Tag Archives: silicon

First electronic optical fibers with hydrogenated amorphous silicon are developed

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 14, 2021 Comments Off

First electronic optical fibers with hydrogenated amorphous silicon are developed – A new chemical technique for depositing a non-crystalline form of silicon into the long, ultra-thin pores of optical fibers has been developed by an international team of scientists in …

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Boost your battery with seaweed

Posted by David Bradley on September 9, 2020 Comments Off

An extract from brown algae – seaweed – could give rechargeable lithium-ion batteries a boost by allowing silicon nanopowder to be used as a high-capacity alternative to graphite electrodes. The potential improvement is almost an order of magnitude boost, the …

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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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10 chemical picks

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 25, 2020 Comments Off

Researcher lists more than 4,000 components of blood chemistry – After three years of exhaustive analysis led by a University of Alberta researcher, the list of known compounds in human blood has exploded from just a handful to more than …

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Slinn Pickings latest 10

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 22, 2020 Comments Off

Reprogrammed stem cells hit a roadblock – An international study shows that reprogramming cells leads to genomic aberrations. Blocking enzyme cut cancer spread – Scientists at the UK's Institute of Cancer Research have prevented breast cancer spreading to other organs …

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Top ten chemical picks: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 8, 2020 Comments Off

Math may help calculate way to find new drugs for diseases – Using mathematical concepts, Princeton researchers have developed a method of discovering new drugs for a range of diseases by calculating which physical properties of biological molecules may predict …

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