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It covers almost every possible recent development in chemistry in just the right amount of detail.... The old disciplines of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry of the stuffy textbooks are ploughed over and a new patchwork of fields created to fill their place.
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Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers or molecular biologists, but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change colour while you wear them. This study provides the lay reader with insights into the world of modern chemistry. Here, for example, chemists find new uses for the improbable buckminsterfullerene molecules - 60-atom carbon soccerballs dubbed "buckyballs" - which seem to have applications for everything from lubrication to medicine to electronics. The book is not intended as an introduction to chemistry, but as an accessible survey of recent developments throughout many of the major fields allied with chemistry: from research in traditional areas such as crystallography and spectroscopy to entirely new fields of study such as molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, and "smart" polymer gels.
It covers almost every possible recent development in chemistry in just the right amount of detail.... The old disciplines of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry of the stuffy textbooks are ploughed over and a new patchwork of fields created to fill their place.
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Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers or molecular biologists, but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change colour while you wear them. This study provides the lay reader with insights into the world of modern chemistry. Here, for example, chemists find new uses for the improbable buckminsterfullerene molecules - 60-atom carbon soccerballs dubbed "buckyballs" - which seem to have applications for everything from lubrication to medicine to electronics. The book is not intended as an introduction to chemistry, but as an accessible survey of recent developments throughout many of the major fields allied with chemistry: from research in traditional areas such as crystallography and spectroscopy to entirely new fields of study such as molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, and "smart" polymer gels.
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In 1989, chemists working at Harvard University in Massachusetts brewed up a horribly lethal concoction called palytoxin - one of the most poisonous natural chemicals known and the most toxic ever to be synthesized artificially. Read the first page
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