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In this issue
Features
Hoisting the solar sail
Flying through space by catching sunlight on ultra-thin sails could revolutionise space travel - and the idea could soon take off, says Ned Stafford
Temozolomide - birth of a blockbuster
The history of anticancer drug temozolomide can be traced back over 30 years - and it all started with some novel nitrogen chemistry, says Clare Sansom
Spin-outs: business built on chemistry
Graham Richards, former head of chemistry at the University of Oxford, shares some of the lessons learned from spinning out companies based on good novel chemistry
Spin-outs: protecting your assets
Patents are crucial for any spin-out to thrive, say patent attornies Bob Pidgeon and Jennifer Delaney
Armageddon in slow motion
Nobel peace prize winner and doctor Eric Chivian believes environmental change poses a serious threat to human health. Maria Burke talks to him
Opinions
Editorial: Out and about
Chemistry World staff hard at work attending and reporting on as many events and conferences as humanly possible
Column: In the pipeline
Derek Lowe wonders where we'd be without the formulation chemists
Column: Totally Synthetic
Cochleamycin A
Column: The crucible
Today polyhedra speak to chemists of fullerenes and other cage molecules. But they once had a very different meaning, says Philip Ball
Column: Undercover academic
School's out
UK science funding
Adam Afriyie, UK shadow science minister, would like to see more investment in training the next generation of scientists and is pioneering a science literacy scheme for MPs
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The Commercial Chemist
03 July 2009
Chemistry World gets down to business with our weekly round-up of money and molecules
Virtual conference quandary for researchers
03 July 2009
Concern that recording and live streaming of conference presentations could jeopardise later journal publications
Urine turned into hydrogen fuel
02 July 2009
Whizz electrocatalyst frees the hydrogen from 'liquid gold'
Catalysing the fuels of the future
02 July 2009
Virent's biopetroleum catalysis system wins US green chemistry award
Probing protein aggregation
02 July 2009
NMR used to follow Alzheimer's-linked tau protein as it tangles
Tag and modify proteins
02 July 2009
A Nobel Prize-winning reaction for making carbon-carbon double bonds can be applied to proteins
Chemical security efforts spread
01 July 2009
Industry cautions over EU and US efforts to prevent chemical facilities being targeted by terrorist
Climate change roadmaps announced
30 June 2009
The US and UK lay out plans to combat climate change
Size matters to stem cells
30 June 2009
Nanosurface topography can be more important than chemistry
Going green with white biotech
29 June 2009
Industrial biotech's advance into the chemicals sector could be boosted by green practices and policies
DNA-in-the-box
29 June 2009
Scientists have made a container from DNA that could deliver drugs
Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections
28 June 2009
Therapeutic peptides that can cross the blood-brain barrier have been designed
STFC cuts funds to key facilities
26 June 2009
ISIS cut to just 120 days of operation per year as budget cuts bite
White phosphorus tamed
26 June 2009
Highly reactive element becomes oxygen-insensitive when caged
Brewing a drug delivery platform
26 June 2009
A tea compound has been used to prepare a drug-releasing film with anticancer properties
Huntsman saga draws to close
25 June 2009
US chemicals firm wins legal battle with the banks
Slow release pesticide hits resistant bugs
25 June 2009
Insecticide-resistant bugs hit with double-action crop protection capsules
Tropic wonder
25 June 2009
The solution to keeping the atmosphere clean could lie deep in the heart of the rainforest
Smallest acid droplet formed
23 June 2009
Single molecules of HCl will fully dissociate in just four molecules of water
EPA halts its chemical review effort
23 June 2009
Industry groups urge Obama administration to continue progress made under EPA's ChAMP regulations
