All articles by David Bradley – Page 4
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The buzz about finding new allotropes
A particle swarm search has thrown up potential new forms of carbon, silicon and germanium
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Homeostatic hydrogels to help heat the home
A new material that responds to environmental stimuli and can self-regulate its response could help keep homes at just the right temperature
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First stable hydroxide-conducting membrane created
Steric crowding used to stabilise alkaline membrane that could find use in novel fuel cells
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Tripling up on boron bonds
The world's first stable triple-bonded boron compound has been created
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NewsPlutonium in a spin
Japanese and US researchers have solved the decades-old problem of plutonium-239’s NMR spectrum
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A colourful way to size up nanoparticles
The way in which nanoparticles scatter light can be used to determine their size
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Taming an explosive chemical tiger
Biphasic reaction conditions enable the safe production of a steady stream of the highly reactive methylating reagent diazomethane in situ
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Taming an explosive chemical tiger
Biphasic reaction conditions enable the safe production of the highly reactive methylating reagent diazomethane in situ
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Light-sensitive shape-shifters are swell gels
Chemists mimic the natural shape-shifting abilities of biological tissues using a half-tone printing technique on a polymer
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Light-sensitive shape-shifters are swell gels
Chemists mimic the natural shape-shifting abilities of biological tissues using a half-tone printing technique on a polymer
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Roaming reactions double up in atmospheric chemistry
The hitherto elusive mechanism that underlies the atmospheric photochemistry of nitrogen(VI) oxide has been unravelled by chemists
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10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort
Chemists create a boron compound with the most coordination linkages ever seen in a planar species
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Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through
Graphene oxide film allows water through but not helium, opening up possibilities for separation technologies
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The TNA world that came before the RNA one
Chemists find evidence that a nucleic acid that is simpler than RNA could have been the primordial genetic material
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Zombie reaction returns from the dead
School children have discovered an oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction that springs back to life after five hours
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A soluble solution to the Haber process?
Chemists are a step closer to a soluble iron catalyst for the Haber-Bosch process which would improve efficiency
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Faster synthesis of fluorine radioisotope imaging agents
Palladium reagent allows quick production of radio-labelled imaging molecules before isotopes pass best before
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Clicking together cultural niches
Click reactions have been used to control cells' culture media to study cellular processes in greater detail
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Hope for arsenic free water from deep underground
Sediment deep underground could protect communities from water contaminated with arsenic by locking the toxic element away
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Ammonium radical is atomic pretender
Computational simulations have demonstrated that the neutral ammonium radical behaves like a sodium atom