Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, think tank will strategize on environmentally sound policies on oil, gas, coal
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Green Carbon Center
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Toxic Color Test
A new lab-on-a-chip sensor array – little bigger than a business card can – detect toxic industrial chemicals at low cost and low concentrations
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Nagoya Silver Medal Special Issue
The 11 Silver Medal winners from 1999 to 2009 represent the ‘crème de la crème’ of modern Japanese organic chemistry
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See Hidden Fingerprints
Fingerprints that have been washed off metal surfaces can now be retrieved
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New EuCheMS President
The EuCheMS elected Ulrich Schubert, Vienna University of Technology, member of the Austrian chemical society, as their new president
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Mass Production of Spider Silk
Native-sized spider silk protein successfully expressed for the first time in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli
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Silver-Free Protocol
New route to gold-based catalyst removes need for moisture and light sensitive silver salts
![Atmospheric Dioxane Degradation](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12bafd639b2.jpg)
Atmospheric Dioxane Degradation
Mechanism of the radical-initiated oxidation of 1,3-dioxane helps explain the role of ethers in the atmosphere
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Soaking Up Synthesis
A 21-step synthesis of (−)-nakadomarin A from the simple starting material D-pyroglutamic acid has been achieved
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Angewandte Author Profiles
Helmut Werner, Leroy Cronin, Otto Wolfbeis, and Takuzo Aida, are interviewed this month