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This week’s chemistry news – Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on June 28, 2011 Comments Off

Scientists discover dielectron charging of water nano-droplet – Scientists have discovered fundamental steps of charging of nano-sized water droplets and unveiled the long-sought-after mechanism of hydrogen emission from irradiated water. Photosystems made using ’3D Tetris’ – Scientists in Switzerland have …

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This week’s chemistry news – Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on June 21, 2011 Comments Off

Quantum leap: Magnetic properties of a single proton directly observed for the first time – Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg …

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Slinn Pickings – chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on June 17, 2011 Comments Off

Scientists develop a fatty ‘kryptonite’ to defeat multidrug-resistant ‘Super bugs’ – A team of Canadian scientists have discovered that specific mixtures of antimicrobial agents presented in lipid (fatty) mixtures can significantly boost the effectiveness of those agents to kill the …

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Slinn Pickings – chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on June 5, 2011 Comments Off

DNA can discern between two quantum states, research shows – Research, which appeared recently in Science, shows that a biological molecule — DNA — can discern between quantum states known as spin. Caltech researchers build largest biochemical circuit out of …

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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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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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