All articles by Chemistry World – Page 22
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Business
Business roundup: November 2011
Interview: Gilles Cottier Source: © SAFC The SAFC boss wants to see fewer vendors in the market SAFC president Gilles Cottier wants SAFC to hit $1 billion (£644 million) in sales by 2015, an ambitious target given that the company made $650 million in sales in 2010. ...
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News
Fluoride shuttle batteries lift off
Rechargeable batteries based on fluoride ions could have a better storage capacity than current batteries
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News
Hot chemistry
Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. Joanne Thomson finds out more
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Podcast
October 2011
Chemistry World Podcast -October 2011 1:05 -Microscopy reveals why ketchup squirts 5:07- Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery 7:20-Paul Shearing explains why you might want to swap your home boiler for a fuel cell 14:30-Two for one - cleaning water and generating energy 17:52-Bacteria responsible for missing 'atmospheric brooms' that ...
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Opinion
Letters: October 2011
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...
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Business
Business roundup: October 2011
Ireland still attractive to pharma industry Pharma and chemical products represent 50 per cent of Irish exports Less than a year has passed since internal economic turmoil in Ireland culminated in an unprecedented €83 billion (£71 billion) bailout, yet interest in pharma manufacturing in the country seems ...
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News
Interview Clyde Hutchison
Clyde Hutchison became a biologist almost by accident. Joanne Thomson learns that physics' loss is genomics' gain
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Podcast
September 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - September 20111:05 -Tequila for your fuel tank3:02-Possible origin of chirality in the RNA world6:47-Neil Fox explains why diamond is a chemist's best friend for generating electrical power from sunlight because of its unique properties12:57-Spotlight on polymerisation to repair damaged faces16:15-Nanorobots powered from beneath the skin18:28-Alan Clarke ...
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Opinion
Letters: September 2011
In his Last retort article on chemical words (Chemistry World, June 2011, p72), David Jones comments that the chemical name of DDT is the only one he knows of which fits perfectly into a poem. Paul Ehrlich’s anti-syphilis drug Salvarsan has also been set to poetry. The following limerick ...
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Business
Business roundup: September 2011
Challenges for the drugs to help you quit Source: © Shutterstock Tobacco kills six million people every year The share price of US-based Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has fallen by 70 per cent after it announced that its nicotine addiction treatment, NicVax, failed to reach its endpoint in the ...
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News
Chemical profits nibbled by oversupplies
Although China's chemical industry posted good figures in their mid-year reports, there could be a shadow looming on the horizon
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Podcast
August 2011
Chemistry World Podcast -August 20111:33 - Rollerball writes electronics straight to paper 3:30- Dinosaur smile reveals secret to staying cool 6:05- Julie Forman-Kay reveals that disordered, unfolded proteins are much more functional and much more common than previously thought 13:00- Cells turned into living lasers with fluorescent protein 15:27- A ...