News articles tagged with 'chemist'
Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories
— 8 Mar 2011 14:29 | ChemistryScientists 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…
International first: Gas-phase carbonic acid isolated
— 11 Jan 2011 17:56 | ChemistryA team of chemists headed by Thomas Loerting from the University of Innsbruck and Hinrich Grothe from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have prepared and isolated…
Warning lights mark shellfish that aren't safe to eat
— 16 Dec 2010 17:31 | BiologyRed tides and similar blooms can render some seafood unsafe to eat, though it can be difficult to tell whether a particular batch harbours toxins that cause food poisoning…
Nanoscale probe reveals interactions between surfaces and single molecules
— 18 Nov 2010 10:45 | ChemistryAs electronics become smaller and smaller the need to understand nanoscale phenomena becomes greater and greater. Because materials exhibit different properties at the nanoscale than…
Electron switch between molecules points way to new high-powered organic batteries
— 15 Sep 2010 18:18 | TechnologyThe development of new organic batteries - lightweight energy storage devices that work without the need for toxic heavy metals - has a brighter future now that chemists have discovered…
2 catalysts are better than 1
— 29 Jul 2010 10:22 | ChemistryMuch like two children in the back seat of a car, it can be challenging to get two catalysts to cooperate for the greater good. Now Northwestern University chemists have gotten two…
UD prof helps discover new chemical method important to drug design, agrichemicals
— 25 Jun 2010 12:23 | ChemistryUniversity of Delaware scientist Donald Watson is part of a research team that has discovered an easier method for incorporating fluorine into organic molecules, giving chemists an…
MIT chemists find an easier way to synthesise new drug candidates
— 25 Jun 2010 11:17 | HealthSome drugs may be more effective the longer they last inside the body. To prevent such drugs from being broken down too rapidly, pharmaceutical manufacturers often attach a fluorine-containing…
New nano-tool synthesised at Scripps Research Institute
— 14 Apr 2010 10:22 | ChemistryTwo chemists at The Scripps Research Institute have synthesised a new nano-scale scientific tool - a tiny molecular switch that turns itself on or off as it detects metallic ions in…
Enzyme design with remote effects
— 17 Feb 2010 13:38 | ChemistryEngineers are unlikely to tinker with the cooling system if they want to increase the size of an engine. Yet chemists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research have adopted an approach…