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Business
Business roundup: January 2010
Bayer to reduce cost of chlorine production German chemicals giant Bayer is commercialising a new way of making chlorine that it says uses 30 per cent less energy than current production methods. Better still, the company plans to make it possible to retrofit the technology to existing plants. Around ...
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News
News in brief: January 2010
Flexible organic flash memory In international team of researchers has made an elusive component of organic electronics - a flash memory transistor that can be incorporated into a thin, flexible plastic sheet. Source: © Science A flexible, flash memory transistor opens the door to new appliances ...
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Podcast
January 2010
Chemistry World Podcast - January 201000.11 - Introduction02.08 - Non-protein antifreeze helps Arctic beetle chill out 04.22 - Mussel proteins inspire new diabetes treatment 06.53 - Ben Feringa on the future of molecular machines 14.15 - Carbonic acid captured16.36 - Breaking the strongest bonds 19.18 - Marco Leona on analytical ...
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News
New approach for EU research called for
Experts call for EU leaders to make 'radical improvements' in research policy following an assessment of the current state of European science
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Podcast
December 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - December 200900.11 - Introduction01.52 - Nanoscience brings artworks back to life04.30 - Monitoring asthma with mobile phones07.00 - Mike Barlow on spectroscopy opening windows on the universe14.03 - Acid solution for nanotube fibres16.09 - New evidence for toxic effects of inhaled nanotubes19.02 - Sigurd Hofmann on ...
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News
China's war on food additives a difficult task
A year on from the melamine contamination that aroused wide public concern and caused thousands of children to fall ill, the Chinese authorities have launched a new round of campaigns to clean up the food additives market
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News
Heavy metals cause further troubles
Despite governmnet crackdowns, further cases of heavy metal pollution and poisoning have been reported across China
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News
Liang Zicai: brewing Chinese siRNA dream
Small-interfering RNA landed in Liang Zicai's sights a decade ago, and has remained his focus ever since
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Opinion
Letters: December 2009
So now (post 30 September 2009) you can’t buy sodium chlorate weedkiller, ostensibly as the result of a Brussels directive. Apparently it is too toxic. Or is it that it can be used as an oxidant in terrorism? (But I understand the commercial product contains fire suppressants, and in any ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2009
Bolivia to lead the electric revolution Bolivia’s decision to develop commercial scale lithium mining by 2014 is good news for the emerging electric car industry and lithium battery producers, but exactly how one of the world’s poorest nations will accomplish this ambitious goal is still uncertain. Yaron Vorona, executive director ...
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Podcast
November 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - November 200902.04 - How bubbles in champagne pack in the flavour04.30 - Iridescent squid provide inspiration for James Bond's car paint06.28 - Nobel laureate Tom Steitz talks about fame and the ribosome10.47 - Tom Blundell on designing drugs for HIV15.15 - The best evidence yet for ...
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News
Celebrating chemistry
Today 800 chemists will gather to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of chemistry as an academic subject