow about fuel cell science, and his search for the ideal electrolyte
Monster machine spring-cleans soil
1 October 2007 News Archive
How to scrub up a century-old chemical works
Herbal medicine's secret revealed
28 September 2007 News Archive
Ginger could be the spice of life for millions of infants in the developing world battling diarrhoea
Interview: Energy research lights up
26 September 2007 News Archive
Daniel Nocera tells James Mitchell Crow about harnessing solar energy to make fuel from water
Molecules made with antimatter
13 September 2007 News Archive
Molecules combining electrons and positrons have been made for the first time
Beautiful blooms from nano-weeds
5 September 2007 News Archive
Chemists cultivate bouquets of nanoflowers to order, from dandelion-like precursors
Vitamin C's anti-cancer effects may be compromised by fat
4 September 2007 News Archive
New study shows vitamin could raise - not lower - the level of stomach carcinogens
Toxins' synthesis secret cracked
30 August 2007 News Archive
Pure water solves a 22 year old mystery surrounding the infamous 'ladder' toxins produced by 'red tide' algal blooms
Iupac touts chemistry ethics code
28 August 2007 News Archive
The 41st Iupac World Chemistry Congress Turin
Can chemistry save our libraries?
28 August 2007 News Archive
Three out of every four books in Europe's libraries are printed on acidic paper
Tantalum breaks nitrogen triple bond
23 August 2007 News Archive
Chemists in France have found a new way to tear apart dinitrogen with a single atom
North Americans unite to control chemicals
22 August 2007 News Archive
The US, Canada and Mexico have agreed to coordinate their efforts to regulate chemicals
Why use lead in paint?
21 August 2007 News Archive
Following the recall of millions of 'toxic toys', Chemistry World finds out why lead is added to paint, and why it's so toxic
From genes to kilos
15 August 2007 News Archive
Unique open-access biotech test facility aims to help scale-up bright ideas
Can chemistry save our libraries?
10 August 2007 News Archive
Three quarters of all books aren't expected to survive the century
Cell transplant hope for diabetes sufferers
30 July 2007 News Archive
Insulin-producing cells carried in protective magnetocapsules are tracked by MRI
At the top of the cascade
26 July 2007 Feature
David MacMillan, a leading light in organocatalysis, takes James Mitchell Crow on a tour of the field
Superconductivity: explosive new images
13 July 2007 News Archive
UK chemists have created superconducting images, including the Chemistry World logo, on paper
The perfect host
29 June 2007 Feature
Could artificial enzymes finally be about to shake up catalysis? James Mitchell Crow investigates
ICI to be sold?
18 June 2007 News Archive
ICI has rejected a £7.2 billion bid from Dutch chemical firm Akzo Nobel, rival bids are expected
Young-ish giants party on
14 June 2007 News Archive
Chemistry's rising stars gather for Fraser Stoddart's 65th birthday
Renewed therapeutic promise for arthritis patients
13 June 2007 News Archive
News treatments for rheumatoid arthritis offer hope to patients where existing drugs have failed
Possible pollutants assessed in minutes
5 June 2007 News Archive
Computer system that predicts how chemicals biodegrade - or not - could help regulators spot persistent polluters
Nanocomposites from bubbles
29 May 2007 News Archive
Nanotubes and nanowires could be used in materials and devices by blowing them into films, a process so cheap it is used to make bin bags
Palladium coupling in fewer steps
24 May 2007 News Archive
Look out, Suzuki - Canadian chemists have successfully joined up simple benzene ring-like aromatics without any pre-activation
Scientists seek indicators of illness
22 May 2007 News Archive
Grand biomarker hunt announced by UK's Medical Research Council
Controlling prion folding
9 May 2007 News Archive
Prions, infamously linked to mad cow disease, have crucial subsections that control whether or not they will cross between species
Chemists arrive at the island of stability
2 May 2007 News Archive
Despite predictions of exotic properties, 'superheavy' element 112 behaves like one of the family
Delicate deprotection
30 September 2005 News Archive
Researchers claim to have developed a new protecting group.
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