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Chemistry World
November 8, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
First Mg(I) Complex Made Chemists have created the first stable magnesium(I) compounds, a breakthrough for a metal whose chemistry is ruled by the oxidation state.   |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2015
Andy Extance |
Chemists zinc up 'aromatic' metal cubes Researchers in China and the US have synthesized polyzinc clusters that have pushed back the boundaries of the kind of aromatic structures chemists can make. |
Chemistry World
March 9, 2015
Jennifer Newton |
Group 12 members unite in unusual bonding situation Chemists in the UK have created the unique trimetallic complex {( Ar'NacNac)Zn} 2Hg. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2013
Polly Wilson |
Hydrogen adopts alkali metal position For the first time, scientists have shown that hydrogen can stand in for alkali metals in typical alkali metal structures. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2011
Josh Howgego |
Calcium ion is the key to plant's water splitting secret The first model of photosystem II - a key part of the biological machinery that drives photosynthesis - has been constructed. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Shortest Metal Bond Chemists in the US have made a quintuply-bonded dichromium complex with the shortest metal-metal bond ever isolated. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
New Way to Produce Heavy Rare Earth Metals Chemists have for the first time demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of a solid oxide of a heavy rare earth metal into its metallic state. |
Chemistry World
January 2009
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless |
Chemistry World
January 19, 2007
Lionel Milgrom |
Quantum Theory Reveals Why Lead Poisons Lead is one heavy metal. It can cause irreversible blood, brain, kidney, and liver damage. But why is it so toxic? Using quantum chemistry and enzyme model compounds, researchers now believe they have the answer. |
Chemistry World
June 2007
Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table. |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Super-thin nanowires made inside nanotubes Japanese researchers have made ultra-thin metal wires by growing them inside carbon nanotubes. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 54
David Bradley |
Metals Take on Carbon's Bonding Characteristics A rethink about chemical bonding might be in the cards thanks to research that shows that the metal indium forms bonds in a manner not dissimilar to organic carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions. |
Chemistry World
December 23, 2008
Tom Westgate |
Gallium and uranium join forces A molecule featuring the first ever uranium-gallium bond may shed light on how related carbene ligands selectively extract uranium from lanthanides |
Chemistry World
June 1, 2012
Mike Sutton |
A reluctant chemist A century after Francois Auguste Victor Grignard's Nobel prize, organic chemists are still using the reagents he developed. |
Technology Research News
September 24, 2003 |
Artificial DNA stacks metal atoms In recent years, researchers have replaced some of DNA's natural bases with those that attach to metal atoms in order to coax DNA to organize metal ions into tiny structures. Researchers in Japan have tapped the method to form stacks of single metal ions. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 37
David Bradley |
Magnetic Plastics Cheap, lightweight, non-metallic magnets could result from the discovery of badly behaved electrons in a new type of free radical discovered by US researchers. |
Chemistry World
January 26, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Blue LEDs may be caught in a trap Blue LEDs are notoriously difficult to make, which has slowed down the production of cheap, highly efficient white LED light bulbs. Now, UK scientists think they know why. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2015
Emma Cooper |
Calcium carbide replaces explosive acetylene in organic synthesis Scientists have replaced explosive acetylene with cheap and benign calcium carbide to make common small organic molecules in a safer, cheaper and more atom-economical way, and at scale. |
Chemistry World
January 25, 2013
Laura Howes |
Switchable catenane ready for data storage A quick experiment at the start of a PhD has resulted in a stable organic compound with four unpaired electrons. The researchers are now investigating this unusual structure for applications in batteries and data storage. |
Chemistry World
September 2, 2013
Laura Howes |
New oxidation state of uranium discovered The new +2 oxidation state, sought for over 30 years, has been seen fleetingly in the gas phase but until now it has not been observed in molecular species in solution. |
Technology Research News
August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge. |
Chemistry World
March 3, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Sulfide Sponge Could Clean up Nuclear Waste A new material that can extract radioactive strontium ions from solutions could help to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers in the US. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Miyoko Ohtake |
Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals New research allows mutations of metal elements to include more atoms. |
Chemistry World
October 15, 2014
Andy Extance |
Fluorescent DNA becomes versatile metal detector Researchers at Stanford University in the US have devised a cheap DNA-based system able to detect and identify an unprecedented number of metals in water. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2011
David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging. |
Chemistry World
September 6, 2010
Mike Brown |
Nanocoat for restoring historic paintings New inorganic nanoparticles that simultaneously restore and preserve ancient artworks have been developed by researchers in Italy. |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2013
Andy Extance |
Crystals aim to light up dark matter German scientists hunting dark matter are set to produce half a ton of high-purity calcium tungstate for their detectors, one 1kg crystal at a time. |
Chemistry World
October 30, 2014
Philip Ball |
Spheres of influence Ferran Adria has worked for years to perfect the technique of spherification: encapsulating liquid foods in an edible polymer skin. It is one of the most striking coups of molecular gastronomy. |
Popular Mechanics
August 1998
Thomas Klenck |
Water Softeners They make hard water easy to get along with... |
National Gardening
Lynn Grieger |
Boning Up Dark green, antioxidant-rich vegetables are among the best sources of dietary calcium... |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2013
Emily James |
Lanthanide munching bacteria found in volcanoes Scientists in the Netherlands have obtained the first evidence of a lifeform dependant on rare earth metals. The work may lead to the discovery of other previously unknown lifeforms and could advance rare earth bio-mining. |
Chemistry World
October 17, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Heaviest Element Awaits Confirmation A team of Russian and American scientists has claimed the discovery of element 118, the newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014 |
Rare: the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on earth This book talks about the rare earth metals that are used in many technologies, and the politics surrounding them. |
Food Processing
June 2013
Mark Anthony |
Boning Up on Nutrition: Food Manufacturers Take a Closer Look at Dietary Calcium With a $4 billion bone and joint health market, functional ingredient manufacturers look to dietary calcium and Vitamin D's capabilities to help restore cracks in bone health. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2010
Andy Extance |
Prepare to lose metals, says UN group Supplies of speciality metals like lithium, neodymium and indium could become restricted unless recycling rates improve. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2011
Meera Senthilingam |
UK report calls for new approach to strategic metals The UK will need to secure supplies of strategic metals or future economic growth will be put at risk, a Science and Technology Committee report warns. |
