Laser Turns 50
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"Do you embrace innovation or do you fight it? Fighting change is not going to succeed in the long run. So you might as well embrace it."
MICHAEL E. CAMPBELL, CEO, ARCH CHEMICALS – p. 23
March 8, 2010
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Highlights
Cover Story
Laser Turns 50
C&EN celebrates a half-century of a device that shaped modern chemistry. (pp. 13-17)
» Laser Innovation: Fiber Lasers Bring The Fight (Web Exclusive)
Business
Fine Chemicals Firms Continue To Expand(Member Content)
At Informex, companies wooed customers with new in-house and partnered capabilities. (pp. 20-22)
Government & Policy
New Jolt For Nuclear Power (Member Content)
News Analysis: Obama offers waste-plan overhaul, more R&D funds, and loan guarantees in hopes of building more reactors. (pp. 31-33)
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Nifty At Fifty p. 13
Five decades of laser technology shine light on chemistry fundamentals.
Skyward View p. 14
Molecular Dynamics In Real Time pp. 14-15
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics Of Biomolecules p. 15
Molecules At Surfaces And Interfaces pp. 15-16
Electron Dynamics pp. 16-17
A View Inside Tissues And Cells p. 17
Laser Innovation: Fiber Lasers Bring The Fight (Web Exclusive)
Brief Chronicle Of The Laser pp. 14-17
News Of The Week
Superconductor Is Simply Organic p. 7
Materials: Graphene subunit is a new class of organic high-temperature superconductors.
Upbeat Outlook At Pittcon p. 8
Instrumentation: Business picks up as worry over economy begins to dissipate.
Climate Panel To Get Independent Review p. 8
Climate Change: UN to commission audit of IPCC procedures.
Germany's Merck To Acquire Millipore p. 9
Life Sciences: Deal will balance diversified company by adding lab and bioproducts business.
Challenging EPA On CO2 p. 9
Republicans in Congress want to block EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane From Arctic Ocean p. 10
Climate Science: Amount of the greenhouse gas seeping from undersea deposits is much greater than expected.
Astellas Presses Bid For OSI p. 10
Pharmaceuticals: Japanese firm hopes to add oncology to its U.S. operations.
Glycoproteins Made To Order p. 11
Chemical Biology: First homogeneous, eukaryote-type N-glycoproteins from prokaryotes.
Dow To Exit Styrenics p. 11
Sale of Styron division to Bain Capital for $1.6 billion further focuses portfolio.
Business
Fine Chemicals Firms Continue To Expand pp. 20-22 (Member Content)
At Informex, companies wooed customers with new in-house and partnered capabilities.
Always Looking Ahead pp. 23-25 (Member Content)
Chemical Industry Medalist Michael E. Campbell sees industry advancing by embracing change.
Downturn Dampens Big Mergers pp. 26-27 (Member Content)
Chemical firms, focused on survival, avoided big-ticket acquisitions in 2009.
Eye On Mental Health Bible p. 28 (Member Content)
Proposed revamp of psychiatry tome presents opportunities for drug firms.
Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)
- Solutia Buys Solar Film Firm
- Continuing to build its solar materials portfolio, Solutia has agreed to buy German film maker Etimex Solar...
- CF Tries To Best Yara For Terra
- After withdrawing its bid to buy Terra Industries in January, CF Industries has rejoined the fertilizer deal-making fray...
- BASF Wins EC Okay For Transgenic Potato
- It took 13 years, but BASF has finally gained approval from the European Commission to sell its Amflora genetically modified potato...
- Rhodia Collaborates On ‘Soft Matter’
- Rhodia, the University of Pennsylvania, and France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) are beginning a multiyear collaboration...
- Bayer Slates TDI Plant For Germany
- Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest roughly $200 million in a 300,000-metric-ton-per-year toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant in Dormagen, Germany...
- KMG picks up Another Electronics Line
- KMG Chemicals has agreed to acquire General Chemical’s wet electronic chemicals business for $25.5 million in cash...
- Eastman Sues DAK, Has Plant Outage
- Eastman Chemical is suing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) producer DAK Americas over the alleged infringement of Eastman’s IntegRex PET production technology...
- European Polymer Capacity Is Closing
- Two chemical firms will shut down polymer capacity in Europe...
- BMS And Allergan Link For Pain Drug
- Bristol-Myers Squibb and Allergan have formed an agreement to develop and commercialize Allergan’s AGN-209323...
- Konarka Enters Pact With Japan’s Konica
- Konarka Technologies has formed an R&D collaboration with Konica Minolta, the Japanese imaging firm...
