Nov 10, 2011
It is a perennial on almost every chemistry course: the Haber-Bosch process for making ammonia. A potassium-doped iron catalyst is heated to several hundred degrees and high pressure nitrogen and hydrogen gas mixed over it to generate ammonia, which is then fed into fertiliser production. The H-B process very effectively traps and fixes nitrogen from the air, and is the industrial …
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Nov 2, 2011
I recently wrote about how Raman spectroscopy could change the way forensic scientists analyse splashes and stains during a crime scene investigation or a suspect’s clothes and skin. Last year, it was saliva analysis, most recently the research has focused on female bodily fluids associated with the scene of a sexual assault or rape. The work is that of Igor Lednev’s team at …
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Oct 5, 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Daniel Shechtman
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”
I got my tweet out seconds before NobelPrize_org and certainly before the rest of the chemistry blogosphere. Sad or what?
In quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world (see my Alhambra …
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