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Chemistry World January 17, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rainbow Hued Graphene Oxide Repels Water Scientists in China have used a laser to carve out a pattern of ridges and valleys on layered graphene oxide to mimic two of nature's tricks in one go - iridescence and superhydrophobicity.
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Chemistry World May 2, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Ionic Liquids' Etch-A-Sketch Surprise UK chemists have discovered how to draw and erase pictures on the surfaces of ionic liquids.
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.
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 Cara E Sutton	'Invisible gates' trap water droplets Researchers in Japan have created a novel superhydrophobic hybrid surface that can separate water droplets sliding down it based on nothing more than their size.
Chemistry World November 4, 2015 Andy Extance	Trampolining droplets raise hopes for ice-shedding surfaces With fellow team members at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Tom Schutzius has worked out what was causing this previously-unknown 'trampolining'.
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Chemistry World June 28, 2012 Laura Howes	Hydrophobic display writes on water Scientists in Finland and the UK have created a surface with tunable superhydrophobicity and used it to create a display that can be written on with water.
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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.
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Chemistry World September 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Magnetic Dreams Disputed Magnetochemists are disputing the breakthrough discovery of a metal-organic material which its inventors claimed to be magnetic at room temperature and stable in air.
Chemistry World March 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	The Hole Story UK chemists are trying to create the first liquids made from holes. The strange fluids could change the way chemical plants operate, they claim.
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Chemistry World October 26, 2010	Waterproof Cotton That Can go Through the Wash Chinese researchers have made cotton fabric that is completely impervious to water and can be put through the laundry without losing its superhydrophobic properties, overcoming a key obstacle in the commercialisation of these highly waterproof materials.
Chemistry World October 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Surface Chemistry Wins Nobel Prize The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Gerhard Ertl for his work understanding the effect of gas molecules on solid surfaces of metals.
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Home Toys February 2005 Terry Coffey	Choosing a Front Projection Screen Today's projection screens are much more sophisticated than the old bedsheet on a clunky tripod your dad used to drag out of the closet to show Super-8 home movies. Here are a few choices you may face. Permanent vs. portable?... Surface mounted or recessed?... etc.
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