All Feature articles – Page 26
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FeatureSupercritical processing
Chemists at the University of Nottingham use supercritical fluids to process polymers for drug delivery systems and for tissue engineering.
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FeatureBetter than antibiotics?
Chemicals that make bacteria lose their hair could be a new weapon in the fight against infections, and at the same time help to overcome the problem of antibiotic resistance
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FeatureLibrium and Valium - anxious times
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leo Sternbach, discoverer of the anti-anxiety drugs Librium and Valium
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FeatureDeadly things come in small packages
Painstaking work by chemists to characterise deadly alkaloids exuded in the skin of some brightly coloured poison arrow frogs has offered leads for new and useful pharmaceuticals
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FeatureThe power of NMR: in two and three dimensions
Over the past 30 years chemists have developed NMR experiments in two and three dimensions that enable them to solve the structure of complex organic compounds
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FeatureAntimony revisited
The intriguing chemistry of antimony, one of the earliest elements to be discovered
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FeatureNanomedicine arrives
Nanoscale chemical entities target the building blocks of biology with medicinal consequences
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FeatureThe Power of NMR: The Beginnings
Originally a curiosity of the quantum world, NMR is now an essential tool for chemists, biochemists and clinicians
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FeatureE-learning in practice
Making the most of the Internet and ICT to support teaching and learning in science
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FeatureMultiple-choice tests - are they fit for purpose?
Of what value are multiple-choice tests in the new GCSE Science specifications?
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FeatureCambridge Pre-U chemistry
The 'Cambridge Pre-U' qualifications - the latest alternatives to A-levels
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FeatureFighting cancer - the early years
Research and development of nitrogen mustards 60 years ago sets the scene for new era in the treatment of cancer
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FeaturePhotochromism in view
A context-based chemistry practical highlighting the importance of chemical kinetics and spectroscopy in commercial photochromic dyes
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FeatureFrom waxes to riches
Supercritical carbon dioxide can be used to remove valuable chemicals, including waxes, from plants, the most widely available and cheap source of biomass in the world
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FeatureGeorge III, indigo and the blue ring test
Can a urine test offer insight into George III's insanity?
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FeatureExperimental nanoscience for undergraduates
The recent development of low cost, user-friendly scanning tunnelling microscopes has brought nanoscience experiments into undergraduate laboratories
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FeatureGood lab practice
Students who want to work as analytical chemists in industry need to be introduced to the basic regulatory requirements of 'good laboratory practice'
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FeatureCF3SF5 - a 'super' greenhouse gas
Trifluoromethyl sulfur pentafluoride - a byproduct of the electronics industry - has been named a 'super' greenhouse gas by physical chemists
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FeatureBiosensors based on DNA
Chemists are developing new medical and environmental sensors based on DNA sequences which have been selected to bind certain targets such as cancer markers in blood