News & analysis – Page 50

  • The UK team
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    UK Olympiad team excels in Korea

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    All four students in the team representing the UK at the finals of the 38th International Chemistry Olympiad have returned as medallists from the competition

  • An astronaut in space
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    Smart materials self-repair

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Researchers in Germany and Portugal, have devised a new gel-like coating for metals and alloys that not only protects the surface but repairs any cracks or holes that appear in the coating itself

  • Students in graduation robes
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    MChem makes its mark

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    In response to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, a group of academics and industrialists, led by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), has produced a set of outcomes - 'benchmarks' - that define the expectations of BSc(hons)