Probing Amyloids
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"The sun will never start charging for its service."
LAWRENCE GASMAN, PRINCIPAL ANALYST, NANOMARKETS – p. 17
June 15, 2009
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Highlights
Cover Story
Tools For Amyloids
Raman and infrared spectroscopic methods give glimpses of difficult‑to-see parts of the amyloid formation process. (pp. 10 -14)
Business
Sneaky Solar
Solar energy developers seek to move beyond clunky rooftop panels. (pp. 17-18)
Government & Policy
Angst Over Cap And Trade (Member Content)
Breaks provided by House's climate-change bill to energy-intensive sector leave chemical industry wanting more. (pp. 22-23)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Zare Is 2010 Priestley Medalist p. 5
ACS award goes to Stanford chemist for lifetime of scientific achievement and service to chemistry.
A Tunable Semiconductor p. 6
Bilayer graphene has controllable bandgap.
Microtubes Follow Directions p. 6
Researchers control the growth, direction, and size of spontaneously assembling microtubes.
CO2 Grants For Chemical Plants p. 7
DOE is making $1.3 billion available to nonenergy companies for demonstration projects.
ACS Journals In Transition p. 7
Society moves to a condensed print format, eliminates some print discounts to cut costs.
Lanxess Boosts Footprint In China And India p. 8
Acquisition in India will triple company's headcount in the country.
Enzyme Makes A Tough Cut p. 8
Crystal structure of bacterial enzyme suggests route to a challenging bond cleavage.
Future Factory Takes Flight p. 9
Europe-based group targets more efficient processes.
Margaret Cavanaugh Wins ACS Volunteer Service Award p. 9
National Science Foundation deputy assistant director has headed numerous American Chemical Society committees.
Business
Sneaky Solar pp. 17-18
Solar energy developers seek to move beyond clunky rooftop panels.
Dow's Plan For Coatings Growth p. 19 (Member Content)
Launch of new business follows acquisition of Rohm and Haas.
C&EN Talks With Sir Philip Cohen p. 20 (Member Content)
The father of protein phosphorylation has set his sights on a new target: ubiquitin.
Business Concentrates pp. 15-16 (Member Content)
- Dow Corning Refocuses On Silicone Innovation
- As part of a plan to shift its technology resources toward developing new specialty silicone products, Dow Corning is doubling the number of standard silicones—rubber bases...
- SABIC Will Close U.K. Polymer Plant
- SABIC Innovative Plastics is closing its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plant in Grangemouth, Scotland, at the end of July...
- Drought-Resistant Corn Gene Disclosed
- Monsanto and BASF have discovered a gene they say confers increased drought resistance and yield stability to a new type of genetically modified corn...
- Solazyme Nets Big Bucks From Investors
- Algae biofuels start-up Solazyme has raised $57 million from current and new venture capital investors in its third round of funding...
- Sumitomo Boosts Methionine Capacity
- Sumitomo Chemical will increase capacity for the feed additive methionine by 40% to 140,000 metric tons per year at its plant in Ehime, Japan...
- Japan's Cosmo Makes Aromatics Investment
- Japanese oil refiner Cosmo Oil will boost its presence in the Asian aromatics business...
- Dutch Firms Launch Hose For Offshore Gas
- Bluewater Energy, a shipping service firm, has introduced a heavy-duty hose designed for transferring liquefied natural gas (LNG) in marine environments...
- Big Drug Companies Invest In Aileron
- Aileron Therapeutics has attracted an unusual group of investors in its latest round of financing...
- GSK, Chinese Firm In Flu Vaccine Venture
- GlaxoSmithKline and Shenzhen Neptunus Interlong Bio-Technique have formed a joint venture to make flu vaccines for the Chinese market...
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Exec Gets Novel Sentence
- Andrew G. Bodnar was given an unusual sentence after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators...
