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More chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 9, 2011 No comments

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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10 quick chemical hits: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 23, 2011 No comments

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 …

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Chemistry news - Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 21, 2011 No comments

Guest contributor, chemist Robert Slinn of the University of Liverpool, filters the latest happenings from the world of chemistry. Chemists separate water isomers - Nine years ago, Russian researchers sparked controversy when they claimed to have separated water into its …

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Slinn Pickings – chemical news updates

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 13, 2011 No comments

Guest blogger and chemist Robert Slinn contributes his favorite news snippets from the world of chemistry UvA chemists develop fully biodegradable and recyclable synthetic resin - Modern synthetic resins are made from fossil sources, are not biodegradable and can only …

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Spectroscopy, X-rays and arsenic

Posted by David Bradley on December 15, 2010 No comments

These are my SpectroscopyNOW headlines for this week: Color X-rays - X-rays are incredibly useful in diagnostic imaging but also come at a price because they are ionising and so have potential to damage tissues. In work that combines informatics, …

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Bucky bottle, MRI compression, healthy nanotech

Posted by David Bradley on December 1, 2010 No comments

Bucky bottle - Making a suitable hole in the fullerene cage and then attaching a molecular stopper gives us what might be flippantly termed a "bucky bottle". There are many possible applications for such an entity, according to researchers writing …

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