All articles by Simon Hadlington – Page 9
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Meteorites are a chip off the old asteroid block
Dust scraped from an asteroid 300 million km away will help researchers to form a picture of the solar system's history
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Breaking open boranes to power fuel cells
A new reusable ruthenium catalyst can efficiently extract hydrogen from ammonia borane for potential use in fuel cells
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Trifluoromethylation made easy
A simple way to insert fluorine into organic compounds could help chemists manufacture improved drugs
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Getting to the core of a tumour for drug study
Regions of tumours that are difficult to target with drugs are being studied to help scientists to develop more effective drugs
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Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery
An electrolyte that pairs magnesium with sulfur is a crucial step on the road to new efficient rechargeable batteries
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Ligand could capture actinides from spent nuclear fuel
A new ligand may solve the biggest problem of high-level nuclear waste - separating lanthanides from actinides
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Liquid crystals rearrange to glow in three different colours
Scientists describe the first liquid crystal system that can luminesce in three colours from a single light-emitting centre
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Archetypal lewis acid borane turned into a base
Carbenes stabilise an electron-rich borane centre to create a potential new class of ligands for transition metal catalysts
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Glucose meter adapted to detect a range of targets
DNA's ability to recognise multiple targets has been exploited to turn personal glucose meters into a universal sensor
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Chemists create a molecular ship in a bottle
A polyhedral molecular cage held together by dozens of hydrogen bonds may lead to new framework materials
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Natural products synthesised via a single parent molecule
Researchers take a leaf out of nature's book to synthesise a diverse range of natural products from a single precursor
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Speedy algal wound response revealed
The method of repair used by a marine alga to rapidly heal breaches in its cell wall could inspire new adhesives
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A cool way to store hydrogen?
Forget MOFs and carbon nanotubes - perhaps the best way to store hydrogen is already sitting in the freezer compartment
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Breaking the carbon-fluorine bond
The bonds between alkyl carbon and fluorine atoms are notoriously tough to break - could an iridium complex be the answer?
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Synthesising red wine's overlooked chemical secrets
Chemists have synthesised resveratrol oligomers, polyphenols found in grapes, which might have medicinal properties
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Chatty nanoparticles signal to each other to attack tumours
Nanoparticles that communicate with one another can work together to deliver large doses of drugs to tumour cells
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Nanoboxes given optoelectronic function
The boundaries of nano-engineering have been stretched a little further thanks to a 100nm hollow cube with gold patterning
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A new spin on protein NMR
A new way to study proteins using NMR has been developed by Italian and German researchers
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An electric partnership
Unlikely pairing of bacteria provides each one with chemicals to their mutual current-generating benefit in a bioelectrochemical reactor
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Getting to grips with volcanic ash
Researchers are learning a lot about the tiny particles of volcanic ash that have spewed from volcanoes in Iceland and caused misery for air travellers