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High-temperature Alchemist

Posted by David Bradley on August 2, 2020 Comments Off

Spent the weekend on the coast in scorching temperatures, so posting the latest Alchemist link a little late – The Alchemist Newsletter: July 27, 2020 – New understanding of high-temperature superconductors meshes theory and experiment after twenty years of research …

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Making fluorine reactions stick

Posted by David Bradley on May 10, 2020 Comments Off

Fluorine in organic chemistry is an important topic across the synthetic pharmaceutical, agrochemical and materials areas because switching out hydrogen atoms selectivity for this element allows chemists to tune the reactivity of specific groups within a given molecule. Now, chemists …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 6, 2020 Comments Off

The ‘molecular octopus’: A little brother of ‘Schroedinger’s cat’ – For the first time, the quantum behaviour of molecules consisting of more than 400 atoms was demonstrated by quantum physicists based at the University of Vienna in collaboration with chemists …

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More chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 9, 2020 Comments Off

Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories – Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to determine how the radioactive elements …

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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 3, 2020 Comments Off

Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implications – An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy assessed the net greenhouse gas savings of bioethanol from sugarcane as compared to the use of fossil fuels. New growth inhibitors more effective in …

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10 quick chemical hits: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 23, 2020 Comments Off

Researchers Discover New Way to Design Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts – Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a new strategy for fabricating metal nanoparticles in catalysts that promises to enhance the selectivity and yield for a wide range of structure-sensitive catalytic …

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