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Interview with Dick Wife British-born Richard "Dick" Lewin Wife followed a traditional educational path, receiving his chemistry first degree from the University of Leeds in 1969 and staying on to do an organic PhD with David W. Jones. Read more...
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Molecular Light Switch According to Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, "Nanotechnology is the result of the marriage of the synthetic talent of Chemists with a device-driven ingenuity." |
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Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists from the UK and Japan to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. |
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Plastic Shape Shifter Temperature-controlled "triple-shaped plastics" that can change shape from one form to another, then another, have been developed by researchers in Germany and the US. |
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Bedwetting Chemistry A higher concentration of sodium and urea in urine could underlie a type of bedwetting in children that does not respond to the common medication, desmopressin. |
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Rubber Suits You Sir Military personnel, chemical workers, and others could benefit from a new synthetic rubber material tailored with liquid crystals. |
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Biomolecules Out on a Wing Photonic crystals give butterflies their beautiful colors and synthetic versions are now being developed for a range of technological applications. |
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