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Copyright © 2010 American Chemical Society
August 30, 2010 Cover
Volume 88, Issue 35
COVER: Molycorp engineer John Viapondo examinessamples of rare-earth core at the company's Mountain Pass mine.
Volume 88, Issue 35
RARE-EARTH OUTLOOK
Green-energy and high-tech industries grow anxious over China's monopoly on these valuable resources
COVER: Molycorp engineer John Viapondo examinessamples of rare-earth core at the company's Mountain Pass mine.
Credit: Molycorp
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August 30, 2010 Issue
Volume 88, Issue 35
August 30, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 35
Green-energy and high-tech industries grow anxious over China's monopoly on these valuable resources
(pp. 9-12)
Features
Science & Technology
Three nonprofits want to fund early-stage research with help from the masses (pp. 26-27)
News of the Week
Judge Halts Stem Cell Research
Injunction: Federal funding for all human embryonic stem cell research must cease
(p.4)Chemists Convene In Boston
ACS Meeting News: Technical sessions highlight chemistry’s role in fighting diseases
(p.5)Making Edible Nanostructures
ACS Meeting News: Food-grade starting materials yield new metal-organic framework compounds
(p.6)Silver Bullet For Fluorinations
ACS Meeting News: Late-stage cross-coupling may open route to radiotracers
(p.6)A Head-Shaking Sensor
Bioengineering: Chemical detection linked to live cells and robotic mannequin
(p.7)Buyout Targets Plead Their Case
Finance: PotashCorp, Airgas argue that hostile bids do not serve their shareholders
(p.7)Carbon Credits Under Fire
Kyoto Protocol: United Nations examines alleged abuse of carbon-trading system
(p.8)Red Wine Mimics Defended
ACS Meeting News: Sirtris says controversial antiaging compounds act at an allosteric site
(p.8)Departments
Business
Eyeing an opportunity, the world’s synthetic menthol producers expand
(pp. 15-16)
Skill in handling fluorine has allowed 60-year-old halocarbon to continue to build its product slate
(p.17)
Green-energy and high-tech industries grow anxious over China's monopoly on these valuable resources
(pp. 9-12)Concentrates
(pp. 13-14)
(pp. 13-14)- Asian Firms Expand Solar Polysilicon
- LyondellBasell Pulls Out Of Iran
- DuPont Makes More Solar Panel Polymer
- Arch Chemicals Plans R&D Consolidation
- Nalco Buys Enhanced Oil Recovery Firm
- BASF Will Sell Starch Business
- Coal-To-Plastics Plant Opens In China
- Petrobras Inks Biofuels Partnership With KL Energy
- Asahi Builds Medical Materials R&D Center
- Roche Signs Peptide Pact With Aileron …
- … And Will Acquire Diagnostics Company
- Merck Matches Gates On Aid For Botswana
- Researchers Decode Energy Crop Genomes
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Family and mentors told this former ACS Scholar to keep moving forward; she did and still does
(p.31)
Government & Policy
Through their appropriation power, lawmakers could alter Obama’s plans for the agency’s future
(pp. 19-22)
First physicist in Congress crossed party lines to advance science and math education
(p.23)
Science & Technology
ACS Meeting News: Wax is used to time paper-based microfluidic assays
(p.25)
ACS Meeting News: Templated self-assembly process produces highly uniform cylindrical nanomaterials
(p.24)
ACS Meeting News: Imaging shows larger-than-expected SERS-analyzable spots on nanoparticles
(p.24)
ACS Meeting News: Distinctive adhesive is helping scientists understand marine biology and providing a model for synthetic mimics
(p.24)
ACS Meeting News: Lanthanide nanomaterials convert visible light into disinfecting ultraviolet light
(p.25)
ACS Meeting News: Novel prodrug strategy improves an experimental HIV pill
(p.25)
Three nonprofits want to fund early-stage research with help from the masses
(pp. 26-27)
Chemists' fascination with square-planar carbon compounds continues
(pp. 28-29)