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Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

You've Got to Hand It to Tartaric Acid
Tartaric acid can be used as a chiral template to modify a specific surface of a copper catalyst

Why Does Iodine Turn Starch Blue?
The exact structure of the starch-iodine complex has been a mystery

The Digital Future of Organic & Medicinal Chemistry
Influence of computer technology and future vision of an organic/medicinal chemistry lab in the eyes of a Ph.D. student

Behind the Science: Gold Nanostructures in Biomedicine
C. Cobley, ChemNanoMat, talks to Y. Xia about radiolabeled gold nanocages for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of tumors in vivo

To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo? – Part 1
Tattooing from a chemical point of view

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Beer Purity Law
Why was the beer purity law or Reinheitsgebot introduced 500 years ago?

Backbone-Degradable Polymers
Biodegradable polymers made by chemical vapor deposition (CVD)