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Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes.
Chemistry World August 12, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Unraveling cell membranes to understand drugs Researchers in Sweden have found a way to create flattened cell membranes, known as supported lipid bilayers, out of real cell structures.
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Michael Gross	Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail.
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures.
Chemistry World November 12, 2012 Holly Sheahan	Oil loving membranes for oil spill clean-ups 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.
Chemistry World March 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Drinking water from sunlight and seawater A device that can 'push' the salt out of seawater has been developed by US researchers.
Chemistry World May 10, 2013 Michael Parkin	Super Glue for cells Scientists in Canada have made a super-strong cell membrane adhesive and used it to stick red blood cells together. The polymer, based on the phospholipid head group phosphatidyl choline, could be used to secure cells in particular positions for tissue engineering and wound closure.
Chemistry World August 7, 2008	Making Seawater Easier to Swallow Researchers based in the US and Korea have developed a membrane that cuts the costs of filtering salt from seawater.
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells.
Chemistry World April 13, 2011 Fay Nolan-Neylan	Nanofiltration for better energy storage Scientists in China have found that nanofiltration membranes could enhance the efficiency of vanadium redox flow batteries making them a more viable tool for large-scale energy storage.
Chemistry World December 12, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres	Kiss-and-run drug delivery Carriers that release hydrophobic substances at cell membranes but do not enter the cells themselves could be the foundation for a new way to deliver drugs into cells, according to a team of scientists in Germany.
Chemistry World February 2012	Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth.
Chemistry World August 4, 2009 Nina Notman	Cell-sized vesicle assembly line A production line for uniform lipid-coated microspheres has been created by Japanese scientists. One day these could be used in drug delivery or artificial cells.
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Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Russell Johnson	Jump starting prebiotic photochemistry Light activated reactions of organic molecules in fatty acid membranes offers a plausible method for energy transfer and storage in prebiotic systems, claim US scientists.
Chemistry World September 21, 2010 Hayley Birch	Self-pumping membrane mimics cell machinery US researchers have imitated the transport functions of biological membranes by incorporating tiny pumps into synthetic membranes. They say their 'self-pumping' mimics could be used in compartment-less fuel cells.
Chemistry World May 17, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Non-stick approach to regular polymer vesicles UK researchers have devised a new method for making polymer vesicles
BusinessWeek March 10, 2011 Caroline Winter	Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process.
Chemistry World September 22, 2011 Erica Wise	Faster acting drugs Ionic liquid drugs can rapidly pass through the skin and may open the way to new, more effective medicines, say scientists in Australia.
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Tegan Thomas	Hair and polymers click In the search for new haircare products, scientists in the UK have developed a new method to chemically modify hair with polymers.
Chemistry World May 19, 2006 Jon Evans	CNTs Provide Pores for Thought Membranes containing pores made of carbon nanotubes could improve the efficiency of processes such as desalination and removing CO 2 from industrial emissions.
Chemistry World August 22, 2008 Hayley Birch	Drug uptake rule challenged A study by UK scientists apparently contradicts a 100-year-old rule thought to govern the rate at which molecules cross biological membranes.
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.
Chemistry World August 10, 2015 Kira Welter	Peptide glue may have held first protocell components together Electrostatic interactions induced by short, positively charged, hydrophobic peptides are all it takes to attach RNA to vesicle membranes.
Chemistry World February 14, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Slim-Line Silicon Speeds up Protein Separation Tough, ultra-slim silicon membranes could drastically improve the performance of lab-on-a-chip micro-analytical systems, kidney dialysis machines and, in the future, even produce an artificial kidney, claim researchers.
Chemistry World October 3, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Graphene targets water treatment and carbon capture Researchers in South Korea have demonstrated that a membrane based on graphene and graphene oxide makes an effective filter to separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen gas.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Sally Adee	Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help
Chemistry World September 19, 2013 Banholzer & Jones	Possible versus practical Scientists and engineers must do a better job assessing and explaining the difference between the subset of discoveries that offers practical solutions and the set that is simply possible.
Chemistry World June 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nicotine hit at the flick of a switch with new nanotube patch A membrane embedded with carbon nanotubes can deliver a pulse of nicotine at the flick of a switch - rather than the continuous diffusion of the drug through current skin patches.
Chemistry World September 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Coupled proteins to reveal drug hits Researchers in France have successfully attached an 'electrical switch' to a key class of membrane proteins targeted by many drugs.
Chemistry World January 23, 2011 James Urquhart	Novel nanoparticle filter Israeli researchers have created a recyclable membrane based on supramolecular linkages that can be used to filter nanoparticles.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Heated plastic holds proteins One important task for biochips is sorting proteins, but it's tricky business getting protein molecules to be where you want them and stay away from where you don't. A tiny, plastic-coated hot plate allows scientists to trap and release proteins on command.
Chemistry World July 4, 2014 Andy Extance	Molecular sieve membranes look to greener separations US researchers have made molecular sieving fibers that open up new possibilities for large scale chemical separations that use much less energy than conventional distillation methods.
Chemistry World July 5, 2011	Cleaning up Water Dion Dionysiou talks about how growing up in a region of water scarcity in Cyprus led to a career in environmental water chemistry.
Chemistry World March 20, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Sensitive Polymers Show Drug Delivery Promise Chemists in the US have developed a three-component polymer that can respond to temperature, pH and the presence of a reducing agent.
Chemistry World September 1, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Drug discovery on a chip Scientists in the US have, for the first time, used microfluidics to discover drug leads. The team's lab-on-a-chip device revealed inhibitors of a key membrane-bound protein in hepatitis C virus
Chemistry World April 22, 2012 Steve Tarleton	Membranes for all Introduction to Membrane Science and Technology by Heinrich Strathmann, is aimed at advanced students as well as process and chemical engineers working in industry.
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions.
Chemistry World April 4, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Speeding up wound healing Scientists in China have developed a material that reduces the time required for a skin wound to heal.
Chemistry World June 10, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Electrode dip to freshen up saltwater Producing freshwater from brackish water could be cheaper and easier than previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a new technique for desalination.
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 David Bradley	Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through UK researchers have created a graphene-based membrane that allows water through but not helium.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Sarah Adee	New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia.
Chemistry World April 30, 2009 Nina Notman	Long live lipid membranes Scientists in the US have massively extended the lifetime of lipid membranes, with potential implications for the pharmaceutical industry
Chemistry World November 15, 2012 David Bradley	DNA folds up into a synthetic ion channel An artificial ion channel that spans a synthetic lipid membrane has been created using DNA origami by researchers in Germany and the US.
Chemistry World December 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Polymer Chemistry Tackles Implant Concerns Advances in polymer chemistry could help resolve safety concerns surrounding body implants, such as stents to hold open clogged arteries, scientists heard at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential.
Chemistry World June 18, 2015 David Bradley	Ultra-thin membranes for solute separation Polymer membranes that are extremely thin, yet strong and stable, could cut the costs of separating organic molecules and reduce energy requirements in the chemical industry.