All articles by Chemistry World – Page 25
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Opinion
Letters: March 2011
David Jones in ’Sparks of illumination’ (Chemistry World, January 2011, p80) lists three sparkers: iron, titanium and cerium, but he does not refer to the actinide metals, neither does he refer to pyrite, FeS2. The name pyrite is derived from the Greek in allusion to the sparks emitted when it ...
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Business
Business roundup: March 2011
Venom kits for drug discovery research Drug discovery companies can now buy venom kits to help them find new avenues of investigation by high throughput screening. Each kit from Swiss company Bachem is a plate with a series of wells - each well contains peptide fragments from the venoms ...
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News
Repairing faulty genes
New compounds stop the premature interruption of protein production, a cause of diseases
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Podcast
February 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - February 20111:22 -Einstein in your engine3:20 -Silk woven into transistors5:30 -Joseph Jasinski from IBM on harnessing the power of your desktop PC to solve big scientific problems13:08 -Using HIV against itself16:39 -Microfluidic pinball 19:50 -Joe Jones from Skyonic on turning CO2 from power plants into baking ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2011
With the climate change problem increasing by the day, the apparent lack of urgency exemplified by the European Union’s renewable energy programme (Chemistry World, December 2010, p8), with the ’first allocations of funding in the second half of 2012’ is surely disturbing. The longer we delay, the more the ’catch-up’ ...
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News
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates
Aaron Ciechanover tells us why Charles Darwin is his hero in chemistry
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News
Note book: February 2011
LEDs are hazardous waste Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) should be classified as hazardous waste according to a study in the US. LEDs are advertised as environmentally friendly because they are energy efficient. But acid tests that mimic the chemical conditions encountered in landfill registered high levels of copper, lead, nickel ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2011
DuPont signs $6.3 billion Danisco deal Source: © Danisco Danisco divested its flavour and sugar businesses in the last five years US chemical major DuPont has agreed to buy Danish food ingredients and enzymes company Danisco for $5.8 billion (£3.7 billion), plus $500 million of Danisco ...
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News
Artificial intestine for gut studies
A 3D hydrogel scaffold that mimics gastrointestinal villi for cell culture studies
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News
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates
Harry Kroto tells us why Sir John Kappa is his hero in chemistry
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Opinion
Letters: January 2011
I was delighted to see the glass industry under examination in The last retort (Chemistry World, November 2010, p78). However, I was surprised at David Jones’ lack of understanding of materials’ properties and the current state-of-the-art in the glass industry. Glass is actually a relatively good thermal insulator; an ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2011
New pharma bosses take up challenge Can Ian Read (L) and Ken Frazier (R) solve the big pharma problem? Two of the big US pharma companies have appointed new chief executives. Jeff Kindler has unexpectedly retired from Pfizer after four and a half years as chief ...
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Podcast
January 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - January 201100:12- Introduction 01:15- No stone left unturned in oil hunt 03:45- Mystery of diamond polishing solved? 06:50- Jack Lifton on the importance of rare earth elements and why we need ...