- PerkinElmer Acquires MS Venture Stake
- PerkinElmer has agreed to purchase Danaher’s half of the two companies’ mass spectrometry joint venture...
- AstraZeneca Details Deep R&D Cuts …
- Following a January announcement of plans for deep R&D cuts, AstraZeneca has revealed which facilities and therapeutic areas will be affected...
- … As It Bolsters Bangalore Center
- AstraZeneca is seeking 25 experienced scientists as part of an upgrade of its process development center in Bangalore, India...
- Watson Sells Stake In Taiwan’s ScinoPharm
- Watson Pharmaceuticals will sell its 31% stake in Taiwan’s ScinoPharm, a custom producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, to Uni-President...
- Business Roundup
- Evonik Industries, Brenntag, Perstorp, Dow Chemical, Regulus Therapeutics, NicOx, PPD, WuXi PharmaTech...
ACS News
Town Hall Meeting Predicts Chemistry's Future p. 47 (Member Content)
Panel convened by Northeastern Section discussed role of chemistry in the U.S. economy.
Green Chemistry Summer School p. 47 (Member Content)
Outstanding Student Chapters pp. 47-48 (Member Content)
ACS Fellows Program p. 48 (Member Content)
Abstracts For Pesticide Residue Workshop p. 48 (Member Content)
Government & Policy
New Jolt For Nuclear Power pp. 31-33 (Member Content)
News Analysis: Obama offers waste-plan overhaul, more R&D funds, and loan guarantees in hopes of building more reactors.
Verifying Emission Cuts pp. 34-35 (Member Content)
Atmospheric measurements can truth-check assertions about greenhouse gas reductions.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 30 (Member Content)
- EPA Proposes Tests Of 29 High-Volume Chemicals
- Manufacturers of 29 chemicals produced in volumes of at least 1 million lb per year would have to conduct toxicity testing...
- Safety At Fort Detrick Labs Deemed Adequate
- A National Research Council committee says it has a “high degree of confidence” that appropriate protections for workers and the public are...
- Senators Want Energy Funds Only For U.S.
- Several senators have written to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner urging him to halt the spending of stimulus money on renewable energy grants...
- Army To Detonate Chemical Weapons
- A Pentagon-proposed detonation of a portion of the chemical weapons stored at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, in Colorado...
- Pesticide R&D Costs On The Rise
- Research and development costs associated with bringing a new pesticide to market have skyrocketed over the past decade...
» more government & policy news...
Books
The Promise Of Green Chemistry pp. 44-45
Book probes chemicals of concern as well as the concepts and perspectives of green chemistry.
ACS Comment
ACS: Fostering Chemistry And Chemists In Transformative Times p. 46 (Member Content)
Social Networking And C&EN
You can now follow C&EN on Facebook. Become a fan and track the latest news and discussions at facebook.com/CENews.
Science & Technology
Predicting Amyloid Formation pp. 38-39 (Member Content)
Computer algorithms find fibril-forming sequences in nearly all proteins.
Rethinking Breast Cancer Toxicology pp. 40-41 (Member Content)
Expert panel recommends screening for effects of chemicals on critical disease pathways.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 36-37 (Member Content)
- Carbon Fixation Single File
- Blue-green algae arrange carbon fixation enzyme compartments for maximum efficiency
- Hydrated Electrons Probed Experimentally
- Determining fundamental properties of electrons in aqueous solution could provide the key to understanding their role in breaking bonds
- Mussels Cling With Irod-Clad Complexes
- Iron-dopa crosslinks give byssal thread cuticles hardness and extensibility
- Agent Targets Bacterial Virulence Factor
- Compound fights tuberculosis by inhibiting a bacterial enzyme needed for infectivity or survival in the host.
- Atrazine Feminizes Male Frogs
- Widely used weed killer transforms male frogs into functional females that can produce viable eggs
- Patterning Turns ‘Darkest Material’ Iridescent
- Carbon nanotube films can go from black to brightly colored when patterned
- Carbon Dioxide Alters Vegetable Biosynthesis
- Greenhouse gas may change the flavor of broccoli
- Amyloid β May Have A Good Side
- Protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease has antimicrobial activity
» more science & technology news...
Meetings
2010 C&EN Calendar Web Exclusive
C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community is for March through December.
Editor's Page
Whither Literacy? p. 3
People
Obituaries pp. 50-51 (Member Content)
The Departments
Letters pp. 4-5
Newscripts p. 56
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