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How Green Does Your Nanomaterials Garden Grow?
Professor Geoffrey Ozin discusses the safe and responsible development, production, use, transportation, and disposal of nanoparticles in existing or emerging nanotechnologies.
FIREBALL: powerful mesoscale computational chemistry
Molecular dynamics methods are wedded to tight-binding density functional theory to produce FIREBALL: a powerful computer code which allows for efficient, predictive simulations of the dynamics of mesoscale systems.
Functional Supramolecular Architectures: for Organic Electronics and Nanotechnology
Professor Maurizio Prato reviews the new book, Functional Supramolecular Architectures: for Organic Electronics and Nanotechnology.
Nanoparticles in the War on Chemical Warfare
A nanoparticle-based nerve agent detector is developed by researchers in Korea
MaterialsViews Interviews: Paolo Samorì
Paolo Samori talks about his recent book Functional Supramolecular Architectures and gives his “insider advice” for scientists.
MaterialsViews Interviews: Franco Cacialli
Franco Cacialli talks to MaterialsViews about his research on supramolecular architectures, his recent book, and his coolest discovery.
2011 Albert Einstein World Science Award goes to Professor Geoffrey Ozin
Following on from his selection as the recipient of the 2011 RSC Barrer Award, Professor Geoffrey Ozin has been awarded the 2011 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
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Researchers at the University of Basel have identified a peroxidase enzyme from the roots of the common horseradish plant which acts as a novel catalyst in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP).
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