All Culture and people articles – Page 204
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Opinion
Soxhlet extractor
One sure-fire way of entering the chemical pantheon is to get your name associated with a piece of kit
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Careers
Formulating a rewarding career
From unlikely beginnings as a botanist, Mark Bell became hooked on formulation chemistry. Sarah Houlton finds out how this shaped a successful business
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Opinion
Column: Bench monkey
What could possibly contain the strongest acid in the world, asks Dylan Stiles
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Review
Metals in Medicine
The application of metal ions or metal-containing compounds as medicines goes back many hundreds, even thousands, of years
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Review
Ecological impact
Understanding our environment, therefore, requires an understanding of environmental chemistry
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Review
Cinderella of the Polymer World
Water- soluble polymers - whether derived from nature or entirely man-made - tend to get forgotten
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Review
Catalysis - where 'green' started
The potential for carrying out reactions with exceptional selectivity under very mild conditions clearly fits with the concepts of green chemistry
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Review
Chemistry for all our needs and desires
Chemistry surrounds us now, and will be crucial to our future well-being
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FeatureThe enduring image
In the commercial battle between digital and analogue photography, physics eventually prevailed. Here, Mike Ware reveals how chemistry shaped the history of photographic images
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Careers
Volunteering to inspiring
Adele Patterson is devoted to helping new chemists build their own careers but nothing will keep her out of the lab. Yfke Hager meets her