Profiles – Page 7
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Graham Dawson
The ups and downs of reopening a Chinese university and its research labs after prolonged closure
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Jose Mascareñas
As Spain begins lifting its lockdown, a key chemist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia worries about the future
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Mélissa Nehme, Lucía Gallego and Joe Woods
Researchers are returning to labs in Switzerland with social distancing measures in place
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: James Canary
The chair of NYU’s chemistry department says research is ‘completely interrupted’ in his lab and his senior graduate student is stuck in China
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: James Keeler
The head of Cambridge’s chemistry department says its research has been ‘mothballed’, and he worries about lost productivity
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BusinessMicropore Technologies’ model membranes make exact emulsions
Solving scalability issues to control particle size without high-shear mixing
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Solomon Derese
With a curfew in place across Kenya, one senior lecturer is spending his nights recording online classes
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Sarah Reisman
Work hasn’t slowed for the head of a Caltech synthetic organic chemistry lab, but now she’s doing it from home with her two young children
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ResearchIntroducing chirality to give organic electronics a twist
Medicinal molecules and electronic materials aren’t often found in the same research group. Meet Matthew Fuchter, who’s excelling at both
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Boon Mian Teo
The pandemic is hitting university budgets and costing researchers their jobs
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Zahra Jamshidi
Lockdown measures are easing in Iran, but there’s still no indication of when universities will reopen
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Liang Zhang
Everything changed for a young chemist in Shanghai when Covid-19 hit while he was away visiting family to celebrate the Chinese New Year
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Akash Deep Biswas
A young computational chemist from India, working to finish his PhD in Italy, is getting media attention for his social action during the pandemic
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Bartosz Grzybowski
Polish chemist has been able to keep his research at labs in South Korea and Poland remarkably stable during this volatile period
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Núria López
The Spanish scientific superstar is at home, but busier than ever trying to get researchers access to Europe’s supercomputers to fight Covid-19
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Laurean Ilies
As Japan declares an emergency state, a Romanian team leader at Riken uneasily shuts down his lab
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Helen Sharman
A former space-travelling chemist finds she has to rejig her work here on Earth as a science communicator
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Edgar Cahoon
Labs are still open at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, US, but it’s not business as usual
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Dick Zare
As part of a new series looking at how chemists are affected by Covid-19, Dick Zare relates how manuscripts and Zoom calls have kept him busy in self-isolation.
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BusinessGetting ideas across
In a diverse industry like chemicals, we need to make sure we’re open to learning from unexpected angles.