Iron nanoparticles with an iron oxide shell resist oxidation and maintain magnetic properties needed for biomedical applications

Stable Iron Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents

EU Innovation Growth Slowing
According to Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011 Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Finland are EU’s innovation leader

Bert Meijer To Give TCR Lecture
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, will give The Chemical Record Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan

Mapping Hidden Nanostructures
New method to map nanostructures within materials may lead to biological imaging of the internal organization of cells

Solar Energy Strategic Agreement
DuPont and Yingli Green Energy enter a $100 million strategic agreement

More Mercury In Fish
Connection between increasing pH in lake waters and bioavailability of mercury proposed

What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist?
Roald Hoffmann discusses the purpose of the Nobel Prizes and why areas like biochemistry should be recognized

Largest Database of Self-classified Substances
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launches the 'Classification and Labelling Inventory' of chemicals on the EU market

Efficient Apoptosis Inducer
(–)-7S-OH-lentiginosine has been efficiently synthesized and is an apoptosis inducer that has low cytotoxicity toward healthy cells

More Polypropylene For China
ZTHC Ltd., a Sinopec and China Coal Group joint venture, selects INEOS Technologies’ Innovene PP process for their new project in China