An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Virginia. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures for fullerenes.
As, I was preparing to write this article, and to my delight, I read, that soon in Denmark, there would be a seminar focusing mainly on Al-Anfal, The Final Solution and the Armenian Massacre before and during WWI.
A team of British and American researchers led by J. F. Stoddart have developed a whole new family of mutually interlocked molecules, which they termed "suitanes," and generated a first example.
By Bikash Chatterjee and Warford Reaney Pharmatech Associates, Inc. Manufacturing.Net - September 25, 2006 The recent emphasis on continuous improvement, operational excellence and Process Analytical Technology (PAT) within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries has driven us to evaluate the basic tenets of our approach to quality.
NIST has issued three new reference materials to support researchers studying the properties of commercially important zeolites, a class of materials used in a wide variety of applications, such as in laundry detergents (where they replace pollution-causing phosphates), as catalysts in oil refineries, and as molecular sieves for chemical separations.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a range of unique, shape-changing structures, which can be used as roll-up display screens (such as laptop screens), re-usable packaging, roll-up keyboards and self-erecting, temporary habitats.
By combining very large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with time-resolved data from laser experiments of shock wave propagation through specific metals, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are now able to better understand the evolution of high-strain-rate plasticity.
Richard Larock, a University professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is developing plastics made from corn and soybean oils that will be used to build hog feeders. The feeders could be on the market by the end of next year.
One of the most common bacteria in the Earth, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, influences the mobility and bioavailability of iron and environmental contaminants like lead, cobalt and arsenic. Researchers are looking at how the size of iron oxide nano particles influences the bacteria's ability to breathe. This is the first study by any group that couples environmental microbiology and nano-mineralogy.
Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical properties.