- Roche Inks Discovery, Development Pacts
- Roche and Raptor Pharmaceuticals have entered a collaborative research agreement in which Roche will fund studies of the therapeutic delivery of select molecules...
- MannKind Developing Compact Drug Inhaler
- MannKind Corp. is developing a next-generation inhalation system for pulmonary delivery of drug powders based on its Technosphere technology...
- Anadys, Adolor Restructure, Cut Jobs
- Anadys Pharmaceuticals announced a 40% workforce reduction through the elimination of 20 jobs...
- Business Roundup
- Huntsman Corp.'s case against Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development, CSL, Sigma-Aldrich...
ACS News
A Chemical Legacy Web Exclusive
Chemical Heritage Foundation honors five trendsetters who advanced science and business.
Government & Policy
Angst Over Cap And Trade pp. 22-23 (Member Content)
Breaks provided by House's climate-change bill to energy-intensive sector leave chemical industry wanting more.
Mercury Purge pp. 24-25 (Member Content)
Congress is moving legislation to outlaw mercury-cell chlorine plants.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 21 (Member Content)
- Shuffling In U.K. Government Worries Scientists
- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has eradicated the government department responsible for universities...
- House Panel Limits Pay-For-Delay Deals
- A panel of the House Energy & Commerce Committee has approved legislation to prevent "pay for delay"...
- Army Depot Plans To Destroy Mustard Gas
- The Army's Umatilla Chemical Depot, in Oregon, is preparing to incinerate its supply of mustard agent...
- House Passes Two Science Bills
- The House of Representatives passed two bills on June 8 that are designed to coordinate...
- EPA Needs Power To Obtain Biomonitoring Data
- EPA should have the legal authority to compel chemical manufacturers to conduct biomonitoring studies...
» more government & policy news...
ACS Comment
Welcoming New Members To The American Chemical Society p. 35 (Member Content)
Science & Technology
Recessssion Chemistry 101 pp. 28-30 (Member Content)
Some department chairs say they're coping, while others are just hanging on.
A Tale Of Two Catalysts pp. 31-33 (Member Content)
Years of effort reveal the mechanisms of two catalytic asymmetric allylic substitution reactions.
New Products p. 34 (Member Content)
New and notable in the chemical industry.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 26-27 (Member Content)
- Adaptive Synthetic Peptides
- Self-assembling oligomers, which can swap nucleobases at will, store instructions for biological life in the same way as DNA or RNA.
- HNO Generates Unique Chemical Markers
- Nitroxyl reacts with organic phosphines, yielding unique amide products that can be used to detect the biologically active nitrogen oxide.
- Surprise Methyl C–H Activation In DMF
- Caltech researchers find that a methyl C–H bond in dimethylformamide can be preferentially activated over the labile aldehyde C–H bond.
- Flow Spectroscopy For Tagged Nanoparticles
- A new instrument swiftly snaps high-resolution Raman scattering spectra of individual nanoparticles to obtain quality-control information.
- Formation Of Famous Tantalum Complex Is Nailed Down
- After 35 years, pentaneopentyltantalum is confirmed as the precursor to the tantalum alkylidene complex that led to Schrock metathesis catalysts.
- Borane Compound Turns Off When Sensing Cyanide
- A fluorescing sulfonium borane compound can sense the presence of cyanide ions in water at concentrations less than 1 ppm.
- Silent Matrix For MALDI Mass Spec
- A dimethylaminonaphthalene matrix that doesn't produce ions when irradiated reduces spectral noise for analyzing small biomolecules.
- Glucose Derivative Takes Down Termites
- Gluconolactone increases termites' susceptibility to infection by a fungal pathogen, suggesting it could serve as a nontoxic pest control agent.
» more science & technology news...
Editor's Page
Not Just Any Marge, Dick, And Harry p. 3
Three chemists received major honors for their contributions to chemistry and the chemistry enterprise....
The Departments
Letters pp. 2, 4-5 (Member Content)
Newscripts p. 40
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