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Volume 89, Issue 47
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Volume 89, Issue 47
As composites and inks become commercial products, advanced electronics remain a long way off
November 21, 2011 Issue
Volume 89, Issue 47
November 21, 2011 Issue, Vol. 89 | Iss. 47
As composites and inks become commercial products, advanced electronics remain a long way off
(pp. 10-15)
Features
Government & Policy
House-led DOE investigation is likely to reduce U.S. clean energy investments, growth (pp. 26-27)
Science & Technology
Bloggers pen essays celebrating their favorite chemical reactions (pp. 34-36)
News of the Week
Congress Moves On Budget
Appropriations: First 2012 spending package contains funding for key science agencies
(p.6)All Structures Strong And Small
Materials Science: Airy metal lattices can be tailored to the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale
(p.8)Solvent May Boost Parkinson’s Risk
Epidemiology: Study strengthens link between trichloroethylene exposure and movement disorder
(p.8)Assessing The Drug Shortage
Pharmaceuticals: Study finds significant drop in supply for 75 drugs
(p.9)Bid To Rebuff EPA Rule Fails
Air Pollution: Senate rejects a move to impede cross-state regulation of emissions
(p.9)Departments
Business
Start-up firms target cheap sugars to make possible cost-effective biofuels and biochemicals
(pp. 20-21)
The normally slow pace of new construction in Latin America’s chemical sector may be picking up
(pp. 22-23)
Chemical investor ICIG has turned its attention to drug industry’s assets
(pp. 18-19)Concentrates
(pp. 16-17)
(pp. 16-17)- Firms Fight Over CMP Patents
- Agrium Venture Halts Egypt Operations
- Clariant Upgrades Leather Tanning
- Akzo, Fluorchemie Plan Joint Venture
- Asahi Strengthens Materials R&D
- Tosoh Has Fatal Fire In Japan
- Joule Fuels Plant Set For New Mexico
- Málama Composites Joins America’s Cup
- Cristal Will Make Titanium Dioxide Raw Material
- Lundbeck, Otsuka Link For Psychiatric Drugs
- China’s WuXi Starts Venture Capital Fund
- Boehringer Invests Big In The U.S.
- Genzyme Will Pursue Cystic Fibrosis Drugs
- Business Roundup
ACS News
ACS president-elect establishes groups to study graduate education and communicate climate science
(p.40)
Government & Policy
The fate of future science funding hangs in the balance as supercommittee works to finalize deficit control plan
(p.28)
Why efforts to curb ozone depletion and climate change have opposite outcomes
(p.29)
House-led DOE investigation is likely to reduce U.S. clean energy investments, growth
(pp. 26-27)Education
HHMI NEXUS program funds development of competency-based, interdisciplinary modules for undergraduate courses
(pp. 38-39)
Science & Technology
With chemistry labs on board, its Curiosity rover will identify organics, minerals, isotopes
(pp. 32-33)
As composites and inks become commercial products, advanced electronics remain a long way off
(pp. 10-15)
Bloggers pen essays celebrating their favorite chemical reactions
(pp. 34-36)Concentrates(pp. 30-31)
(pp. 30-31)- Nitrogenase Cofactor Centers On Carbon
- Nanopores Analyze RNA-Drug Complexes
- Proteomics Technique Could Predict Foie Gras Quality
- Constructing Hybrid Nanoparticles
- Deciphering Surface Enantioselectivity
- Nanomagnets Under The Microscope
- Liquid Water Forms Hydrogen Bonds With Benzene
- New Sugar Underpins Plant-Microbe Symbiosis