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Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier	Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity.
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Smoothing out plasmonic surfaces US scientists have found a simple way to make smooth metal films with nano-scale patterns in a variety of shapes that could one day be used in plasmonic devices that manipulate electromagnetic waves.
Chemistry World November 16, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Tantalizing Boost for Hydrogen Storage US chemists have announced the discovery of a new hydrogen-storage material, which they say stores large amounts of the gas at room temperature.
Chemistry World July 31, 2008	Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts.
Chemistry World March 10, 2009 Alexander Hellemans	Making pentagonal ice An international group of researchers have discovered that pentagonal structures of ice can be formed on copper surfaces consisting of Cu (110) substrates.
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 Philip Ball	Getting under water's skin The surface tension of water is explained in textbooks with pictures showing water molecules pulling each other sideways and downwards at the liquid surface, producing a kind of surface 'skin'.
Chemistry World July 5, 2011 Mike Brown	Metallic Pick and Mix with Complexes Scientists in Germany have plucked a metal ion from the middle of a phthalocyanine molecule on a silver surface. The simple method of removal, which employs a scanning tunnelling microscope, could be used to make cheaper molecular storage devices.
Chemistry World March 6, 2011 Mike Brown	Molecules that walk, hop and jump 'Two legged' molecules walk, hop and fly across a receptor surface, according to researchers in the Netherlands and Ireland. The findings could help us understand how viruses and bacteria interact with cell membranes, they say.
Chemistry World August 13, 2010 James Urquhart	Zooming in on intermolecular bonds German researchers have captured clear images of intermolecular bonds for the first time using a modified form of scanning tunnelling microscopy.
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Chemistry World August 17, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Plasma Treatment to Use Patient's Proteins to Improve Medical Device Biocompatibility Researchers have developed a plasma treatment that can make any medical device biocompatible by sticking a patient's own proteins to it.
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Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.
Chemistry World March 11, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Building nano-scale electronic contacts An international team of researchers has discovered a way of firmly 'welding' carbon nanotubes to metal particles that could lead to new nano-scale electronic contacts.
Chemistry World May 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	A novel designer surface catalyst for oxidations Scientists in China have developed a new surface-based catalyst that can selectively oxidise carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide in the presence of hydrogen.
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Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Metal expands electrically Researchers from Germany and Austria have found a way to make metal expand and contract like piezoceramics, which are commonly used as actuators in inkjet printers and automobile fuel injection nozzles. The expanding metal, however requires less voltage than piezoceramics.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Nanotubes Move Molten Metal Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a way to move globules of molten metal that are as small as 30 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, or the span of 10 hydrogen atoms.
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Philip Ball	Water's Surface is Acidic Pure, neutral water has an acid skin. This striking notion has now been confirmed by calculations and tests by an international team of scientists. The finding could be significant for a number of disciplines.
Chemistry World April 24, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Researchers 'See' Catalyst Molecules at Work Researchers have for the first time 'watched' in real time single molecules of catalyst participating in a reaction at a solid-liquid interface.
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	A Chequerboard of Water Water droplets cling in flat squares and dance in round globes on a smart surface created by South Korean researchers. Exposure to light wipes away the pattern, and an alternative can be written in with no etching required.
Chemistry World February 12, 2013 Philip Ball	Water structure controversy laid to rest? A controversy about the structure of liquid water that has raged for almost a decade may be laid to rest by a new computational study.
Chemistry World November 1, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Shaking up Nanofriction US scientists have performed the equivalent of the school-lab experiment of dragging a mass across different surfaces to measure frictional forces - but at the atomic scale.
Chemistry World July 4, 2010 Hayley Birch	DNA sticks at flick of switch A new technique that sticks individual DNA molecules to a gold surface works at the flick of an electrochemical switch.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Hayley Birch	Lift off for nanoscale printing A new printing technique developed by US scientists allows them to transfer a pattern with nanoscale features from a stamp onto a surface, achieving surprisingly sharp results. The technique could help bring down the cost of high resolution lithography.
Chemistry World October 17, 2011 Andy Extance	Water erodes 'lock and key' drug model US researchers have dealt a severe blow to the idea of a single 'hydrophobic effect' that can help explain how all drugs dock with proteins.
Chemistry World July 19, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Designing porous patterns Belgian chemists are finally getting to grips with how to control the way molecules arrange themselves at the solid-liquid interface.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Nano Pyramids Boost Fuel Cells Researchers have devised a way to make iridium surfaces that are extremely finely textured. The surface is textured with pyramids which increases the available surface area of the metal. The increased surface area speeds the catalytic reaction that breaks down ammonia to extract hydrogen.
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright	'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires.
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Chemistry World April 2, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Hydrogen That Mimics Graphene Researchers claim to have discovered a new phase of hydrogen in which the diatomic molecules break apart to form six-atom rings, similar to graphene. The new phase, which occurs at very high pressures, could be a stepping stone towards a long-sought after phase: metallic hydrogen.
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Chemistry World December 7, 2011 Anne Horan	Catalyst clears up corrosion UK scientists have developed a cheap way of cleaning tarnished metals in industry to prevent corrosion using a UV activated photocatalyst ink. The dirty surface can then simply be washed away with water.
Chemistry World June 6, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Fingerprints Recovered From Wiped Metal Forensic scientists can now find fingerprints on metal surfaces that have been wiped clean. Scientists have developed a way of enhancing the patterns that fingerprint residues corrode in metal surfaces.
Chemistry World August 27, 2009 Nina Notman	Molecules in close-up A tuning-fork-like device than measures atomic forces is able to image every single atom in a molecule, according to its Swiss inventors.
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly.
Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Alkali metal explosion explained The chemistry behind dropping sodium into water and watching it explode may require a rethink, according to scientists in the Czech Republic.
Chemistry World June 1, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface.