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Chemistry World May 15, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Chiral Confusion Scientists in Israel have shown that non-biological chiral crystals are much more abundant than previously thought and their findings could clear up a possible confusion over the term 'chiral'.
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley	Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia.
Chemistry World May 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Liquid crystals spot bacteria to order Liquid crystals could one day be used as bio-sensors, detecting the presence of minute amounts of pathogens. That is the claim of a US group of researchers, who have demonstrated how a liquid crystal changes orientation in the presence of bacteria.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.
Chemistry World June 5, 2012 Simon Perks	Chiral separation with micro-flows How do you separate enantiomers without any kind of chiral recognition between molecules? The answer it seems is to use asymmetric flow in a micro-fluidic channel.
Chemistry World September 3, 2015 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Electric switch makes helix change hands Application of an electric field in the direction opposite to that of the macrodipole reverses the handedness of the structure.
Chemistry World February 9, 2015 Hugh Cowley	Unexpected success with luminescent liquid crystals A simple and effective procedure to incorporate strongly-emitting inorganic clusters into nematic liquid crystals has been reported by a team from France.
Chemistry World November 3, 2011 Erica Wise	A Model for the Single Chirality of Life The boiling solutions in prebiotic hot springs could shed light on the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in nature, say Spanish scientists.
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox.
Chemistry World August 3, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Liquid Crystals Rearrange to Glow in Three Colours Chemists in Japan have created a luminescent liquid crystal that can switch between three different colours when stimulated with heat and mechanical force.
Chemistry World September 13, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Red Oxygen Structure Revealed An international team of researchers has cracked a conundrum that has baffled scientists for years: they have elucidated the crystalline structure of an enigmatic phase of solid oxygen that arises when the molecule is subjected to high pressure.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Liquid Crystal IDs Pathogens Liquid crystal is not only the stuff of computer screens and watch displays, it is also how your cell membranes are structured. Combining the similarly structured artificial and biological materials makes a device that detects viruses and toxins.
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 David Bradley	Microwaves show their hand The chirality of a gas phase molecule held in an electric field can be revealed using microwave spectroscopy. Hooking the technique to a separation step might even be exploited to isolate a specific enantiomer from a racemic mixture of both forms.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.
Chemistry World May 27, 2015 Emma Stephen	ZIF-8 disrupts ionic liquid deep freeze Researchers from Japan have combined an ionic liquid with a metal -- organic framework to produce an unusual material that retains its conductivity below -- 20 C.
Chemistry World September 3, 2008 Hayley Birch	Double emulsions could carry combination therapies US scientists have made nanoscale water-in-oil-in-water emulsions that could have important applications in drug delivery.
Chemistry World June 6, 2010 Philip Ball	Blood-like liquid protein formed A liquid form of the oxygen-binding protein myoglobin retains its biological function even though it seems virtually water-free, researchers have found.
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley	Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology.
Chemistry World June 18, 2014 Michael Parkin	Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation.
Chemistry World August 8, 2012 James Urquhart	Liquid Gallium Lights Up US researchers have developed a nanomoulding technique for patterning liquid gallium that enables surface plasmons to become excited using visible light.
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Hamish Crawford	Crystal structures unpacked A researcher in the UK has shed new light on which interactions are important in the packing of crystal structures.
Chemistry World November 26, 2010 Amaya Camara-Campos	Enriching the origin of life theory An enantioenrichment of the amino acid valine, which could shed light on the origin of chirality on Earth, has been achieved by scientists in Spain.
Chemistry World March 5, 2014 Andy Extance	Rotaxanes make symmetry history A UK team has stumbled upon an efficient way to separately produce each member of an unusual mirror image pair of chemical systems that has eluded scientists for over four decades.
Chemistry World June 12, 2008 Michael Gross	Light Drives Plastic Motor Chemists in Japan have built a rotary motor driven purely by light shining onto a polymer film.
Chemistry World September 17, 2008 Hayley Birch	Colloids twist like DNA French scientists have used magnetic colloids to make self-assembling, helical structures reminiscent of DNA
Chemistry World November 1, 2009 Hayley Birch	How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists.
Chemistry World June 1, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Bile acid helps form 'twisted ribbon' nano-structures Molecules that can self-assemble into unique nano-sized structures - such as ribbons resembling microscopic twists of pasta - have been made by Chinese scientists.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Victoria Richards	Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed.
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 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.
Chemistry World March 2, 2007 Philip Ball	Giving Life a Hand Why are proteins left-handed and nucleic acids right-handed? Once offered only a few sketchy theories, scientists have found more alternatives for creating homochirality.
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Tom Westgate	Molecular Traffic Spied in Nanoscale Tube Network Chemists in Germany have tracked single molecules diffusing through a porous solid for the first time.
Chemistry World August 16, 2012 Samantha Cheung	A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes US researchers have discovered that a derivative of vitamin B 2 can sort single-walled carbon nanotubes according to their handedness. The discovery could be an important step on the road to being able to simply separate left- and right-handed SWNTs.
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 Victoria Gill	Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer.
Chemistry World September 3, 2010 Lewis Brindley	First steps of water condensation observed The US team conducting the research found that the first two layers - each two molecules thick - form as ice, with subsequent layers forming into liquid droplets.
Chemistry World April 29, 2009 James Urquhart	Huge pores in zeolite molecular sieve Researchers in Spain and Sweden have synthesized and structurally determined a new kind of crystalline molecular sieve with extra large holes and chiral properties.
Chemistry World March 28, 2007 Victoria Gill	New Limits Set on Chirality Researchers have set a new standard in stereochemistry. Measuring Raman optical activity, they have confirmed the spatial arrangement of a molecule with almost impossibly subtle chirality: (R)-[ 2H 1, 2H 2, 2H 3]-neopentane.
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross	A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system.
Chemistry World February 10, 2014 Ian Randall	Polymer puts a new twist on soft robotics Twisted polymer springs capable of turning light energy into mechanical movement have been developed by researchers from the Netherlands and the UK.
Chemistry World November 13, 2015 Kira Welter	First permanently porous liquid created Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalized organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent
Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core.
Chemistry World July 4, 2006 Jon Evans	Colloidal crystals enter period of trial separation The implications of this work could lead to new separation principles and techniques that will have significant impact on chemical separations.
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Katia Moskvitch	Saturn's largest moon home to prebiotic 'soup' Scientists should expand their quest for life in other worlds by searching for any kind of liquid, not just water, say researchers.
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers.
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Hayley Simon	Breakup reaction hints at handedness of nature The breakup of 3-bromocamphor molecules bombarded by polarized electrons has given a tantalizing hint of the origins of biological homochirality -- nature's preference for one mirror image of a molecule over another.
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley	Catalytic Gel Gels are commonplace from lime Jell-o to invigorating minty shower gels. Now, a German-Dutch team has developed an organometallic complex that acts as a novel gelling agent for organic solvents.
Chemistry World March 2006	The Last Retort: Still Baffled by H2O A laboratory in the U.S. has a mission to investigate the chemistry and physics of pure water more deeply than anyone has done before, with the help of a supercomputer called Thunder.
Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate	Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules.