Chemists clean ceramics and coat enzymes in plastic
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Chemist Andrew Barron developed a non-toxic ceramics processing technique, by breaking up aluminum-oxide particles to make them soluble in water. Jonathan Dordick et al incorporated enzymes into plastics to make them self-cleaning. A mobile lab travels to high-school chemistry classes.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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Chemists self-assemble in southern California
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Research reports presented at the 1995 American Chemical Society meeting covered a new class of polymers that self-assemble into 100-layer films, new compounds called polyoxometalates that bleach wood pulp without harming the environment and ancient DNA found in rock paintings.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Pacific Basin gathering in Hawaii fills with chemists
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One report at the Pacific Rim chemical meeting discussed a project to engineer a tobacco plant to express an insect-killing virus. Another paper described the development of square chiral molecules that may have applications in drug synthesis.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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