Patience, luck, and no small amount of skill are required to grow the perfect crystal for X-ray diffraction. Maximize your chances of getting that elusive crystal
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Tips and Tricks for the Lab: Growing Crystals Part 1
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Hierarchical Zeolites Make It to Refinery
First successful commercial scale manufacture of mesostructured zeolite Y promising as fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst
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Closing the Gap in Spin Calculations for Open Shell Systems
Despite its importance, the theoretical foundations of Spin-DFT are not discussed clearly in the literature and text books
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Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life
Every object in the lab has a specific function. But in Wonderlab, when no one is looking, these objects can live a secret second life
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Guess the Chemist (9)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?
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Lanthanoid Single-Ion Magnets
Polyoxometalate-based mononuclear lanthanoid complexes provide new examples of single-ion magnets
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Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
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Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month
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EuCheMS Lecture Awarded
D. Milstein, Israel, and N. Martin, Spain, have been chosen as the 2012 EuCheMS Lecturers by the EuCheMS Executive Board
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Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property
Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA