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Shell extract helps rebuild pearly whites | Chemistry World

April 12, 2013 – 2:00 am
  • Shell extract helps rebuild pearly whites | Chemistry World - Researchers in China have shown that the organic component of mother of pearl can help repair damaged teeth, by acting as a template for the mineralisation of tooth enamel.(10.1039/c3ce26947g)

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    Oil loving membranes for oil spill clean-ups

    November 13, 2012 – 3:03 pm

    Oil loving membranes for oil spill clean-ups | Chemistry World - Researchers in China have made a new type of membrane that can separate oil from water and could potentially be used in oil spills, such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico. The membrane works by interacting differently with the substances as it is both superhydrophobic and superoleophilic, so that it repels water but attracts oil. This means that the oil is absorbed through the membrane, but the water can’t penetrate.(10.1039/c2nr33063f)

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    Printing out new catalysts | Chemistry World

    November 2, 2012 – 2:02 pm

    Printing out new catalysts | Chemistry World - An inkjet printer has been repurposed to create a huge library of potential catalysts. To make the technology work with inorganic reagents that have different chemistries, a collaboration between chemists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, and Zhejiang University in China, has created special 'inks' made of colloidal nanoparticles of different metal precursors and polymers that direct the formation of the resulting nanoparticle structures.(10.1021/nl302992q)

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