The lasting sweet taste of some fruits could be due to strong binding interaction with the tongue’s epithelial cells rather than its taste pores

Testing Taste

Testing Taste
The lasting sweet taste of some fruits could be due to strong binding interaction with the tongue’s epithelial cells rather than its taste pores

Food Contamination From Packaging
Migration of contaminates from plastic packaging depends on storage temperature and lipophilic nature of the packaged food

Mess-ter Comic – ROP is Easy!
A comic series by Sophie Lin: In part 3 she depicts how chemistry can sometimes surprise you

Make the Switch
Acid/base and anion exchange used to reversibly transition a urea-based [2]rotaxane between solution and gel states

CO2 Capture
Canadian researchers provide deeper insights into CO2 capture, "seeing" the exact sites where CO2 is held in capture material

Alcohol Most Harmful Drug
Study reveals that, overall, alcohol is the most harmful drug with heroin and crack cocaine in second and third places

Natural Flavorings
Heating ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and L-cysteine in solution at different pH results in formation of a complex mixture of aroma volatiles

Smoke Detection Improved
2,5-Dimethylfuran can be used to monitor environmental tobacco smoke levels and detect second-hand smoke

Quality Of Society Journals
Quality of publishing of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals