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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. |
Chemistry World April 17, 2012 Elinor Richards |
Ionic liquid drugs hit the spot Pharmaceutically active ionic liquids have been immobilised onto solid supports to enable liquid drugs to be administered in solid form. |
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 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 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. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Predicting ionic liquid toxicity Rapid screening of ionic liquids to determine their toxicity is now possible thanks to a modelling technique by scientists in Spain. |
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 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. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2010 Carol Stanier |
Hybrid electrolyte for better batteries Safer, more durable batteries are the aim of a US team that has made a new, hybrid nanoparticle-ionic liquid electrolyte. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Materials 'sandwich' superconducts Scientists in Japan have made a 'superconducting sandwich' from two materials are not superconductors in isolation. The technique could be used to make electronic circuits with extremely low power consumption, the researchers suggest. |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller |
Electrowetting can yield rugged, inexpensive, low-power lenses Ask military optoelectronic-systems designers what they want most in lenses, and you will often hear rugged, lightweight, small size, and low cost. In the near future a technology called electrowetting may deliver these qualities and more. |
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. |
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 David Murphy |
Eyeballing Your Camera A Liquid lens for cameras is currently in development and would allow quicker and more precise focusing and optical zooming. |
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. |
Chemistry World December 22, 2010 Patricia Pantos |
Ferrofluids help you see better US researchers have used ferrofluids as liquid pistons that could be used to make adjustable liquid lenses with nearly perfect spherical interfaces for applications such as an optometrist's phoropter. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2014 James Urquhart |
First ionic liquid made from plant waste Ionic liquids -- salts that are liquid at room temperature -- could potentially be made more cheaply and greenly by recycling by-products from biofuel production processes, according to US researchers. |
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 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 March 15, 2012 Andrew Shore |
Designer solvent hits hospital superbug Scientists from Ireland, the Czech Republic and Spain have found an antimicrobial ionic liquid that targets MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). |
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 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 May 20, 2013 Jessica Cocker |
Taking the shine off Painting restoration could be yet another application for ionic liquids, new research shows. The work paves the way to safer procedures for cleaning paintings. |
Chemistry World April 5, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Variable Focus at the Flick of a Switch Aging eyes could soon have an alternative to bifocal spectacles, with the development of liquid crystal lenses that focus on near or distant objects at the flick of a switch. |
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. |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Chemistry World August 2, 2006 Jessica Ebert |
Smart Microlenses Come Into Focus Liquid lenses that can flex between convex and concave forms in response to a change in temperature or pH could find uses in autonomous imaging systems for medical diagnostics, their inventors say. |
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 March 12, 2015 Simon Neil |
Mercury-grabbing ionic liquids hit the gas Scientists in the UK and Malaysia have disclosed the research behind a fast and safe commercial technology for removing mercury from natural gas. |
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 August 25, 2011 Holly Sheahan |
New Source of Tamiflu Japanese scientists have discovered a new way of obtaining shikimic acid, the compound needed to make the influenza drug Tamiflu. |
Chemistry World May 2, 2012 Russell Johnson |
Reducing the cost of oxygen enrichment A simple synthesis using ionic liquids reduces the cost of studying micro-porous oxide materials by NMR. This could help scientists uncover the chemistry and interactions that occur inside these materials. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
pH adjustable protein micro-lenses Scientists in China have used a common protein to create tiny optical lenses, a few tens of micrometres in diameter, whose focus can be adjusted simply by changing the pH of the surrounding medium. |
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. |