Chemistry News - April 2008 Archives
 | Researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products. ...> Full Article |
 | >Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies. ...> Full Article |
 | UK researchers hope to convert ryegrass into ethanol ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers report on the energy-transferring functions within the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic light-harvesting protein, a pigment-protein complex in green sulfur bacteria that serves as a model system because it consists of only seven well-characterized pigment molecules ...> Full Article |
Dutch chemist has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions
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 | A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels ...> Full Article |
Chemical engineering professor is exploring a way to increase battery life with an environmentally friendly alternative
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 | Simulation shows how defect-engineered zirconia repairs radiation-induced damage ...> Full Article |
 | Engineers using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm waste treatment. Anaerobic digesters employ reactors that use bacteria to break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen. ...> Full Article |
Researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide
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Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component?
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 | New research demonstrates that novel probe technology based on flexible membranes can replace conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative material characterization and single molecule mechanics measurements. ...> Full Article |
Researchers succeeded for the first time in producing an insulator-metal transition in an oxide of a main group element
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 | Researchers to produce algal oil feedstock as biofuels for conversion to military jet fuel ...> Full Article |
 | Lithium based material may be useful in hydrogen storage ...> Full Article |
China turning to the technologies that could manufacture plastics with plant fiber and starch
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 | Research by two scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers make breakthrough in creating gasoline from plant matter, with almost no carbon footprint ...> Full Article |
Researchers have crafted the world's tiniest alcohol still to concentrate scant amounts of micromolecules for easier detection
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Computer model provides a new approach to simulating and observing membrane dynamics at a relatively large scale - hundreds of nanometers.
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 | An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow's stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel ...> Full Article |
 | New genre of superheavy chemical elements sought for more than three decades ...> Full Article |
Scientists evaluate the unintended consequences of ethanol production on water quality
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Impact of Biofuels on Biodiversity Explored
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One of the earliest general anaesthetics to be used by the medical profession, chloroform, has shed light on a mystery that's puzzled doctors for more than 150 years - how such anaesthetics actually work
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 | Lab able to find contaminants at one part in a trillion ...> Full Article |
Flameless turbo power
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As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won't cramp their pocketbooks.
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Fish can recognize a face based on UV pattern alone
Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly
'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies
Scientists locate apparent hydrothermal vents off Antarctica
Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
Predicting the fate of stem cells
Artificial foot recycles energy for easier walking
New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing
What drives our genes? Researchers map the first complete human epigenome
Juggling enhances connections in the brain
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less
Chemicals that eased one environmental problem may worsen another
Helping hydrogen: Student inventor tackles challenge of hydrogen storage
More, better biodiesel
Orange peels, newspapers may lead to cheaper, cleaner ethanol fuel
Researchers envision high-tech applications for 'multiferroic' crystals
Chemists create synthetic 'gene-like' crystals for carbon dioxide capture