Spent the weekend on the coast in scorching temperatures, so posting the latest Alchemist link a little late - The Alchemist Newsletter: July 27, 2011 - New understanding of high-temperature superconductors meshes theory and experiment after twenty years of research and could lead to new developments, even a temperature rise, The Alchemist learns. In energy […]
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Fluorine in organic chemistry is an important topic across the synthetic pharmaceutical, agrochemical and materials areas because switching out hydrogen atoms selectivity for this element allows chemists to tune the reactivity of specific groups within a given molecule. Now, chemists in Switzerland have turned to fluorine to help them make specific carbon-carbon bonds. The formation […]
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 from Basel and Delaware. Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles - Completing […]
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 plutonium and neptunium react with this rock. Chemist discovers shortcut for processing drugs - A […]
Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implications - An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy assessed the net greenhouse gas savings of bioethanol from sugarcane as compared to the use of fossil fuels. New growth inhibitors more effective in plants, less toxic to people - A Purdue University scientist and researchers in Japan have […]
Researchers Discover New Way to Design Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts - Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a new strategy for fabricating metal nanoparticles in catalysts that promises to enhance the selectivity and yield for a wide range of structure-sensitive catalytic reactions. Simpler way of making proteins could lead to new nanomedicine agents - Researchers have […]