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April 1, 2013 Issue

Volume 91, Issue 13
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April 1, 2013 Issue, Vol. 91 | Iss. 13

Nuclear Retirement Anxiety

As nuclear power plants age, concerns grow over financing, complexity, and safety of decommissioning
By Jeff Johnson
(pp. 14-17)
Features
Business

Specialties Are In The Crosshairs As Chemical Firms Turn To Acquisitions To Piece Together New Businesses

Major chemical firms are on the prowl for companies that will jump-start their transformation strategies (pp. 20-23)
Science & Technology

Toward Sustainable Electronics

To reduce electronic waste, a diverse team of engineers searches for new materials, training a savvy workforce along the way (pp. 41-43)
Back Issues
 

News of the Week

Crystal-Free Crystallography

Structure: Small, hard-to-crystallize molecules can be held in nanoscale scaffolds and analyzed via X-ray
(p.9)

Biochemist To Lead NIH Institute

Government: Jon R. Lorsch named director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(p.10)

Deal Sprouts For Monsanto, DuPont

Agbiotech: Firms drop lawsuits over engineered seeds
(p.10)

Pharma Deals Divide High Court

Patent Suits: Court weighs legality of settlements that may delay market entry of generic medicines
(p.11)

W. R. Grace Sues Teledyne For Patent Infringement

Instrumentation: Flash chromatography dispute has instrument makers at loggerheads
(p.11)

Nixing Nitric Oxide

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Reductase enzyme mimic provides insight on how pathogenic bacteria thwart NO attack
(p.12)

Profits Fall At Chinese Giants

Earnings: Sinopec and PetroChina struggle in petrochemicals
(p.12)

Fatigue Guideline Up For Review

A compromised proposal to prevent plant accidents is the topic of next chemical safety board hearing
(p.13)

Pesticides Shown To Damage Bee Brains

Regulation: Latest research adds fuel to a lawsuit calling for EPA to ban neonicotinoid insecticides
(p.13)
 

Departments

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Business

Specialties Are In The Crosshairs As Chemical Firms Turn To Acquisitions To Piece Together New Businesses

Major chemical firms are on the prowl for companies that will jump-start their transformation strategies
(pp. 20-23)

Design Of Experiments Makes A Comeback

Chemical and drug firms warm to multivariable experiment technique for a statistical window into reactions
(pp. 25-28)

SAFC Moves Ahead By Staying Close

Sigma-Aldrich division builds its fine chemicals business by following its customers’ needs
(pp. 29-31)

ACS News

2012–13 Project SEED College Scholarships

(pp. 46-47)

Alfred & Isabel Bader Scholars

(pp. 46-47)

Bayer Scholars

(pp. 46-47)

Ashland Scholars

(pp. 46-47)

Fosbinder Scholars

(pp. 46-47)

Ciba Specialty Chemicals Scholars

(pp. 46-47)

Project SEED Scholar

(pp. 46-47)

Ullyot Scholar

(pp. 46-47)

2013 Central Regional Meeting

(pp. 49-50)

Deadline Approaching For Singlet Fission Workshop

(p.50)

Government & Policy

Counseling EPA

House panel considers legislation to increase industry representation among agency’s science advisers
(p.36)

Streamlining Chemical Security

New regulatory tools may accelerate the approval process for facility antiterrorism plans
(pp. 34-35)

Nuclear Retirement Anxiety

As nuclear power plants age, concerns grow over financing, complexity, and safety of decommissioning
(pp. 14-17)
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Science & Technology

The Mystery Of Hot Gold Nanoparticles

An unintended route to magnetism may lead to thermal cancer treatment
(pp. 44-45)

Toward Sustainable Electronics

To reduce electronic waste, a diverse team of engineers searches for new materials, training a savvy workforce along the way
(pp. 41-43)

Career & Employment

Expect The Unexpected

(p.52)

Newscripts

Preserving Terra-Cotta Soldiers, Making Music In The Lab

(p.56)

Editor's Page

Women In Chemistry

(p.5)

Letters