Chemistry News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/chemistry-news-viewer/rss Nicholas Jones 2010-08-17T11:45:19Z UCL Jobs Market 2013 & Class of 2013: Careers Week http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-events-publication/events/2013/ucl-careers-2013 Class of 2013: Careers week Leaving UCL – now what? David J Ladd 2013-05-13T10:24:46Z 2013-05-28T08:00:00Z Au- and Pt-Nanoparticle-Functionalized Tungsten Oxide Nanoneedles for Selective Gas Microsensor Arrays http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2013/2013_03_Blackman Chris Blackman demonstrates a new gas-phase method for the one-step synthesis of metal nanoparticles supported on nanostructured metal oxides  as a featured cover article in Advanced Functional Materials. With no requirement for substrate pre-treatment, this provides for direct integration of the co-deposited nanomaterial with device structures and it is utilized for the fabrication of selective gas microsensor arrays based on gold and platinum decorated tungsten oxide nanorods. Chris S Blackman 2013-03-19T08:20:44Z New Physical Chemistry Masters program for 2013 entry http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/masters_advert Applications for entry in September 2013 are now open for MSc courses in the Chemistry Department at UCL including a new course on application of physical chemistry in Medicine, MSc in Molecular Measurements and Analysis . Chris S Blackman 2012-12-11T18:20:10Z Activation of Carbon Dioxide over Zinc Oxide by Localised Electrons http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/2012_11_A_Sokol_R_Catlow Gargi Dutta, Alexey A. Sokol*, C. Richard A. Catlow, Thomas W. Keal, and Paul Sherwood David J Ladd 2012-11-05T14:44:19Z Van der Waals forces http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/amichaelides-jcp-10-2012 Klimes and Michaelides' article on the cover of Journal of Chemical Physics and September's most downloaded article. David J Ladd 2012-10-09T14:50:10Z ACS Present Department with John William Draper medal http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/jwd-medal-2012 John William Draper – When the College opened in 1828, the Professor of Chemistry who was appointed was Edward Turner. One of his students was John William Draper who later emigrated to the United States and became professor of chemistry at New York University. He had a distinguished career, particularly in the new field of photography. He was the first to photograph the moon (1840) and the Great Orion Galaxy (1880), and he is known as the first astrophotographer. David J Ladd 2012-09-04T15:49:20Z Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/2012_08_Price Stephen D Price and colleagues have published a review article regarding the importance of ice research across a range of disciplines. Chris S Blackman 2012-08-28T14:08:49Z Solving the puzzle of water/metal interfaces http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/amichaelides-08-2012 When water binds to solid surfaces it forms a large variety of structures, which leads David J Ladd 2012-08-09T13:23:45Z The Kubas interaction in M(II) (M = Ti, V, Cr) hydrazine-based hydrogen storage materials: a DFT study http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/Kaltsoyannis_07_2012 Claire V. J. Skipper, Ahmad Hamaed, David M. Antonelli and Nikolas Kaltsoyannis David J Ladd 2012-07-05T15:40:08Z Bioaerosol detection using potentiometric tomography in flames http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/caruana_05_07_2012 Dimitris Sarantaridis, Christian Hennig and Daren J. Caruana David J Ladd Chris S Blackman 2012-07-05T14:42:19Z New Property of Flames Sparks Advances in Technology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/caruana_29_06_2012 Work published by Dr Daren Caruana and co-workers in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (DOI:  10.1002/anie.201200226 ) has been highlighted on the UCL website . Chris S Blackman 2012-06-29T14:50:44Z Work by Prof Nik Kaltsoyannis highlighted in JACS and Nature http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/news/2012/kaltsoyannis_05_2012 Recent computational work by Prof Kaltsoyannis  ( J. Am. Chem.Soc. , 2012,  134 (15) , 6500–6503 ), carried out in collaboration with the experimental teams of Profs Aldridge and Mountford from the University of Oxford, and Prof Jones from Monash University, regarding the properties of the first reported stable two-coordinate acyclic silylene, has been highlighted in “Spotlight on Recent JACS Publications” ( J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 2012,  134 (17) , 7195 ) and in Nature ( Nature ,  2012 ,  485,  49–50 ) Chris S Blackman 2012-05-11T14:34:42Z Structure and Biological Activity of Glasses and Ceramic http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/2012_2_A_Tilocca_Philo_Trans_Of_RS Dr Antonio Tilocca has edited with Alastair Cormack a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society A titled "Structure and Biological Activity of Glasses and Ceramics" . The issue illustrates recent developments on topical biomaterials, including silicate and phosphate bioactive glasses, contributed by leading researchers in the field. David J Ladd 2012-02-24T11:19:08Z Synthesis of ureas from titanium imido complexes using carbon dioxide as a C-1 reagent at ambient temperature and pressure http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/2012_2_J_C_Anderson_Org_Biomol_Chem Prof.James C. Anderson and Rafael Bou Moreno David J Ladd 2012-02-13T12:48:57Z Bromomaleimide-Linked Bioconjugates Are Cleavable in Mammalian Cells http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/news/chemistry-news-publication/publications/2012/2012_2_M_E_B_Smith_ChemBioChem P. Moody, Dr. M. E. B. Smith, Dr. C. P. Ryan, Dr. V. Chudasama, Dr. J. R. Baker, Prof. S. Caddick. Bromomaleimides are versatile scaffolds that allow facile conjugation of thiolated biomolecules. Here we demonstrate that bromomaleimide-linked GFP–rhodamine FRET pairs cleave in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. We believe that bromomaleimide scaffolds provide a potential core structure for prodrugs designed to release bioactive cargo following cell internalisation. David J Ladd 2012-02-13T10:49:27Z