Chemistry

Mystery Around Dancing Atoms Uncovered

In developing a model to explain the motion of atoms in a magnetic field, scientists have overcome a decades-old obstacle to understanding a key component of magnetic resonance. The new understanding may eventually lead to better control of magnetic reson ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:12pm

New Polymer Coatings Bring Self-Healing Cracks A Step Closer

Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at the University of Illinois.  The new coatings are ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Our Title Will Not Do Justice To How An Impossible Chain Reaction Turned Out To Be Possible

People said it couldn't be done, but researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh demonstrated a molecular chain reaction on a metal surface- a single electr ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2008 - 8:07pm

Informex Invites Young Chemists To Attend InformexUSA

Informex today announced that it will invite young chemists to attend the upcoming InformexUSA exhibition in San Francisco free of charge. The invitation opens the door for chemists and chemical engineers 25 and under to learn more about the chemical tech ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 12 2008 - 11:38pm

Crowds, Solubility And The Future Of Organic Chemistry

This week I participated in a Social Media Day at NIST. During my talk I provided an overview of our current work in using Web2.0 tools for doing Open Notebook Science in fields related to chemical synthesis and drug discovery. During my talks I generally ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Dec 20 2012 - 11:47am

Crowds, Solubility And The Future Of Organic Chemistry

This week I participated in a Social Media Day at NIST. During my talk I provided an overview of our current work in using Web2.0 tools for doing Open Notebook Science in fields related to chemical synthesis and drug discovery. ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Dec 16 2008 - 12:47am

Chemistry, Drugs, and Rock-and-Roll: 2008 has 2 winners

Chemistry is wonderful. Chemistry now has to play more than ever an interdisciplinary role for new visions. Here are two wonderful studies that I caught singing to me in 2008. Both contain elegant science that promises sheer greatness. Each rocks in a dif ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Dec 16 2008 - 4:56am

What element would you want for Christmas?

I just saw on Discover.com a blog post that almost made me wish I was teaching Chemistry again..... almost.  It's about some scientists who have been making a Periodic Table of Videos- a very cool idea that could actually make the periodic table inter ...

Blog Post - Mrs. H. - Dec 15 2008 - 7:35pm

Target – Melamine!

You may remember the melamine scandal where in September this year over a thousand babies were made ill and four died as a result of producers putting melamine, or worse, melamine scrap  into milk to increase its apparent protein content as determined by ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Dec 26 2008 - 1:31pm

Self Assembling Nanotubes Get Inspiration From DNA

The future of the nanotechnology field depends on our ability to reliably and reproducibly assemble nanoparticles into 3D structures we can use to develop new technologies. According to Hao Yan and Yan Liu at Arizona State University, the greatest challeng ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2009 - 7:23pm