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Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
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Reactive Reports Issue 73 David Bradley	Super Insulator An international team of scientists has created a material that at close to absolute zero has an electrical resistance 100,000 times higher than its room temperature value.
Chemistry World May 30, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	New superconductors open up the periodic table For two decades, the search for superconductors that worked at high temperatures was restricted to copper. Now a new family of high-temperature superconductors based on iron has been discovered.
Chemistry World May 2, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Ionic Liquids' Etch-A-Sketch Surprise UK chemists have discovered how to draw and erase pictures on the surfaces of ionic liquids.
Chemistry World September 24, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Raised eyebrows greet graphite superconductivity claim Can graphite treated merely with water become a superconductor at room temperature? This is the extraordinary claim made by scientists in Germany.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	A Nanometer-Scale Etch A Sketch Scientists use a microscope to write and erase nanowires.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Haldar & Abetti	Superconductivity's First Century In the 100 years since superconductivity was discovered, only one widespread application has emerged
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 Kira Welter	Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions.
Chemistry World February 2008 Joe McEntee	Resistance is Useless Chemistry holds the key to commercialization of high-temperature superconductors that could revolutionize electrical power supply.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Richard Massey	Ionic liquid-gas interfaces: more than a surface glance Research by scientists in the UK suggests that small changes in the nature of binary ionic liquid systems can significantly alter their surface composition.
Chemistry World June 3, 2011 Emma Shiells	Ionic liquid advance over saline-based lenses Ionic liquids are the key to observing improved performance and wider temperature ranges for variable focus lenses over conventional saline alternatives, report scientists in China.
Chemistry World October 4, 2012 Laura Howes	New superconductors are both ordinary yet odd Two new superconducting materials have been created: one's unconventional, while the other is more conventional except for one difference, it doesn't contain any transition metals.
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic clicks with ratchet Microscopic electrical tornadoes pop up and skitter around superconductors whenever magnetic fields go through them. Scientists have found that manipulating these vortices, which can flip a bit between 1 and 0, could lead to very fast computer logic circuits.
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Saswato R. Das	Scientists Solve Mystery of Superinsulators The opposite of superconductivity might lead to strange new circuits
Chemistry World March 5, 2012 James Urquhart	Simulating Your Way to a Better Supercapacitor Researchers have used computer simulations to elucidate how supercapacitors are able to store electric charge.
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 Sage Bowser	Through the looking glass with switchable mirrors Scientists in South Korea have developed a reversible electrochemical mirror that can switch between a transparent and reflective state, and remain reflective for up to two hours without external electrical power.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Manisha Lalloo	Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together.
Chemistry World May 27, 2015 Emma Stephen	ZIF-8 disrupts ionic liquid deep freeze Researchers from Japan have combined an ionic liquid with a metal -- organic framework to produce an unusual material that retains its conductivity below -- 20 C.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Alexander Hellemans	Thermal Transistor: The World's Tiniest Refrigerator Thermal transistors refrigerate one electron at a time and physicists plan to compute with heat.
Chemistry World August 13, 2013 Simon Hadlington	New evidence for room temperature graphite superconductivity leaves experts unconvinced Researchers in Germany have presented further evidence for room temperature superconductivity in regions of graphite samples. Other experts, however, remain cautious about the interpretation of the measurements.
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross	A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system.
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Andy Extance	Good vibrations brighten superconductor outlook New observations from researchers in the US and Canada of how electron movement in superconductors can be boosted could be set to accelerate their development.
Chemistry World October 16, 2013 Tim Wogan	New superconductor is first predicted then created Iron tetraboride's superconductivity was predicted from advanced electronic structure computations years before it was synthesized.
Chemistry World November 12, 2015 Tim Wogan	Flat boron first looks promising for nano-electronics The super hard material, which was formed by two-stage chemical vapor deposition, has unusual properties for a two-dimensional material that could potentially make it very useful in nano-electronics.
Chemistry World February 16, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Surprise Discovery That Ionic Liquids Can be Distilled Green solvents are now easier to recycle and purify, following the discovery that ionic liquids are volatile and can be distilled.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Purdue Researchers Demonstrate New Chip-Cooling Technology Researchers are taking a new approach with a new technology that uses tiny ionic wind engines that they say might dramatically improve computer chip cooling-a constant challenge for military and commercial electronics designers.
Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Philip Ball	Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Rachel Courtland	Superconductor Logic Goes Low-Power Energy-efficient superconducting circuits could be key to future supercomputers
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.
Technology Research News December 19, 2005	Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 William Sweet	Winner: Adrenaline for the Grid A novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support.
InternetNews August 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio	A Mighty Wind's a Blowin' at Purdue Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new method of semiconductor cooling that could improve the cooling rate inside computers by as much as 250 percent.
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 May 18, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Rocket fuel goes green with ionic liquids Military researchers in the US have developed a novel 'green' rocket fuel whose constituents are less corrosive and toxic than those used in conventional propellant systems.
Chemistry World June 28, 2013 Helen Potter	Ionic liquid formulation improves herbicide Scientists in Poland and the US have reformulated the herbicide dicamba to reduce its environmental impact.
Chemistry World August 1, 2014 Emma Stoye	Ants mix up ionic liquid The first naturally occurring ionic liquid has been discovered by researchers in the US, formed by warring ants who mix their own venom with that from a rival species.
Chemistry World September 30, 2008 Michael Gross	Cracking Wood Gently German scientists have combined ionic liquids and solid catalysts to gently break down the cellulose in wood and inedible plant material, easing the crucial first stage in converting waste biomass to fuels or feedstock chemicals.
Chemistry World December 23, 2015 Richard Massey	Green rocket fuel breaks records Chinese scientists have developed a new family of safer chemical propellants with the shortest ignition times and lowest viscosities of any ionic fluid rocket fuels to date.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.
Chemistry World March 26, 2015 Jonathan Midgley	Ionic liquid a perfect fit for rare earth recycling Chemists in Belgium have shown how an intriguing ionic liquid they developed 10 years ago can recover valuable rare earth metals from stockpiles of used fluorescent lamps and magnets.
Chemistry World July 12, 2013 Matthew Smith	Cobalt redox couple boosts thermoelectric cells Scientists in Australia have improved a technology that recycles waste heat into useable energy by using ionic liquids containing cobalt redox couples as the electrolytes in thermoelectric cells.
Chemistry World August 27, 2014 Hayley Simon	Ionic liquids join battle against antibiotic resistance US researchers have used ionic liquids -- organic salts that are liquid at room temperature -- to disrupt bacterial biofilms and deliver antibiotics through the skin's outer layer.