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Interviews about Chemistry
Interviews about states of matter, gases, fuels, green chemistry, chemical reactions and nanotechnology...
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04 September 2011
Richard Hollingham explores the process of carbon capture and utilisation where the carbon removed from our atmosphere...
21 August 2011
Carbon capture and storage has been seen by the government as an important way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The...
14 August 2011
How can we generate hydrogen quickly and efficiently? Nature has its own way to do this using enzymes called...
14 August 2011
One of the most important chemical players in nature is the protein. The structure of a protein gives it specific...
14 August 2011
In order to design useful new compounds, we need to know exactly what structure any new chemical will take. Computer...
14 August 2011
How do manufacturers make chemicals on seriously large industrial scales? We sent Meera Senthilingam and Dave Ansell...
19 June 2011
Radiocarbon dating is an extremely accurate and useful tool to date archaeological finds which contain any previously...
19 June 2011
Underground coal gasification is a way to get useful fuel from otherwise inaccessible coal seams that are simply un-...
19 June 2011
Skyonic have developed “Skymine”, a system that not only extracts CO2 but actually turns it into something they can...
15 May 2011
Using lasers and over 100,000 hours of computing time, researchers have exposed the previously unknown molecular shape...
15 May 2011
Wading into a river and digging until you get to the slime, soil, dirt and other matter at the bottom may not be...
03 May 2011
Life needs accessible nitrogen - but for over 100 years we've known that the amount of nitrogen available may not...
01 May 2011
The world is united behind a project called ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. Later this...
24 April 2011
A special type of rust, called 'green rust', could be used to scrub contaminants from the environment to make...
10 April 2011
To bring us up to date with events at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, and explain how his own work fits in with this...
27 March 2011
An important resource that we find in deep dark places are the metals and minerals we need for industry and everyday...
06 March 2011
Researchers at Rice university have developed a new way to etch structures into stacked piles of graphene, the...
20 February 2011
How do we study the atmosphere? We have a vast array of tools and chemical tricks that we can rely on, but the...
20 February 2011
Another reason to try and understand atmospheric chemistry is in case there comes a time when we have to try and do...
13 February 2011
In London, Blue Plaques have been placed on buildings across the city for over 140 years to highlight where notable...
31 January 2011
One recent, and fast developing, area of Chemistry is the design and use of Metal-Organic Frameworks. They have...
31 January 2011
Physical sciences director Trevor Rayment looks back at Diamond's highlights and developments in 2010...