December 2005

Vol 2, no.12

Chemistry World Letters, December 2005

Chemistry World Reviews, December 2005

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December 2005

News and analysis

08 November 2005

The University of Manchester and IBM have struck a deal to promote joint research between the two organisations.

31 October 2005

Fire has destroyed Europe's major optoelectronics interdisciplinary research centre at Southampton University, UK.

04 November 2005

The European Union is aiming for a 25 per cent reduction in EU emissions of three greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto protocol.

26 October 2005

The University of Dundee, UK is to tackle the issue of neglected tropical diseases with a �13 million five-year project.

14 October 2005

Europe has a 'daunting mountain' to climb if it is to deliver the Lisbon agenda, says UK trade and industry minister, Alun Michael.

31 October 2005

Richard Smalley, who shared the 1996 Nobel prize for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs, has died aged 62 after a long battle with cancer.

01 November 2005

The UK chemical industry has received a barrage of warnings about sustainability from leading members of its community.

09 November 2005

Open access publisher BioMed Central has rejected suggestions by UK science minister Lord Sainsbury that open access is losing support.

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Chemical Science

25 October 2005

DNA ink has been used to paint molecular pictures, thanks to a nanopipette developed by researchers in the UK.

24 October 2005

Carbon nanotubes could soon replace silicon as the material of choice for the probe tips used in atomic force microscopy.

14 October 2005

The concentrations of pharmaceuticals turning up in sewage plants and drinking water increase as the weather gets colder, report researchers in Finland.

21 October 2005

Researchers in Canada have discovered a surprising antifreeze protein used by insects living at sub-zero temperatures.

02 November 2005

An electrochemically activated write-read-erase system, gated by magnetic nanoparticles, adds a new dimension to information storage.

04 November 2005

UK scientists have made nanosized particles of iron-platinum, which are ordered on the atomic scale. They hope these will find a use in computer hard drives.

25 October 2005

Scientists in Japan and Canada have calculated the likely position of water molecules in a protein, claiming this could lead to better models of drug-protein interactions

28 October 2005

The impotence drug Viagra could be used to block gastric inflammation caused by drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen.

10 November 2005

The self-assembly of metal nanoparticles at fluid interfaces has been successfully demonstrated by German researchers.

07 November 2005

Advances in the synthesis of ligands for use in rhodium-based catalysts could lead to industrially viable applications.

19 October 2005

Organic compounds consisting of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen are probably widespread throughout interstellar space, according to a team of Nasa scientists.

13 October 2005

Scientists in Australia have synthesised a polymer based on the elastic protein resilin used to keep flies flying, fleas jumping and cicadas singing.

02 November 2005

A modified version of human serum albumin that binds oxygen has been created marking a first step towards a new form of artificial blood.

03 November 2005

Water passes through nanotube nicotine patches faster than predicted and offers new drug delivery prospects, say US scientists.

31 October 2005

Acute toxicity testing of ionic liquids with zebrafish suggests that some of these compounds pose a risk to the aquatic environment.

04 November 2005

A remarkable molecular gearbox with potential applications in nanoscience and smart materials has been developed.

07 November 2005

The care and restoration of wax-based paintings could be easier following the arrival of a new gas chromatography method.

20 October 2005

Gold nanoparticles can catalyse specific oxidation reactions using air and no solvents

10 November 2005

Sugar and vegetable oil are all you need to make biodiesel, say researchers in Japan.

27 October 2005

Silicon has been given a new lease of life with news of a silicon-based material that converts electronic data into optical data with unprecedented efficiency.

31 October 2005

Researchers in Thailand have developed a method for estimating the bioavailability of several essential elements at once from a continuous in vitro digestion system.

07 November 2005

New electrochromic thin films that show promising potential for use in high performance displays have been developed by Chinese researchers.

09 November 2005

A new replication method has been developed for producing thin porous chips.

24 November 2005

Scientists from Hong Kong have demonstrated a strategy for tuning the pitch of metal-organic helical polymers by choice of metal ion or counter anion.

02 November 2005

A polymer that forms helices when dissolved in water could lead to new materials for bio and electronic applications.

11 November 2005

Answers to how living cells and bacteria receive molecular signals and deal with the initial steps of viral infection may soon be revealed.

03 November 2005

A new structure has been developed that promises to serve as the core for a novel self-assembling dendrimer.

01 November 2005

Modulating electron flow along a donor-connector-acceptor system by control of the central torsion angle of a bridging group could lead to improved communication systems.

15 November 2005

New complexes with multi-bridging, multi-coordination mode thione ligands have been discovered.