Editors recommend chemistry and science related books fun to read during this summer
Summer Reading 2014
Importance of Mass Spectrometry for Newborn Screening
Professor G. la Marca speaks about the importance of newborn screening and why it is more than a useful biochemical test
Guess the Mineral (3)
Guess the name of a mineral with the help of an image and some tips
Size and Shape Matter
Special nanoparticle structures measured by light scattering
Antibody-Free Detection
Graphene oxide photoluminescence can be modulated to allow detection of neurotransmitters
Chemical Poems: Tin
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table
Porous Silicon Reveals Fingerprints
The electrochemiluminescence of porous silicon can be used to visualize latent fingerprints, and to detect TNT in them
Drug Design with Fluorine NMR
A correlation between 19F NMR chemical shifts and intermolecular interactions gives guidelines for interactions with receptors
Contamination of Seafood with Arsenolipids
RP-HPLC-ICP-MS in combination with ESI-MS reveals that Arsenolipids are the major class of Arsenic in canned cod liver
Dorothy Hodgkin – Pioneer of the Study of Biomolecules by XRay Crystallography
1964 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for "the determination of the structures of important biochemical substances by means of the X-ray technique"