November 2007
Full issue available online.
Column
Changes to A-level chemistry
Will the new GCE AS and A2 chemistry specifications satisfy the wide range of students they serve, as well as UK university chemistry departments?
Industry commits £500k to develop A-level chemistry
The teaching of organic and physical chemistry at A-level will benefit from new resources developed by the RSC with funding from Shire and Reckitt Benckiser
Know the SCORE
What's on the agenda for the recently formed Science Community Partnership Supporting Education?
And the winner is...
Franziska Bell, chemistry graduate from the University of York, wins Best Chemistry Student prize at this year's Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards
Moseley landmark
Royal Society of Chemistry recognises importance of x-ray studies done by Henry Moseley at Oxford University site
Isciences on offer
Four universities in England now offer a new style of science degree - the Institute of Physics' Integrated sciences degree course
Programme to support the separate sciences
Science teachers can access online resources to support the teaching of the separate sciences at GCSE
Chemical education research fellowships
RSC Education Division launches initiative designed to foster collaboration between chemical education researchers from both sides of the Atlantic
Launchpad ready for lift-off
In November the Science Museum in London will reopen its hands-on science gallery, Launchpad
In brief
Items: Various short items
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: the gens have it
Soundbite molecules
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: hospital beds with a silver lining?
Product review
In this column John Emsley, University of Cambridge, looks at the chemistry behind familiar, everyday products. In this issue: antiperspirants
Web watch
Tony Tooth takes a look at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers In this issue: diagrams, presentations and videos
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, November 2007
Exhibition Chemistry
Exhibition chemistry
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination, by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: the extraction of iron
Features
Polymers on the move
Fuel prices and the impact transport has on the environment are leading car and aircraft manufacturers to use more lightweight plastics and composites in their products
Fuelling the future: solid phase hydrogen storage
The portable and safe storage of hydrogen will be fundamental to the success of fuel cell-powered cars
I can see clearly now
Thanks to advances in polymer chemistry contact lenses are now more comfortable and fashionable
Early pain-free days
Towards the latter part of 19th century cocaine provided the lead for chemists to develop effective local anaesthetics for dental surgery
Reviews
The Periodic Table: elements
Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher
Experimental physical chemistry: a laboratory textbook (3rd edn)
Arthur M. Halpern and George C. McBane
CSI secondary CD-ROM
Peter Johnson
Distillates
Insecticidal synthesis
Cambridge chemists unlock the structural secrets of the Indian lilac's handy chemical weapon
Colourful nanotech
US scientists discover a new class of iron oxide nanoparticles that, when in solution, change colour in the presence of a magnetic field
Elemental magnetism
US and German scientists induce magnetic moment in carbon nanoparticles by using proton beam
Morphing Caffeine
Canadian scientists use high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the crystal structures of caffeine and other nitrogen-rich compounds
Bonding Solution
Canadian chemists are making a range of catalysts that not only speed up reactions but can endow molecules with much greater reactivity than normal
Infochem
