QuickNanocontainer Construction

Finished in one step: nanoscale octahedral nanocontainers

02-Jan-2006 - Nanoscale containers are in high demand because of their ability to enclose molecules. They can, for example, be used asmolecular reaction chambers for controlled chemical reactions or as transporters and storage containers for drugs or pesticides; they can also filter poisonous substances out of ...

130 Years of Shimadzu

08-Apr-2005 - Shimadzu celebrates its 130th anniversary this year. Since 1875, Shimadzu has supported scientific research and offers analytical and diagnostic systems for medical, chemical and pharmaceutical applications. The passion for new product developments follows the tradition initiated by Genzo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry Announces Encouraging Innovation Award Winners

10-Feb-2005 - The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the winners of its Encouraging Innovation Awards for 2004. These prestigious prizes recognise the importance of innovation - transforming creative ideas into commercial successes - to the future of the chemical science industry in the UK. Each award ...

Fujitsu Develops World's Fastest Method of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Drug Discovery

Succeeds in validating its feasibility together with Tokai University

18-Nov-2003 - Fujitsu Limited and Tokai University's School of Medicine announced the successful validation of the new computational method of quantum chemical calculations for drug discovery. The feasibility of the new method was validated and successfully proved by reproducing the biological activities of ...

900MHz NMR magnet technology in Japan

19-Aug-2003 - Two of the world's most powerful NMR magnets have now been successfully installed at state-of-the-art NMR facilities in Japan. These are the latest 900MHz NMR superconducting magnets in its manufacturing pipeline that Oxford Instruments Superconductivity has shipped, installed and brought to ...

Sticking molecules together

Scanning probe microscope links dendritic polymer molecules

24-Apr-2003 - The idea of simply grabbing molecules with a pair of tweezers and sticking them together just as you wish is not nearly as absurd as it sounds. Berlin researchers headed by Jürgen P. Rabe and A. Dieter Schlüter have pulled off just such a trick. Their "construction with molecules" is an ...

Chemical Industry Celebrates Innovation of 2002 Nobel Prize Winners

New Revolutionary Chemical Methods Vital to Developing Pharmaceuticals, Food Processing Methods and Diagnosing Cancers

24-Oct-2002 - The chemical industry congratulates the 2002 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their seminal work in developing powerful new analytical methods for studying biological "big molecules," or macromolecules, such as proteins in and out of their natural environment. These breakthroughs ...

Varian, Inc., and Oxford Instruments Open Life Sciences Lab Housing World's Most Powerful NMR Spectrometer

05-Mar-2001 - The world's most powerful instrument used for determining the structure, function and dynamics of large bio-molecules is now providing life scientists with information considered vital to the basic understanding of protein and nucleic acid function and to the discovery of new ...