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Chemistry News

Protecting Sulfate Groups During the Building of a Molecule

AZoM Puts The Materials World in The Palm of Your Hand with The New iPhone App AZoM.com is pleased to announce the launch of the AZoM.com ‘App’ for the Apple iPhone™ Available for free download by searching for “AZoM” or “Materials” through the iTunes App Store. Full Story

Insect Wings Could Influenece Self-Cleaning Superhydrophobic Materials

Bioleaching Used to Remove Iron from Mining Effluent

Photosynthesis May be the Way to Produce Clean, Sustainable Hydrogen In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles. Full Story

New Understanding of Ionic Liquids

Catalyst Converts Metane to Methanol Creating More Viable Fuel

Breakthrough Leads to Environmentally Friendly Production for Chemicals and Fuels

Bose-Einstein Condensates of Strontium Atoms Created for the First Time Two independent teams have, for the first time, created Bose-Einstein condensates of strontium atoms. The ability to cool strontium to very low temperatures and control its motion could lead to increasingly precise clocks and may advance our progress toward quantum computers and novel experiments in ultracold chemistry. Full Story

Sigma Aldrich to Host Molecular Self Assembly Webcast

Quantachrome Director to Chair Sessions at AIChE Meeting

University of Michigan Researcher Wins BASF Catalysis Award Scientists are not usually known by their nicknames. Melanie Sanford, Professor at the University of Michigan, is an exception to that rule: Her commitment to new catalytic reactions for cleaner systems and greener processes in chemistry and her new approaches to molecule-building through breaking the normally unreactive, very strong carbon–hydrogen (CH) bond has earned the 34 year-old chemist the title “bond-breaker” in the science press. Full Story

Dow Corning Acquire Chemical Grade Silicon Manufacturing Assets Dow Corning Corporation has acquired two chemical grade silicon manufacturing assets from Globe Specialty Metals, in an acquisition valued at approximately $175 million (USD). Full Story

Link between Catalyst Particles and Chemical Reactions Demonstrated University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. Full Story

Alfa Aesar Publishes Pharamaceutical Services Brochure Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Matthey Company, has published a new “Discovery to Market” Pharmaceutical Services brochure that outlines services from Lab to Bulk API production provided by Alfa Aesar and Johnson Matthey Pharmaceutical Services. Full Story

Charged, Self-Assembling Molecules Used to Make Patchy Particles

BASF to Reduce the Use of Refrigerant Chemicals

Chemical Weapons Disposal Factory Starts Using Mercury Capture Equipment

Unusual Metals Could Form the Basis of Cancer Treating Drugs Drugs made using unusual metals could form an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, including cancerous cells that have developed immunity to other drugs, according to research at the University of Warwick and the University of Leeds. Full Story

Fischer-Tropsch Microchannel Reactor Wins Best Innovation Award