Features – Page 16
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Experimental 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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George III, indigo and the blue ring test
Can a urine test offer insight into George III's insanity?
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The Mole
Anti-wrinkle potions
The market for skin care products to help combat the signs of ageing is massive, with global sales projected to reach US $69.6 billion in 2010
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Belladonna, broomsticks and brain chemistry
Poisonous plants such as deadly nightshade produce toxic tropane alkaloids. These chemicals have been exploited in magic, murder and the design of a host of useful therapeutic drugs
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CF3SF5 - 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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Early pain-free days
Towards the latter part of 19th century cocaine provided the lead for chemists to develop effective local anaesthetics for dental surgery
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Fuelling the future: solid phase hydrogen storage
The portable and safe storage of hydrogen will be fundamental to the success of fuel cell-powered cars
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I can see clearly now...
Thanks to advances in polymer chemistry contact lenses are now more comfortable and fashionable
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Cocaine - a short trip in time
In the latter half of the 19th century chemists started to investigate the properties of cocaine. Elucidation of its molecular structure followed some 30 years later
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Nanotechnology update
The past 10 years have witnessed myriad R&D programmes in nanotechnology around the world
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Understanding our changing atmosphere
Research by chemists into the chemical processes occurring in the troposphere could help to predict the likely impacts of climate change upon atmospheric conditions
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Fighting skin cancer with prodrugs
Prodrugs - selective chemical agents - are beginning to show potential as a cure for skin cancer
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Who really discovered the Haber process?
Although Fritz Haber's name is now attached to the process for the synthesis of ammonia from its constituent elements by using high pressure, who was responsible for this reaction?
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Dealing with nuclear waste
Nuclear power is a low-carbon technology, but it does come with a catch: it produces waste that emits harmful radiation for many thousands, even millions of years. UK chemists, however, are working to produce materials and technology to deal with this problem.
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Flu drugs - pathway to discovery
If bird flu ever starts to transmit from human to human, with no effective vaccine available our only defence will be the antiviral drugs Relenza and Tamiflu
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Mendeleev - the man and his legacy...
A look at the life and work of Russia's most famous chemist, who died 100 years ago
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The periodic tables of Mendeleev
How Mendeleev corrected the atomic weights of In, Ce and U, and thus constructed the remarkable Periodic Table of 1871
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Drugs for dementia
About 10 per cent of men and women over 65, and nearly half of those over 80, have Alzheimer's disease