http://www.azom.com/materials-news.asp?catid=20 The Latest Chemistry News from AZoM - The A to Z of Materials en Copyright 2001-2008, AZoM.com Pty Ltd Sulfate groups are crucial building blocks for many molecules but are difficult to handle. Dutch researcher Martijn Huibers has discovered how sulfate groups can be protected during the construction o... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19763 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. The phone and ... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19727 Researchers in Australia and the UK are flying the idea that insect wings could act as a model for making self-cleaning, frictionless, and superhydrophobic materials. They discuss the latest developme... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19703 Pauliina Nurmi M.Sc.(Tech.) completed her doctorate at the Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), a study of microbiological methods for oxidising and re... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19701 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-... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19680 Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19668 It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19666 The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19653 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 increa... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19649 Sigma-Aldrich (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced it will host a technical webcast that examines Molecular Self-Assembly (MSA) technology for nanoscale patterning and for biochip arrays useful in high throughput... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19642 Quantachrome Instruments' Director of Applied Science, Dr Matthias Thommes, will co-chair two sessions at this weeks meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the Gaylord Pryl... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19638 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 syste... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19631 Dow Corning Corporation has acquired two chemical grade silicon manufacturing assets from Globe Specialty Metals, in an acquisition valued at approximately $175 million (USD). Dow Corning purchased... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19626 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.... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19592 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 John... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19406 Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules that ma... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19392 BASF Corporation has agreed, under a Clean Air Act settlement filed today in federal court in Beaumont, Texas, to reduce the use of refrigerant chemicals that destroy the earth's stratospheric ozone l... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19390 Workers at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) today began using a new $33 million filtering system designed to safely capture mercury from furnace exhaust gas streams generated while ... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19384 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 ... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19383 The Fischer-Tropsch (FT) microchannel reactor, developed by Velocys Inc, a subsidiary of the Oxford Catalysts Group, has been named as winner in the Best Innovation by an SME category of the 2009 ICIS... http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=19382