Our tweet of the week has been selected from @ChemistryWorld with new ways to separate oil and water. We love the funky video but there’s so much more to this report!
With the Paris and London fashion weeks happening just a couple of months ago, and the Pakistan fashion week commencing in November, it’s not only designers and fashionista gurus interested in fabric design and specifications.
If you look, you can find a way of bringing some chemistry fun and mayhem into all the big annual holidays! We bring the Asynt chemistry touch to Halloween…
Back in the 1990’s I was involved in the “boom” and desire by many research chemistry leaders to make as many compounds as possible. Combinatorial chemistry was a huge buzz term. Read on to see how this affects the tools we now offer.
It has been almost 120 years since the death of Alfred Nobel and yet it is thanks to the death of his brother Ludwig that we now have the annual awarding of the prizes that bare his name. Find out more about the history of the awards, and this years winners in our blog!
To celebrate 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl in Cardiff, Cardiff University’s School of Chemistry recreated how George’s Marvellous Medicine might have looked based on descriptions in the book!
In medieval times having a blacksmith make a sword all by himself would be as common as having a heart surgeon today do an operation all by himself. A single person blacksmith shop is an oxymoron in historical times. Those forest forgers all seem to work on their own though on the TV! I guess too much accuracy spoils the story and reigns in the artistry of the set…
“You know, it’s amazing how many super villains have advanced degrees. Graduate schools should do a better job of screening those people out.”
French-born British physicist, Denis Papin, could be termed the original master of pressure having invented the pressure cooker and suggested the first cylinder and piston steam engine. We offer our thanks for his contribution to the current range of pressure reactors for the modern laboratory.
One of our best Asynt team days out (ever!) was a summer trip to the seaside with a fish and chip supper (a truly British day!) but we had no idea that it wasn’t vinegar we were pouring over our chips!
