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Technology Research News July 13, 2005	Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers.
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.
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Chemistry World May 28, 2013 Anthony King	Polymer tied in celtic knots Celtic knots and ancient art have inspired a new way of synthesizing polymers. The slow-motion method of controlling polymer growth produces a single chain that when linked repeatedly, intricately wraps around itself to form a dense structure.
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Chemistry World July 21, 2010 Carol Stanier	Building up graphene nanoribbons By using small molecule precursors, scientists have found a way to precisely build up sought after graphene nanoribbons, and make them in different shapes.
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Chemistry World February 25, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Crystals of polystyrene Chemists in Japan and Italy have created a polymer-based material that has a crystalline structure. The material, which achieves its crystallinity with crosslinks between its polymer chains, is expected to have a high mechanical strength.
Chemistry World May 16, 2014 Tim Wogan	New thermoset plastics simple to recycle Thermosetting polymers that can be easily recycled have been developed by an international team of researchers.
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 October 5, 2006 Victoria Gill	Polymer Chemists Tap the Body's Organs The strained tendons and ligaments that end many sporting careers could be repaired with polymers made from our own digestive chemicals. Researchers have devised a chemical method to make degradable elastomers -- polymers with elastic properties -- using bile acid.
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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.
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Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Taking the Measure of Atomic Friction Scientists in the US and Germany have successfully used an atomic force microscope to determine exactly how much effort is needed to drag a single atom of cobalt across the surface of different metals.
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Chemistry World September 8, 2015 Anthony King	Click chemistry creates precision polymers Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have an efficient strategy that allows them to synthesize a new family of unimolecular, sequence- and stereo-defined polymers using click chemistry.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Composites Reinforced in 3D A method that uses magnetic fields to align tiny structural elements within a polymer matrix has been developed by scientists in Switzerland.
Chemistry World May 27, 2008 Hayley Birch	Nanomembranes get tough A new chemical approach to making strong carbon films less than 5nm thick could help speed their use in molecular sieves and flexible displays, according to researchers in the US.
Chemistry World April 30, 2015 Simon Hadlington	Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework.
Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Alexander Hellemans	Quantum shuttling boost for organic solar cells Organic polymers can use a quantum effect to rapidly shuttle light energy along their chains, even at room temperature.
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain.
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties.
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Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Heated plastic holds proteins One important task for biochips is sorting proteins, but it's tricky business getting protein molecules to be where you want them and stay away from where you don't. A tiny, plastic-coated hot plate allows scientists to trap and release proteins on command.
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Chemistry World March 6, 2014 Emma Stoye	Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer Flat, two-dimensional layers of molecules structured like quasicrystals -- crystals that show order without repeating patterns -- have been made for the first time by scientists in the UK and Japan.
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Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Simon Hadlington	New shape for cross-linked polymers Researchers in the US and France believe they have found a new way to impart malleability into cross-linked polymers containing multiple double bonds.
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Chemistry World October 27, 2010 Laura Howes	Single molecule magnets line up Italian researchers claim that they've bound a single molecule magnet to a gold surface, whilst retaining the magnet's properties.
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