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Chemistry World
May 16, 2006
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Switching Off Polymerisation in the Dark With summer in full swing, the world of polymer science is about to get a boost following news that sunlight can kick-start living polymerisation reactions. The twist is that the reaction stops in the dark. |
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December 8, 2014
Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Spinach chlorophyll activates polymer production line Inspired by nature, scientists in Australia have united light and chlorophyll to generate a range of polymers that have biomedical applications. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2012
Laura Howes |
Shining new light on the Ullmann reaction Ullmann C -- N coupling -- a copper mediated carbon -- nitrogen coupling reaction used to create arylamines -- is one of the most widely used reactions in the pharmaceutical industry. |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2009
Manisha Lalloo |
Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings |
Chemistry World
November 19, 2014
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A greener recipe for copper nanowires In an ingenious application of food chemistry more commonly associated with the searing of steak or baking of bread, scientists in Singapore have developed a green synthesis for well-defined copper nano wires. |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2015
Anisha Ratan |
Phone camera checks water for arsenic UK scientists have developed a mobile phone-based system to help people avoid drinking water contaminated with arsenic. |
Chemistry World
July 2, 2014
Victoria Richards |
Molecular brass Brass has been known to man since prehistoric times; now scientists in Germany have isolated the first molecular example of the copper -- zinc alloy. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2011
Laura Howes |
Cyclodextrin Dimer Becomes Synthetic Polymerase Chemists have made an artificial polymerase that doesn't need a metal catalyst or organic solvents and is more efficient than current bioinspired approaches. |
Chemistry World
March 29, 2012
Tegan Thomas |
Hair and polymers click In the search for new haircare products, scientists in the UK have developed a new method to chemically modify hair with polymers. |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Alcoholic drinks perfect solvents for polymerization International researchers have gone through the contents of their liquor cabinets to see if alcoholic drinks make good solvents for single-electron transfer living radical polymerization. And the answer is an unequivocal yes. |
