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Better Chemistry Flows To The Oil And Gas Industry
The boom in U.S. oil and gas production has brought huge economic opportunities for the country and for the chemical industry. But it has also brought close scrutiny of the chemicals used in processes such as hydraulic fracturing. Between the economic hype and environmental backlash is the story of how chemicals are chosen and marketed for this industry.
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The Biggest Ever U.S. Plastics Show
The NPE 2015 plastics trade show, held in Orlando late last month, proved that even at more than a century old, the plastics industry is still capable of poaching business from materials such as metal, paper, and glass.
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Google Gets Into Battery Arms Race
In late 2012, a team led by former Apple Inc. battery expert Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj began testing batteries developed by others for use in Google devices. About a year later, the group expanded to look at battery technologies that Google might develop itself, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Materials science: The hole story
Over the past two years, a small fleet of BASF delivery vans and cars has clocked up thousands of kilometres on German streets while carrying a big secret: fuel tanks packed with an unusual crystalline material that is riddled with pores roughly a nanometer wide.
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A Glimpse Inside The Sophisticated World Of Synthetic Cannabinoids
They’re tricks every medicinal chemist knows: Swap a nitrogen atom for a carbon; change a methyl to an ethyl; tack on a methoxy group. These molecular modifications, used by pharmaceutical makers to improve drug candidates, are the same ones being used to help synthetic cannabis makers stay one step ahead of the law, as Vice correspondent Hamilton Morris reports.
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How a Bacterial Cell Recognizes its Own DNA
To remember an infection, the CRISPR system grabs a short sequence from the invading viral DNA and inserts it straight into the bacterial genome. The bits of phage DNA are stored in special sections of the genome; these form the immune memory.
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This Guy Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days
Davis doesn’t accelerate the aging process like so many of the methods that have been tried in the past. Rather, he shortcuts it by taking new distillate and running it through his proprietary chemical reactor.
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A Rundown on Recycled Wastewater
Though understandably unappealing on the surface, recycling wastewater is perhaps California’s best option. Here’s what you need to know.
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Prof. George Whitesides Discusses How to Write a Paper
The Publishing Your Research 101 video series helps authors and reviewers understand how to get a manuscript accepted, respond to reviewer comments, navigate ethical considerations, and and improve their manuscript submission process experience.
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How To Build A Collaborative Culture In A Large Organization
Collaboration is about enhancing each other’s work and creating a harmony. It’s following a smart plan to avoid confusion and waste. Collaboration is creating something greater as a group than would be possible for an individual. Design collaboration in large companies can be difficult because you might try to force rigid protocols into the creative design process (which is naturally free-flowing).
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Chemists Celebrate Earth Day (CCED)
Earth Day is April 22. CCED seeks to bring international focus to environmental causes, such as clean air, water, and energy. ACS offers events, contests, and educational resources for members, chemical educators, and chemistry enthusiasts to illustrate the positive role that chemistry plays in preserving the Earth.
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Greetings From ACS’s New CEO: What’s Ahead
The recent American Chemical Society national meeting in Denver was unlike any other that I had attended. The difference was not the meeting itself. It offered the same exciting, leading-edge science as it always has. For me, the major difference was my participation in so many diverse aspects of the meeting in my new role as executive director and chief executive officer of ACS, a position I started in mid-February.
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The only thing worse than having TCs is not having TCs
It is easy to imagine an office of people chatting and laughing during their lunch break in any company. However in Shanghai multinationals, this wave of commotion happens again later in the evening. What for? Telephone conferences (TC).
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Pitching at Every Level, In Every Situation
As an entrepreneur, you are going to need to give the pitch for your business constantly. Effective pitching opens a lot of opportunities for startups, including direct sales, meetings with investors, and admittance into accelerators and competitions. Whether you are delivering a planned presentation, giving your 30 second elevator pitch, or just dropping a single sentence summary, you will encounter a wide range of situations where you will need to quickly communicate what your company is about, and why people should be excited about it.
One of your goals should be to whittle your pitch down to a single sentence.
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Petroleum Characterization by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry
Ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) offers a fast and powerful tool to complement FT-ICR MS analysis of petroleum samples, as it can access compounds spanning a wide range of polarity /volatility and separation occurs on a millisecond timescale. This presentation will discuss the advantages that IM-MS offer for petroleum analysis, including isomeric resolution.
Tuesday, April 21, at 11 a.m. EDT
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From Floods to Drought: How Aerosols Impact Our Climate
Climate change involves more than just CO2. Tune in as Kimberly Prather from UC San Diego explains her research on how atmospheric aerosols play a role in affecting the composition of our atmosphere as well as regional and global climate. This broadcast is being brought to you as a part of the 2015 Chemists Celebrate Earth Day.
Thursday, April 23, at 2 p.m. ET
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Game of Thrones Science: Sword Making and Valyrian Steel
The fantasy epic Game of Thrones is back, and it is chock full of intrigue, indiscretions and, of course, swords. The most sought-after blades in Westeros are made from Valyrian steel, forged using ancient magic. But could you make your own Valyrian steel sword using real-life chemistry? Reactions collaborated with cosplaying chemistry fanatic and material scientist Ryan Consell to see if we could blend metallurgy with Westerosi magic.
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