But not to mice

08-Apr-2021

Ordinary pure water has no distinct taste, but how about heavy water - does it taste sweet, as anecdotal evidence going back to 1930s may have indicated? And if yes - why, when D2O is chemically practically identical to H2O, of which it is a stable naturally-occurring isotope? These questions ...

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12-Nov-2018

Under the leadership of Petr Cígler from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB Prague) and Martin Hrubý from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (IMC), both of which are part of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers has developed a revolutionary method for ...

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Covalently modified two-dimensional arsenic

17-Oct-2018

The discovery of graphene, a material made of one or very few atomic layers of carbon, started a boom. Today, such two-dimensional materials are no longer limited to carbon and are hot prospects for many applications, especially in microelectronics. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists ...

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Scientists Develop Magnetic Carbon

08-Mar-2017

A dream of many generations of researchers has been fulfilled by a discovery made by scientists at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) at the Palacky University in Olomouc. By using graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon, these scientists prepared the first ...

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05-Apr-2012

VWR International, LLC announced that it has acquired VITRUM PRAHA S.R.O. and VITRUM ROZNOV S.R.O., two distributors of scientific laboratory supplies headquartered in Prague and Roznov. VITRUM PRAHA and VITRUM ROZNOV were founded in the early 1990's and are two well established independent ...

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18-Nov-2011

Tikkurila has signed a letter of intent to sell the entire share capital of its three sales companies in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The intention is to sell the companies to a Czech company to be established by Tikkurila's local management. The new company will continue the retail ...

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21-Oct-2010

Spolchemie announced the appointment of Mr. Goro Iwamura as Marketing Manager Resins at Spolchemie. Mr. Iwamura is on secondment from DIC Japan initially for one year. He has worked at DIC for 30 years in various technical and commercial positions in the resins business in the USA and Japan. ...

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02-Sep-2010

Philippe Tanguy, vice president of scientific development at international oil and gas company Total has been awarded a certificate of IChemE Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to chemical engineering. The presentation took place on in Prague, Czech Republic at the 7th ...

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25-Aug-2010

Dr. Martin Molzahn of Germany has been awarded the Dieter Behrens Medal by the EFCE. The award, which is presented once every four years, recognises work carried out on behalf of the Federation by raising the profile of chemical engineering throughout Europe or in relation to the organisation, ...

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06-Jul-2010

Maarten Sabbe, a chemical engineering PhD student at the University of Gent in Belgium has been awarded the 2010 EFCE Excellence Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering. Sabbe won the award for his PhD thesis, Ab initio based kinetic modelling for the simulation of industrial chemical processes. ...

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