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Robert Slinn

Robert Slinn is the guest "Slinn Pickings" columnist for ChemSpy.com, having previously written a column of the same name for sibling site ReactiveReports.com Robert is a Chartered Chemist (CChem), Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). He has extensive experience in R&D: synthesis, analysis and analytical methods development; troubleshooting, consultancy, and teaching/training methods in industry and in academe. He is also a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool and 'Physical Methods' author for the Specialist Periodical Report series 'Organophosphorus Chemistry', Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK. Robert has worked alongside ChemSpy's David Bradley on several chemistry publications over the last couple of years (including the soon to be published Bedside Book of Chemistry) and is currently consultant researcher with David on a major report into the state of the pharma industry to be published as part of the IYC11 celebrations.

Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity

May 21, 2013 – 11:00 am
  • Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity - Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.
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    Beautiful ‘flowers’ self-assemble in a beaker

    May 18, 2013 – 1:00 am
  • Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker - With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a laboratory -- and not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling themselves a molecule at a time.(10.1126/science.1234621)

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    Scientists uncover fundamental property of astatine — rarest naturally occurring element on Earth

    May 17, 2013 – 8:00 am
  • Scientists uncover fundamental property of astatine -- rarest naturally occurring element on Earth - Scientists have carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure of astatine (atomic number 85), the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth. Through experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, scientists have accessed, for the first time, the ionization potential of the astatine atom. The successful measurement fills a long-standing gap in Mendeleev's periodic table, since astatine was the last element present in nature for which this fundamental property was unknown.(10.1038/ncomms2819)

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