The best way to clean up incinerator emission may be to send it through a carbon nanotube. Slippery coatings might stop bacteria sticking to medical implants. Circuit training The nano-electronics of the future might use DNA to build itself. A slave to sugars New superbeads may lighten the load for medicinal chemists with a taste for the sweet things in life. 15 FEB 2001 Plastic, heal thyself Fatigued materials have a new self-help cure.
Sunlight can protect steel from corrosion.
Protein predictors need start to finish Given better starter's orders, computers could predict what genes mean. Cellulose can help chemists recover expensive catalysts. 15 JAN 2001 Smart solutions Industry and the environment should benefit from new selective solvents. Faster photo finish A new breed of dyes may make photographic film twice as responsive to light. 11 DEC 2000 Heat screen for catalysts Chemists have a new way to work out which catalysts are hot and which are not.