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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) has flirted with web 2.0 with it's recent JACS β initiative. It has been warmly received around the blogosphere [CSB, TCB, CBC]. Although, I don't have any complaints about the website, what I really wanted was less hand-holding and more of a ...
Posted in ACS, chem 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Below is a description for a tenure track position at Missouri, its rather tongue-and-cheek and the background of the story can be found here:
http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/jobpost.asp
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701
Enclosed is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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Hayton, from Santa Barabara, presented his recent work with uranium (VI) compounds. The chemistry of Uranium (VI) is dominated by the formation of Uranyl (UO2)2+. However, the Hayton group was able to synthesize and fully characterize U(OtBu)6 (1). The compound was reacted with aryl-alcohols in the hope of producing ...
Posted in ACS, nuclear chemistry, synthetic chemistry | No Comments »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
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Dresselhaus of MIT did a review of her many years in carbon nanostructures. She also presented some of her recent work with different types of graphene ribbons. Specifically, for the zigzag case shown below the electronic structure will be highly metallic while the armchair graphene will have a more ...
Posted in ACS, materials chemistry | 2 Comments »
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
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The ability to selectively extract actinides out of nuclear waste remains a hot research topic. Today Hancock, from Wilmington, gave a presentation on several tetradentate ligands that bind to actinides more strongly than other smaller metals. The systems he investigated are shown below.
The PDA system was highlighted for its ...
Posted in ACS, nuclear chemistry | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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I'll be attending the ACS-Philadelphia conference next week. One of the sessions sponsored by the Environmental division is called "New Energy Technology" on Wednesday morning out at the DoubleTree-Maestro B. The title implies itself to wonderful talks discussing frontiers in applied energy chemistry. Unfortunately, the session is completely dominated by ...
Posted in ACS, nuclear chemistry | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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We're always fans of highlighting the sexier side of chemistry in contemporary news. Recently, a chemist was a contestant in the 2008 Miss Universe contest. Miss Mexico, Elisa Najera, is 21 years old and a chemistry student. She came in 5th overall, 1st was won by an interior design student ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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Science ethics is the new flavor of the past couple weeks around the chemical blogosphere (TCB, CB, TCB, SB) and continuing that trend is the story of Richard Lenski and conservapedia. Richard Lenski being the E. Coli evolving citrate consumption guy (pnas), was responding to which stipulations he would agree ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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So some background, the reaction we are doing is a beam of 40Ar on a 169Tm target to make various alpha emitting isotopes of Francium. We're using Francium as a model system for our electronics and gas transport system for an eventual Rutherfordium organometallic experiment we'll do in a month ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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The next ACS national meeting is less than 2 months away and already the facebook groups are getting created around it. [event] As these conference registration fees can become expensive for even graduate student members ($165), I tried to see if I could get mine comped. I applied as a ...
Posted in ACS, chemical blogosphere | 7 Comments »
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