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Instant insights
Whirlwind tours of exciting research areas of chemical technology.
Instant insight: Colloidals deliver the goods
08 September 2008
Unilever's Krassimir Velikov and Eddie Pelan reveal the design behind innovative, nutritious and tasty foods
Instant insight: The wonder of gold
07 August 2008
Graham J. Hutchings, Mathias Brust and Hubert Schmidbaur introduce the newly discovered allure of gold
Instant insight: Fuel cells get cooler
27 June 2008
Solid oxide fuel cells can be used at lower temperatures thanks to advances in materials and engineering
Instant Insight: Solar energy turns organic
18 June 2008
Hiroshi Imahori and Tomokazu Umeyama explain why carbon nanotubes are promising candidates for organic solar cells.
Instant Insight: Making sense of DNAzymes
01 May 2008
Itamar Willner and colleagues from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, discuss the applications of DNA-based enzymes.
Instant insight: Detection on the nanoscale
23 April 2008
Nicholas Pieczonka and Ricardo Aroca of the University of Windsor in Canada discuss single molecule analysis using surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Instant insight: Organic field-effect transistors
18 March 2008
Marta Mas-Torrent and Concepció Rovira look at how small molecules can be used as processable semiconductors
Instant insight: Sensing NO in single cells
21 February 2008
Xiaoying Ye, Stanislav Rubakhin and Jonathan Sweedler describe fluorescent separation and electrochemical methods for detecting a crucial, but tiny, biomolecule
Instant insight: Watching the burn
23 January 2008
Craig Taatjes of Sandia National Labs, Livermore, US, and colleagues look inside the mysterious chemistry of combustion
Instant insight: Ionic liquids - instantly on site
17 December 2007
Natalia Plechkova and Kenneth Seddon examine how ionic liquids are being applied in the real world.
Instant insight: Holographic data storage
16 November 2007
Avtar Matharu and colleagues from the University of York, UK, explain how, when it comes to data, size matters
Instant insight: Organic nanofiltration
23 October 2007
Ivo Vankelecom of the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, looks at the potential for solvent-resistant filtration - from the lab to the plant.
Instant insight: Science and art in harmony
24 September 2007
Marc Aucouturier and Evelyne Darque-Ceretti illustrate the benefit of a multidisciplinary approach to preserving our cultural heritage.
Instant insight: The shape of things to come
20 August 2007
Paul Midgley, Edmund Ward, Ana Hungria and John Meurig Thomas discuss using nanotomography to take a 3D glimpse at the nanoworld.
Instant insight: Molecular memory
27 July 2007
Nicolas Weibel, Sergio Grunder and Marcel Mayor, University of Basel, Switzerland look at functional molecules in electronic circuits
Instant insight: Polymers in nanobionics
28 June 2007
Gordon Wallace and Geoffrey Spinks of the University of Wollongong, Australia, take a close look at the interface between electronics and biology.
Instant insight: Back in black
24 May 2007
Markus Antonietti, Arne Thomas and Maria Titirici discuss the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - is it a solution to the CO2 problem?
Instant insight: Nanocrystals as sensors
24 April 2007
Rebecca Somers, Moungi Bawendi and Daniel Nocera of MIT, US, explain how to solve a paradox: making quantum dots both bright and sensitive
Instant insight: Sensing at the interface
27 March 2007
Molecular recognition is the key to chemical sensing. Enrico Dalcanale and Laura Pirondini, University of Parma, Italy, explain how to avoid false positives.
Instant insight: Beyond electrostatics
28 February 2007
Frank Caruso and co-workers at the University of Melbourne, Australia, discuss how non-covalent interactions can be used for layer-by-layer surface modification
Instant insight: A sound idea
26 February 2007
Thomas Laurell, Lund University, Sweden, explains how ultrasound can be used to separate and move cells and particles in microfluidic devices.
Instant Insight: Developing diagnostics
15 January 2007
Samuel Sia, of Columbia University, US, outlines the challenges in bringing cheap diagnostic devices to developing countries.
Instant insight: Nanohighway to solar cells
19 December 2006
Hiroshi Imahori discusses electrophoresis as a means to make molecular highways for organic solar cells.
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