Author Archive for: David Bradley (472)

Tape-Stripping Test

Tape-Stripping Test

Tape-stripping technique can be used to monitor worker exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including pyrene and benzo(a)pyrene

Fast Assignment

Fast Assignment

A rapid method for determining absolute configuration using kinetic resolution catalysts has been developed by US chemists

Green Polymers

Green Polymers

Supercritical carbon dioxide can be used as the "solvent" for the polymerization of lactide with an organo-catalyst

Adapt and Analyze

Adapt and Analyze

Home glucose monitor adapted to target other analytes including cocaine, adenosine, interferon-gamma of tuberculosis and uranium

Printing Electronics

Printing Electronics

Antisolvent crystallization exploited to allow build single-crystal films for electronics applications using an inkjet printer

Liquid Proteins

Liquid Proteins

Engineering of globular proteins has allowed to make solvent-free liquids comprising structurally and functionally intact biomolecules

Little Tetrahedra

Little Tetrahedra

Cross-coupling reaction leads to a pyridine-based ligand with a rigid tetrahedral core in good yield — a geometry little explored to date

Sexy Moth

Sexy Moth

The female sex pheromone of a moth whose caterpillars infest date trees, Batrachedra amydraula, has been identified by Swedish and Israeli scientists