Chemists clean ceramics and coat enzymes in plastic

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Chemist Andrew Barron developed a non-toxic ceramics processing technique, by breaking up aluminum-oxide particles to make them soluble in water. Jonathan Dordick et al incorporated enzymes into plastics to make them self-cleaning. A mobile lab travels to high-school chemistry classes.

Plastics, Environmental aspects, Enzymes, Chemical laboratories, American Chemical Society, Ceramic industry

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Chemists self-assemble in southern California

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Research reports presented at the 1995 American Chemical Society meeting covered a new class of polymers that self-assemble into 100-layer films, new compounds called polyoxometalates that bleach wood pulp without harming the environment and ancient DNA found in rock paintings.

DNA, Monomolecular films, Bleaching, Thin films, Multilayered, Multilayered thin films, Rock paintings, Rock drawings, Wood-pulp, Wood pulp

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Pacific Basin gathering in Hawaii fills with chemists

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One report at the Pacific Rim chemical meeting discussed a project to engineer a tobacco plant to express an insect-killing virus. Another paper described the development of square chiral molecules that may have applications in drug synthesis.

Chirality, Chemistry, Molecular structure, Tobacco, Diseases and pests, Molecules, Plant genetic engineering, 1995 AD, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies

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