Tag Archives: organic

Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 16, 2011 Comments Off

Device proves solar cell potential of high bandgap inorganic nanowire arrays – A report, published in the March 14 edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, announced the successful fabrication and testing of a new type solar cell using an …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 6, 2011 Comments Off

The ‘molecular octopus’: A little brother of ‘Schroedinger’s cat’ – For the first time, the quantum behaviour of molecules consisting of more than 400 atoms was demonstrated by quantum physicists based at the University of Vienna in collaboration with chemists …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 23, 2011 Comments Off

Two Queen’s University Belfast chemists ‘top in UK’ – Scientists from Queen's University, Belfast, have taken the first and second slots in a list of top chemists. Professor Ken Seddon, a director of the QUB's Ionic Liquids Laboratory (QUILL), came …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 17, 2011 Comments Off

Millimeter-sized monolayer crystals open the door to single crystal organic nanoelectronics – A research team have combined organic electronics with nanoelectronics and developed the first 2D crystal of organic semiconductors on the millimeter scale, the thickness of which is only …

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More chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 9, 2011 Comments Off

Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories – Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to determine how the radioactive elements …

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A chemical decathlon

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 1, 2011 Comments Off

Fish oil fights weight loss due to chemotherapy – A new analysis has found that supplementing the diet with fish oil may prevent muscle and weight loss that commonly occurs in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy. Published early online in …

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