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Chemistry World September 14, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New 'on-off' membrane for drug delivery A team led by Daniel Kohane of Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, harnessed the thermosensitive properties of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) to form the basis of the new system.
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 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 October 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New light shed on 'photothermal' cell death Photothermal therapy - where tiny particles of a metal are introduced into a cell and heated by laser light to kill the cell - might not work in the way people think, researchers in the UK have discovered.
Chemistry World October 21, 2013 Helen Bache	Sustainable materials sound good Cellulose fibers covered with magnetic nanoparticles have been used to make ultrathin loudspeakers by researchers in Sweden. The material could provide a cheaper and more sustainable alternative to the polymers traditionally used in speakers.
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 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 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 March 27, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Membrane Sacs Made in Minutes Strong, flexible, centimetre-sized membrane sacs that could be used to hold cells for study have been developed by chemists in the US.
Chemistry World July 7, 2011 Hayley Birch	Could Life Have Emerged Inside Inorganic Shells? The basic components of cells can operate within the bounds of inorganic membranes made from nanoparticles, a new study shows.
Chemistry World June 28, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections Antimicrobial nanoparticles that can cross the, almost impermeable, blood-brain barrier have been created by Asian researchers.
Chemistry World October 1, 2015 Philip Ball	Drawn out proteins make self-healing scaffolds An international team of researchers has made tubular protein-based structures that can be shaped into a network by manually pulling out new branches from existing tubes.
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.
Reactive Reports September 2005 David Bradley	Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials.
Chemistry World February 2012	Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth.
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 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 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.
Chemistry World December 3, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Caged toxin for safer, better bacterial vaccines Researchers in the US have developed a new way of vaccinating against bacterial toxins by caging them in hybrid nanoparticles.
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 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 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 May 31, 2006 Jon Evans	Carbon Joins the Dots Carbon could soon replace cadmium as the material of choice for quantum dots, following the development of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles by scientists.
Chemistry World November 22, 2011 Steve Down	Growing super long fibres in seaweed jackets Scientists in Japan have made extremely long supramolecular fibres of a lipid-type compound by self-assembling it in microfluidic channels.
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 October 20, 2013 David Bradley	Will the sky fall as Dr says no to strong 'bond' Just how strong are non-covalent interactions that control supramolecular complexes and protein structure? Perhaps not as strong as chemists previously thought, according to UK chemists.
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford	Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics.
Food Engineering June 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins	Not (just) about size Filtration and fractionation are all about different particulate sizes, right? Guess again. Besides drinking water, dairy is the biggest processing application for filtration. Uses for beer, wine and vinegar are growing, as well.
Chemistry World May 29, 2014 Carla Pegoraro	Dual warhead kills and disarms bacteria A compound that kills bacteria and cleaves their DNA to prevent them passing on drug-resistant genes has been designed by researchers in India.
Chemistry World December 11, 2008 Hayley Birch	Protein threading paves the way for nanomachines A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has discovered how proteins are threaded through pores in cell membranes.
Chemistry World December 5, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Water Cleaning Membrane Shows Hybrid Vigour Scientists in the US have combined naturally-occurring channel proteins with a new polymer to create a membrane that could be used to deliver drugs or purify water.
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 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 April 26, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Pnicogens link up as new bond is discovered German researchers have discovered a chemical oddity - a new type of intramolecular interaction between group 15 atoms, which is as strong as a hydrogen bond. These interactions could be used to build supramolecular structures.
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes.
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 December 9, 2014 Emma Cooper	Plastic bottles recycled into cigarette filters A method to recycle the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from soda bottles into membranes for filtration, including cigarette filter tips, has been developed by scientists.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Chemistry World September 1, 2009 Tom Bond	Complex shines a light on its own creation A complex that spontaneously forms at a surface and then signals its own assembly has been created by scientists from the Netherlands.
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Chemistry World February 23, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Polymer coat helps nanoparticles penetrate mucus US researchers have shown how biodegradable, medically safe polymer coatings can help nanoparticles penetrate the mucus lining that protects human tissues to deliver drugs efficiently.
Chemistry World May 1, 2012 David Bradley	A colorful way to size up nanoparticles Researchers in China have now developed a straightforward light-scattering technique to estimate the size of gold nanoparticles in the 35 to 110nm range.
Chemistry World May 8, 2014 Cally Haynes	Supramolecular velcro unzipped by a voltage Scientists in China have designed a velcro-like material held together by non-covalent interactions that can be unfastened by electrical means and refastened again under pressure.
Chemistry World February 14, 2013 James Urquhart	Chemical velcro sticks underwater South Korean scientists have developed a chemical velcro that shows promise as a strong and reversible underwater adhesive.
Chemistry World February 3, 2011 Hayley Birch	Nanoparticle studies guide coating design A new study provides guidance for designing nanoparticle coatings based on the particles' size and the environment they are to be used in. The research could help scientists create more effective nanoparticle drug carriers.
Chemistry World May 16, 2014 Patrick Walter	Three glowing mice Mice injected with quantum dots are helping scientists understand how nanoparticles can accumulate in the body.
Chemistry World April 21, 2006 Philip Ball	In the Blink of an Eye Researchers have found that there's much more to tears than salty water. The liquid film that moistens the eyes has a coating similar to a cell membrane, which keeps debris and bugs out while holding water in, and is structured so that it doesn't get broken up each time we blink.
Chemistry World September 23, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles Hide Behind Protein Cloak Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown.