Chemistry

Scissoring The Lipids May Lead To Tuberculosis Vaccine

A new strategy enables molecules to be disconnected essentially anywhere, even remote from functionality.   The organic synthesis strategy, developed by Professor Varinder Aggarwal and Dr Ramesh Rasappan in the School of Chemistry, involves a new method f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 12:31pm

Weekend Science: Phthalates In French Wines May Be Contaminating You

Alcohol, including red wine which has acquired its own modern health food mythology, may be damaging to your health in a way you hadn't thought about before. It isn't just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it's the packaging. Ph ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2014 - 10:53am

Cling Wrap For Burn Wounds: Biomaterial Nanosheets Coat Tricky Burns, Blocks Out Infection

For burn victims, guarding wounds against infection is critical but wrapping wound dressings around fingers and toes can be tricky. Scientists have reporting the development of novel, ultrathin coatings- nanosheets- that can cling to the body's most ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2014 - 8:47am

Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Useful Chemicals Using Foam

A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has vastly different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, a new study shows. The research suggests that copper foams could provide a new way of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 9:33am

Shape-Shifting Material For Facial Reconstruction

Injuries, birth defects and sometimes surgery to remove a tumor can create gaps in bone that are too large to heal naturally, and in the head, face or jaw, they can dramatically alter a person's appearance. At the National Meeting&Exposition of t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 10:00am

Skin Creams That Contain Toxic Mercury Are Popular- But On The Run

As countries try to rid themselves of toxic mercury pollution, some people are still slathering and even injecting creams containing the metal onto or under their skin to lighten it, putting themselves and others at risk for serious health problems. The g ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 9:01pm

What's In Fracking Fluids? Are They Harmful?

Natural gas proliferation has been a huge boon for the environment- CO2 emissions have plummeted among the U.S. energy sector, primarily because coal emissions have been knocked back to early 1980s levels. But there are concerns by environmentalists that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 9:26am

Modern Day Alchemist Turns Metal Into Glass

Materials scientists have long sought to form glass from pure, monoatomic metals and Scott X. Mao, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues have done it. How was it accomplished? It's ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 9:51am

Meet BPA-Free, The New BPA

There’s an emerging trend, of late, in the seemingly endless saga of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which is most commonly used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins.   Although the BPA saga has not yet become completely passé, much of the atten ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Aug 18 2014 - 9:12am

Hormone Mimics: A New Way To Capture Them

Chemicals known as hormone mimics may damage our ability to reproduce and pollute the natural environment. Now there may be a new way of capturing them. In a laboratory in Trondheim, researchers have managed to create minute particles with some very desira ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2014 - 3:45pm