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September 26, 2011 Issue

Volume 89, Issue 39

September 26, 2011 Issue, Vol. 89 | Iss. 39

Getting The Steel Out

Automakers push ahead on energy-saving carbon fiber composites despite questions of economic viability
By Marc S. Reisch
Features
Government & Policy

New Life For Free-Trade Deals

Republicans, Democrats may come together to pass a trio of long-delayed agreements
Science & Technology

Personalizing Nanomedicine

Researchers strive to tailor patient care by developing nanoparticles called theranostics that can simultaneously monitor and treat disease
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News of the Week

Pitcher Plant Inspires Super Slippery Surface

Materials Science: Material mimics plant’s slick surface structure

Dow Funds 2012 Chemistry Olympiad

Philanthropy: Firm will help ACS host competition with $2.5 million pledge

Ireland Beckons Biotech Business

Pharmaceuticals: Investments and mergers have Irish eyes smiling

Moving From Lab To Market

Technology Transfer: President Obama unveils initiatives to encourage, support commercialization

Scientists Admit to Trade Secret Theft

Lowering The Brain’s Drawbridge

Drug Delivery: New technique shepherds large molecules across the blood-brain barrier in mice

Protests Flare At Chinese Solar Plant

Environment: Water contamination infuriates nearby residents

EPA Stalls on Carbon Dioxide Rules

Greenhouse Gas: Agency puts off proposal to cut power plant emissions

Longest Synthetic Oligosialic Acids

Carbohydrate Chemistry: Achievement could aid design of antibacterial vaccines
 

Departments


Business

New pigment chemistry is a boon for Cabot and a Massachusetts town
Spontaneous protests lead to closure of a Chinese petrochemical facility
Automakers push ahead on energy-saving carbon fiber composites despite questions of economic viability
Pharmaceuticals: Investments and mergers have Irish eyes smiling
Environment: Water contamination infuriates nearby residents
Concentrates
  1. Bayer CropScience Raises R&D Spending
  2. Imerys Opens U.S. Proppants Plant
  3. Mascoma, Elevance Plan IPOs
  4. Williams To Hike Ethylene Capacity
  5. Siam Cement To Buy 30% Of Chandra Asri
  6. Lanxess Eyes More Biobased Rubber
  7. Chemical Firms Eye Pollution Control
  8. Petrochemical Firms Invest In Lubricants
  9. Business Roundup
  10. GE Will Invest In Cancer Diagnostics
  11. West-Ward To Boost Contract Production
  12. New Light Stabilizer Aids Greenhouses
  13. Indorama Will Buy European Recycler
  14. Vanderbilt Advances Biotech Partnerships

ACS News

In deepwater dives, Daniel Marie hunts for bioactive compounds to treat diseases such as cancer
Philanthropy: Firm will help ACS host competition with $2.5 million pledge
Obituaries
  1. Otto R. Gottlieb
  2. Ronald Bentley
  3. Julia A. Rutherford
  4. John P. Luvisi
  5. John J. Hiller Jr.
  6. Kazuo Nakamoto
  7. Hans Wynberg
  8. Donald M. Jerina
  9. Meldrum B. Winstead Jr.

Government & Policy

Republicans, Democrats may come together to pass a trio of long-delayed agreements
Judge to decide whether climate researcher can argue for protection of his documents
Technology Transfer: President Obama unveils initiatives to encourage, support commercialization
Greenhouse Gas: Agency puts off proposal to cut power plant emissions
Concentrates
  1. China, India Lead The Energy Pack
  2. Emerging Pollutants Named In Great Lakes
  3. Chemistry Teams Win Innovation Grants
  4. House Bill Would Delay Boiler Rule
  5. OECD Report Links Innovation And Growth

Science & Technology

Materials Science: Material mimics plant’s slick surface structure
Carbohydrate Chemistry: Achievement could aid design of antibacterial vaccines
Researchers strive to tailor patient care by developing nanoparticles called theranostics that can simultaneously monitor and treat disease
ACS Meeting News: Inorganic Chemistry turns 50, giving inorganic chemists a reason to pause and celebrate
ACS Meeting News: Analytical chemists devise ways to watch radioactive streams
Drug Delivery: New technique shepherds large molecules across the blood-brain barrier in mice
Concentrates
  1. Reducing Shipping Air Pollution Bodes Well
  2. Gamers Solve Protein Structure
  3. Porphyrin’s Hole Plugged By Ethylene
  4. Stretching Livens Up Electron Transport
  5. Cyclic Surrogates Pass The Acid Test
  6. Shark Lipid Repels Virus
  7. Carbon-Based Thermoelectrics
  8. Cyanocuprates Boost Ketone Synthesis

Newscripts

Editor's Page

Letters

Letters
  1. Pricing Journals
  2. Battling Antibiotic Resistance
  3. ‘Living With Radon’
  4. Care In Using Quantum Chemical Calculations