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Chemistry World March 27, 2015 James Urquhart	Graphene sandwich turns water square Sandwiching water between two sheets of graphene leads to it freezing at room temperature to form two-dimensional square ice crystals, a hitherto unknown phase of ice.
Chemistry World September 1, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Wendy Brown: Space dust chemistry Professor Wendy Brown's research reproduces the cold and low pressures of space to model chemical reactions that occur when particles are brought together on interstellar dust grains.
Chemistry World June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington	A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice.
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Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Philip Ball	Water's Surface is Acidic Pure, neutral water has an acid skin. This striking notion has now been confirmed by calculations and tests by an international team of scientists. The finding could be significant for a number of disciplines.
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Katia Moskvitch	Saturn's largest moon home to prebiotic 'soup' Scientists should expand their quest for life in other worlds by searching for any kind of liquid, not just water, say researchers.
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation.
Chemistry World January 14, 2015 Melanie White	Super-dipoles linked to chloroform's outstanding solvent properties Super-dipoles uncovered in chloroform by chemists in the UK could explain the solvent's powerful ability to dissolve a large range of substances at high concentrations.
Chemistry World September 12, 2008 Hayley Birch	Q and A: The hunt for water on Mars The Phoenix Lander has been digging for water on Mars since late May 2008. Yet despite the best efforts of the NASA scientists at the controls, the solar-powered robot has hit nothing but ice.
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Chemistry World November 13, 2015 Kira Welter	First permanently porous liquid created Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalized organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
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Scientific American October 2008 Steven Ashley	Cool Polymers: Toward the Microwave Oven Version of the Refrigerator Getting a bigger chill out of polymers that respond to electric fields.
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Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Chemistry World October 2007 Mark Peplow	Chemistry's Big Question The way that we currently produce our energy -- for light, heat and transportation -- is clearly unsustainable. Chemistry really can save the world -- but scientists must be canny about selecting the most commercially realistic ways of achieving that.
Chemistry World February 12, 2013 Philip Ball	Water structure controversy laid to rest? A controversy about the structure of liquid water that has raged for almost a decade may be laid to rest by a new computational study.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington	A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist.
Chemistry World December 5, 2006 Michael Gross	Hydrogen Generation Mimics Photosynthesis Hydrogen is often touted as an environmentally-friendly fuel -- but the gas is only as clean as the method used to make it. Now, however, scientists have invented a solar-powered method for splitting water which they claim is the most efficient to date.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson	The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.
Chemistry World March 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	The Hole Story UK chemists are trying to create the first liquids made from holes. The strange fluids could change the way chemical plants operate, they claim.
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Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Bendy solar cells that can take the heat Chemists in Switzerland and China have used a liquid electrolyte to make flexible solar cells that are better than current devices at withstanding heat from the sun's rays.
Chemistry World June 2006	New on the Market Throw away your old bunsens... Lighting for lab clean rooms... Drug analysis in the cold... Cell analysis... Introducing gas... Weighing with extreme precision... Robotic liquid handling... Testing night vision...
Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Nina Notman	Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains.
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans	Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material.
Chemistry World March 25, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Water goes with a bang US researchers have found that water appears to play a key role as a catalyst in complex explosions.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Molecule Harvests Water's Hydrogen The key to producing clean hydrogen energy is finding a non-polluting method to extract pure hydrogen from its most abundant source, water. Researchers have developed a supramolecular complex that could be used in devices that use light energy to extract hydrogen from water.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans	World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic.
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Chemistry World May 2009	The artificial leaf Using sunlight to split water molecules and form hydrogen fuel is one of the most promising tactics for kicking our carbon habit.
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Chemistry World October 2007 Bernard Bulkin	Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them.
National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin	Cleaner, More Efficient Method for Capturing CO2 Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a screening method that would use ionic liquids -- a special type of molten salt that becomes liquid under the boiling point of water -- to separate carbon dioxide from its source.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows.
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Geotimes June 2006 Stephen L. Gillett	A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology.
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Chemistry World September 13, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Red Oxygen Structure Revealed An international team of researchers has cracked a conundrum that has baffled scientists for years: they have elucidated the crystalline structure of an enigmatic phase of solid oxygen that arises when the molecule is subjected to high pressure.