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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 4, 2011 Comments Off

Novel nanosensor platform for direct detection of a cancer biomarker in blood – In a recent development, scientists in Spain have developed a rapid nanochannel-based immunoassay capable of the filtering and subsequent detection of proteins in whole blood without any …

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Chemistry news – Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 19, 2011 Comments Off

Guest contributor, chemist Robert Slinn of the University of Liverpool, filters the latest happenings from the world of chemistry. Oxidation mechanisms at gold nanoclusters unraveled – Researchers believe that the puzzle of catalytic gold is now partially solved. Scared to …

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How to make a bigger periodic table

Posted by David Bradley on October 22, 2010 Comments Off

A paper published this week in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics maps out 54 unknown chemical elements that could lie beyond element 118, ununoctium. Mendeleev’s original classification of the elements into groups and periods is underpinned by chemical quantum mechanics, which describes the …

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