All articles by Andy Extance – Page 19
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Templates ring up uniform nanotubes
Carbon nanotube growth from ‘nanorings’ provides diameter control
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Microreactors tame osmium tetroxide
Nanobrush-lined silicone channels spare chemists from deadly fumes, while achieving high dihydroxylation and oxidative cleavage conversions
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ResearchElectron flashes catch organics in the act
‘Beautiful’ diffraction movie shows small molecule superconductor candidate transition from insulator to metal phases
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Split water splitting raises green hydrogen hopes
Two-stage electrolysis releases hydrogen on demand separately from oxygen, enabling cheaper renewable energy production
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Court convicts ex-Aptuit researcher over drug data
Altered liquid chromatography results at Scottish site lead to first successful good lab practice prosecution
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FeatureTiny insights
Chemists and materials scientists are adopting a range of three-dimensional imaging techniques to reveal structural secrets. Andy Extance looks inside their work
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NewsUniversity cleared, student recovering after poisoning
Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage
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'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues
Silica-coated gold nanoparticles enable versatile optical sensing method to track reaction kinetics
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BusinessUK considers patent rule change for trials
Government to change law that organisations say makes the country less appealing as a location for clinical trials
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Chemical transport defines ‘Goldilocks’ cell size
Too big and macromolecules like proteins and DNA have to travel too far, too small and they’re too crowded
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Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures
Reaction-timescale x-ray images of I2 formation push instrumental and interpretation boundaries
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Insulator pile shows solar potential
LaVO3/SrTiO3 system promises to bring better electron-hole separation and native electrodes to photovoltaics
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FeaturePhenome Centre goes for gold
Andy Extance finds out how British researchers are turning Olympic anti-doping facilities into a world-leading facility to understand the links between metabolism, chemicals and health
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Enzyme draws nanopore protein sequencing nearer
Californian team hope changes in current as unfoldase drags proteins through a pore could identify individual amino acids
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BusinessIndia pushes for emergency drug licences
Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs
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Crystals aim to light up dark matter
Scaling calcium tungstate detector up to 500kg will improve chances of finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)
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NewsPhenome centre move ends GSK role
‘Olympic legacy’ centre to shift to dedicated Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital facility
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FeatureOvercoming small obstacles
Fabrication methods combining printing and lithography have proven fertile. Andy Extance now asks how successful will they be outside the lab
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Chemists cull compounds using ‘intuition’
Medicinal chemists apparently decided which fragments should be in their screening collection using surprisingly few parameters
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Molecular muscle machines bulk up
Iron co-ordination wrestles daisy-chain rotaxane molecular machines into a muscle-mimicking polymer