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Chemistry World August 9, 2013 Daniel Johnson	Mystery of jumping crystals solved The riddle of why a certain type of crystal leaps more than 10,000 times its length when exposed to light may have been solved. The crystals' rapid movement is a result of stresses generated in the crystal when light induces a structural change within it.
Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual.
Chemistry World November 4, 2010 Mike Brown	World's smallest chromatography column Single metal-organic framework crystals can be used to separate mixtures of dyes just like a miniature chromatography column, say scientists in the US.
Chemistry World August 25, 2011 Fiona McKenzie	Poking Aspirin with a Sharp Stick Scientists have found a way to go one better than x-ray crystallography to examine pharmaceutical crystals at an even deeper level.
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 September 30, 2010 James Urquhart	Weightlifting crystals Japanese researchers have created a co-crystal that reversibly bends like human muscle when exposed to ultraviolet and visible light.
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'.
Chemistry World July 11, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Crystal-to-crystal transformation Scientists in Canada have generated a new crystalline material that undergoes irreversible light-induced bending.
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Popcorn-like explosion of single crystals explained Chemists have created single crystals of metal coordination complexes that explode violently when exposed to UV light, leaping high into the air.
Chemistry World May 3, 2007 Simon Hadlington	The Many Faces of Platinum Researchers in the U.S. and China have discovered a way to grow multi-faceted nanocrystals of platinum that have much higher catalytic activity than the conventional crystalline forms of the metal.
Chemistry World August 15, 2013 Caryl Richards	First agostic isomers uncovered from two-tone crystals The discovery that two different colored crystals can form from the same molybdenum cation has signalled the first experimental evidence for agostic isomers -- or agostomers -- in organometallic complexes.
Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Nitrenium hugs stabilize positively rare complexes Everyone knows that like charges repel one another. But unusual coordination compounds bearing cationic ligands bound to cationic metals have been prepared by scientists in Israel, opening up fresh opportunities for organic transformations.
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 January 15, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Curvaceous crystals Spanish scientists have shown how elaborately curved crystalline structures, similar to those typically made by living organisms, can grow from simple solutions of metal carbonates.
Chemistry World July 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Propeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off Crystal engineers have finally succeeded in achieving a goal that has eluded chemists for decades by unambiguously synthesizing two-dimensional polymer crystals, confirmed by single-crystal x-ray diffraction.
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 June 7, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Artificial 'superatoms' for a new periodic table Could a new periodic table be on the horizon, populated not by conventional elements but by new 'superatoms' designed in the lab?
Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Akshat Rathi	Molecular cages to end crystallization nightmare X-ray crystallography has shaped modern chemistry. It is a powerful tool for molecular structural analysis. But it suffers from one big drawback: it can only analyze materials that form well-defined crystals. This may now be about to change.
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans	Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels.
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever	Colossal Crystals Discovered in Cave In one of the largest lead and silver mines in the world, workers discovered what researchers are calling the "cathedral" of giant gypsum crystals about 300 meters below ground.
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 February 7, 2014 Emma Stoye	Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one.
Chemistry World September 2, 2009 Nina Notman	Designing 3D DNA crystals US scientists have found that DNA triangles can be designed to self-assemble into three dimensional, macro-sized crystals.
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.
Chemistry World June 11, 2009 Lewis Brindley	'Electronic glue' makes nanocrystals connect American chemists have developed an 'electronic glue' to link nanocrystals together - allowing groups of the crystals to be highly conductive.
Chemistry World March 1, 2009 Nina Notman	Inorganic crystals turned into tubes Inorganic crystals dropped into water can be grown into long 'microtubes' of controlled size and shape, chemists in the UK have discovered.
Chemistry World January 5, 2015 Jennifer Newton	Organic synthons yield hyperbranched crop We offer an image that depicts the first ionic organic nanocrystals to have a sheaf-like structure.
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 September 18, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C.
Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley	Double Vision With Coordination Polymers Calcite crystals have been discovered to have birefringence.
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Laura Howes	Tuning photonic crystals by blending brush polymers Bob Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology in the US, has previously made photonic crystals with brush block copolymers but this precise tuning of the wavelength of reflected light is new.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 James Urquhart	Nanoparticle composites make colorful magnetic crystals Incorporating nanoparticles into single crystal materials can imbue them with new properties, such as color and magnetism, thanks to gel crystallization techniques developed independently by UK and Chinese research groups.
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 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 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.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Irregular layout sharpens light Aperiodic photonic crystal could improve devices that shape, detect and filter light, including communications devices like photodetectors, demultiplexers, which sort wavelengths of light, and channel drop filters, which filter out different wavelengths.
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Andy Extance	Crystal structure closes classic carbocation case German scientists have solved the long-sought crystal structure of an ion at the frontline of a war of interpretation that raged for years.
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.
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Crystal Shows Colossal Expansion A super-stretchy crystal could help to develop improved coatings for satellites facing the extreme temperature variations of space, according to UK scientists.
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 24, 2012 Jon Evans	Can magma crystals predict eruptions? Mineral crystals blasted out from volcanoes can provide a window into the powerful processes going on inside those volcanoes, say UK and German earth scientists.
Chemistry World September 12, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Nanopore Structures Could Tune Drug Crystallisation A recent finding offers a new way to tune the rate of crystallisation of different compounds and the morphology of the crystals that are formed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Global Market for Photonic Crystals Set for High Growth Through 2013 The market segments are applications of light emission, information technology, optical sensing, energy conversion, light energy delivery, and other applications.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes.
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers.
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.
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Chemistry World February 18, 2011 Carol Stanier	Speed dating for pharmaceuticals A simple analysis of hydrogen bond strengths finds the best crystallisation partners for drugs, say UK scientists.
Chemistry World February 3, 2011 Ben Merison	The mystery of the disappearing crystals UK chemists have analysed a fifty year old sample to find out why and say that it's down to impurities. This takes researchers a step closer to understanding why certain pharmaceutical drugs lose their therapeutic effect.
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.