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Volume 88, Issue 10
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Volume 88, Issue 10
LASER TURNS 50
Five decades of laser technology shine light on chemistry fundamentals
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March 8, 2010 Issue
Volume 88, Issue 10
March 8, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 10
Five decades of laser technology shine light on chemistry fundamentals
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Features
Business
At Informex, companies wooed customers with new in-house and partnered capabilities (pp. 20-22)
Government & Policy
News Analysis: Obama offers waste-plan overhaul, more R&D funds, and loan guarantees in hopes of building more reactors (pp. 31-33)
Cover Story: Nifty At Fifty
Brief Chronicle Of The Laser(pp. 14-17)
Molecular Dynamics In Real Time(pp. 14-15)
Skyward View(p.14)
Molecules At Surfaces And Interfaces(pp. 15-16)
Electron Dynamics(pp. 16-17)
News of the Week
Superconductor Is Simply Organic
Materials: Graphene subunit is a new class of organic high-temperature superconductors
(p.7)Climate Panel To Get Independent Review
Climate Change: UN to commission audit of IPCC procedures
(p.8)Upbeat Outlook At Pittcon
Instrumentation: Business picks up as worry over economy begins to dissipate
(p.8)Germany's Merck To Acquire Millipore
Life Sciences: Deal will balance diversified company by adding lab and bioproducts business
(p.9)Astellas Presses Bid For OSI
Pharmaceuticals: Japanese firm hopes to add oncology to its U.S. operations
(p.10)Methane From Arctic Ocean
Climate Science: Amount of the greenhouse gas seeping from undersea deposits is much greater than expected
(p.10)Dow To Exit Styrenics
Sale of Styron division to Bain Capital for $1.6 billion further focuses portfolio
(p.11)Glycoproteins Made To Order
Chemical Biology: First homogeneous, eukaryote-type N-glycoproteins from prokaryotes
(p.11)Departments
Business
Chemical Industry Medalist Michael E. Campbell sees industry advancing by embracing change Michael E. Campbell sees industry advancing by embracing change
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Chemical firms, focused on survival, avoided big-ticket acquisitions in 2009
(pp. 26-27)
Proposed revamp of psychiatry tome presents opportunities for drug firms
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At Informex, companies wooed customers with new in-house and partnered capabilities
(pp. 20-22)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- Solutia Buys Solar Film Firm
- CF Tries To Best Yara For Terra
- BASF Wins EC Okay For Transgenic Potato
- Rhodia Collaborates On ‘Soft Matter’
- Bayer Slates TDI Plant For Germany
- KMG picks up Another Electronics Line
- Eastman Sues DAK, Has Plant Outage
- European Polymer Capacity Is Closing
- BMS And Allergan Link For Pain Drug
- Konarka Enters Pact With Japan’s Konica
- PerkinElmer Acquires MS Venture Stake
- AstraZeneca Details Deep R&D Cuts
- AstraZeneca Bolsters Bangalore Center
- Watson Sells Stake In Taiwan’s ScinoPharm
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
News Analysis: Obama offers waste-plan overhaul, more R&D funds, and loan guarantees in hopes of building more reactors
(pp. 31-33)
Atmospheric measurements can truth-check assertions about greenhouse gas reductions
(pp. 34-35)Books
Book probes chemicals of concern as well as the concepts and perspectives of green chemistry
(pp. 44-45)
Science & Technology
Five decades of laser technology shine light on chemistry fundamentals
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Blue-green algae arrange carbon fixation enzyme compartments for maximum efficiency
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Computer algorithms find fibril-forming sequences in nearly all proteins
(pp. 38-39)
Expert panel recommends screening for effects of chemicals on critical disease pathways
(pp. 40-41)