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Customer Services News and analysis ● Sample Content Virtual conference quandary for Slow release pesticide hits resistant ● Online Access researchers bugs ● Copyright & Permissions 03 July 2009 25 June 2009 Related Links Concern that recording and live streaming of Insecticide-resistant bugs hit with double- Advertisements ● Highlights in Chemical Science conference presentations could jeopardise action crop protection capsules ● Highlights in Chemical later journal publications Technology BASF to cut up to 3700 more jobs Branded drugs' competition-free days 07 July 2009 ● Highlights in Chemical Biology numbered German chemicals giant reveals plans to cut ● CW: China 10 July 2009 jobs and plants following its acquisition of Ciba Tools EU and US authorities look to clamp down Email this to a friend on pharma's deals to delay generic drugs Catalysing the fuels of the future Add to del.icio.us 02 July 2009 Digg this story ACS compress print journals to favour Virent's biopetroleum catalysis system wins US Share on Facebook online green chemistry award Seed Newsvine 22 June 2009 Exxon and Venter to create fuel of the Reddit this American Chemical Society to fit two pages future Twitter this on one for print versions of its journals to save money, space and trees 15 July 2009 US oil giant ExxonMobil is investing millions in Going green with white biotech developing biofuels from photosynthetic algae 29 June 2009 Industrial biotech's advance into the Business roundup chemicals sector could be boosted by green Industry news, August 2009 practices and policies In the papers... STFC cuts funds to key facilities Short items

26 June 2009 Market Place ISIS cut to just 120 days of operation per New products, August 2009 year as budget cuts bite News in brief Degrees of freedom Short items, August 2009 21 July 2009 Note book Climate change is high on the agenda and Short items, August 2009 the burden lies heavily on scientists to find new solutions, but do researchers have the support they need?

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US resumes contentious FutureGen clean coal initiative 17 June 2009 Government to put over $1 billion towards reinstated clean energy project shelved under previous administration

EPA halts its chemical review effort 23 June 2009 Industry groups urge Obama administration to continue progress made under EPA's ChAMP regulations

Chemical science

Smallest acid droplet formed DNA gets nanotubes sorted out 23 June 2009 08 July 2009 Single molecules of HCl will fully dissociate Short DNA strings separate carbon nanotubes in just four molecules of water according to their structure

Cutting graphene to ribbons The science of longer lasting lager 19 June 2009 09 July 2009 Nickel nanoparticles slice up single-layer Chemists have designed a polymer that can graphene sheets to make useful nanoribbons improve the shelf life of drinks, such as beer

Urine turned into hydrogen fuel Click chemistry on a chip 02 July 2009 08 July 2009 Whizz electrocatalyst frees the hydrogen Over 1000 click chemistry reactions performed from 'liquid gold' at once on a microchip

White phosphorus tamed Tropic wonder 26 June 2009 25 June 2009 Highly reactive element becomes oxygen- The solution to keeping the atmosphere clean insensitive when caged could lie deep in the heart of the rainforest

New solution for dye wastewater Brewing a drug delivery platform pollution 26 June 2009 08 July 2009 A tea compound has been used to prepare a Novel recyclable metal oxide filter removes drug-releasing film with anticancer properties harmful dyes from wastewater Instant insight: True blue flowers

Chemical weapons cleanup 14 July 2009 08 July 2009 What makes a purple pigment blue? The Researchers have used a hydrogen peroxide- answer could lead to the elusive blue rose based microemulsion system to safely says Kumi Yoshida decontaminate chemical warfare agents

Chinese news supplement

Johnson & Johnson involved in Chinese chemical industry set to revive chemical ingredient litigation In the first five months of 2009, China's Johnson & Johnson has been involved in petrochemical industry's profit dropped by series of legal battles in China 31.5 per cent to 153.2 billion yuan (US$22.5 billion) China accelerates carbon capture trials The Huaneng Group is building a 100,000- Science Index a target for criticism in tonne post-combustion carbon capture China (PCC) facility in one of its power plants in An annual report publicises the names of Shanghai journals included in the Science Citation Index, their impact factors, and the citations among Policy boosts not enough for biotech these journals China's biotech field has received a lukewarm response from the industry, but Coalbed methane efforts dampened by signs of progress are beginning to appear divisional barriers

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The world's largest coalbed methane power ChemChina has sights on Dow business station started in China in July, but the The country's largest agrochemical firm and promising sector is plagued by legal and leading fine chemical maker, has its eye on technical barriers a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, the largest US chemical company China News in brief Short items Disciplining movement questions science budget rules Science and technology organisations have been ranked as key targets for inspection by the finance ministry

Features

A radical old age One giant leap As we expand our knowledge of the NASA's Apollo missions answered many molecular mechanisms of ageing, could we questions about the Moon - and as NASA soon see a jump in 'healthspan'? Emma unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will Davies talks to the scientists tackling age- again play a prominent role, says Richard related disease Corfield

A vital blow for chemistry Pill-popping pets Chemistry may have become an increasingly Over the past decade there has been a high tech discipline, but it still relies on dramatic increase in the number of drugs glassware - and the age-old skill of prescribed to pets. What are the factors glassblowing - says Simon Hadlington behind this trend, asks Elisabeth Jeffries

Opinion

Building on a science base Column: The crucible Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat science Zinc nanoparticles appear to have the ability spokesman, underlines the importance of to make odorants smell stronger and could a funding, careers, and evidence-based give a valuable insight into how olfaction government policy for the future of UK works, says Philip Ball science Column: Totally Synthetic Column: In the pipeline Lyconadin A Derek Lowe considers what makes a good looking drug molecule - and how beauty is Column: Undercover academic in the eye of the beholder Let's get together

Editorial: Leading the way Every year at the beginning of the summer, the ISI journal impact factors (IFs) are announced

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Managing change: The mother of Careers clinic: Great leap forward invention Is it worth doing an MBA to help with the Many fear redundancy but it helped David move into management? Caroline Tolond Cole to get his Environmental Innovations weighs up the pros and cons business off the ground, reports Helen Carmichael

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Letters Classic kit: Thiele tube http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2009/August/index.asp (3 of 4) [10/11/2552 10:27:11] Chemistry World August 2009

Chemistry World Letters, August 2009 Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis Student Book Reviews Chemistry World Student Book Reviews, Flashback August 2009 20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

The last retort: Car catastrophe Puzzles My boyfriend continues to question why his Puzzles, August 2009 car battery has chosen today (at -2°C) to fail Chemistry through the lens The modern Stonehenge

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