May 28, 2011
Posted at 11:00 am by David Bradley
This week’s happenings on The Alchemist – This week, The Alchemist is looking to the sun for record-breaking power and sniffing the air to catch a whiff of blackcurrant. Testing times ahead for heavy metal in the pharmaceutical industry we learn, and logical molecules come to the for in potential biomedical and sensor applications. In child health, C&EN reports on fire retardants in baby products. And, finally, everyone's favorite gray-haired video chemist, Martyn Poliakoff, …
May 27, 2011
Posted at 10:00 am by David Bradley
Weighing up green credentials – Distillation in the USA consumes the same amount of energy as all electricity used in Switzerland. Also, to produce enough wool to replace the output of a 500 ktpa polymer plant for insulation you’d need enough land for the sheep to cover the whole of The Netherlands…
May 24, 2011
Posted at 5:00 pm by David Bradley
Is the “nano” label just marketing buzz and PR puff? You might think so given the huge number of products and press releases that exist where this little prefix, from the Greek meaning dwarf, is used instead of a more everyday description. Particles become far more interesting to consumers and grant-awarding peers when they become nanoparticles. Atomic clusters are so 1970s, but nanoclusters? Now, you’re talking. And, not to ignore that tubular field of single-walled …
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