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Chemistry contains multitudes
3+ week, 2+ day ago (120+ words) think we should be glad of is that chemistry (as a science and as a profession) can accommodate a wide variety...
Chemists may be misassigning defects in carbon materials, study suggests
4+ week, 1+ day ago (304+ words) Carbon-based materials, such as carbon fibre, graphene and carbon nanotubes, are used in fuel...influence the properties and functionality of carbon materials,’ says computational chemist Jean-Sabin McEwen...computationally analysed a variety of graphene-based materials with various defects using density functional...
Boron: in search of the real fifth element
3+ week, 3+ day ago (555+ words) Chemistry World Boron: in search of the real fifth element What makes boron so extraordinary? Find out on 21 October with author Stephen Mansell You are probably most familiar with boron as borosilicate glass, also known as Pyrex, found in laboratories…...
Hideki Shirakawa, who shared chemistry Nobel for discovering conductive polymers, passes away at 90
1+ week, 1+ day ago (552+ words) Chemist and materials scientist Hideki Shirakawa, who shared the chemistry Nobel prize for...insects and plants, and made radios. ‘My affinity for science was awakened and grew during these 10 years,’...Afterwards, he talked to Shirakawa about their mutual interest in…...
Waste chlorine upcycled into valuable materials using simple resin
1+ week, 3+ day ago (216+ words) Chlorine recovered from industrial tail gas streams could be directly upcycled into useful chemicals using a commercially available ion exchange resin. The reversible adsorption of chlorine gas onto the polystyrene-based resin could enable better use of large quantities of chlorine…...
Growing confidence of Africa???s chemical societies brings chemistry???s benefits to continent | News
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (653+ words) civil war through [to] 2003 pretty much erased science infrastructure – not just chemistry,’ says Adam...
Chemistry wordoku #155 | Puzzle
4+ week, 1+ day ago (146+ words) Chemistry wordoku #155 Chemistry World This chemistry wordoku spotlights a chemist who first proposed teaching through discovery lab work! Solve this wordoku in the same way as a sudoku with letters instead of numbers (each of the nine letters in each…...
Copper chains more than 4000 atoms long are the longest ever produced
1+ week, 4+ day ago (178+ words) fundamental physics research. Source: © Jie Zhang et al/Science/AAAS The carbon-sheathed copper wires were produced...
Do isolated molecules have structure?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (314+ words) How the superposition states described by quantum mechanics challenge the idea of molecular structure I don’t think I need to explain to chemists the importance of molecular structure. It is one of the most central properties invoked to understand natural…...
Cockroaches producing energy-rich milk bag this year’s chemistry Ig Nobel prize
1+ week, 1+ day ago (187+ words) jaunty cockroach hats The Ig Nobel prize for soil science rewarded a team that got citizens across Switzerland...Switzerland. ‘In many places, and especially in the US, science is being attacked in very fraudulent ways and...in small ways, is…...