Visit our new display and demonstration room at Asynt in Cambridgeshire UK to see our wide range of laboratory apparatus up close and work with our chemists to find your perfect solution!
See the first information about the NEW Asynt “PhotoVap” which adapts any standard rotary evaporator into a photo synthesiser and is the brainchild of chemists at the University of Nottingham, UK – led by Mike George, and including Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dr Charlotte Clarke.
Pete Licence, director of the carbon neutral laboratory at the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham talks us through this groundbreaking new facility.
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!
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.
With the school summer holidays upon us we thought we would share some ideas to help entertain the kids, and you never know, maybe help inspire the next generation of chemists! See our selection of fun chemistry experiments for kids.
With the right ingredients, a “dash” of chemistry, maybe a cold drink, – we can turn up the heat and feel smug that we’re all chemists when we barbecue!
Back in January the IUPAC accepted the evidence indicating that four new elements had been produced, fleshing out the bottom row of the periodic table. They were given temporary names to start with (such as ununseptium – element 117), but the formal names have now been agreed! They aren’t any easier to pronounce though…
I started thinking about the cult series “Game of Thrones” a little more; a mixture of little-known and world-renowned actors and actresses, stunning sets and costumes, an incredibly complex story line and, I realised, a whole heap of weird and wonderful chemistry!
We keep an eye out for interesting chemistry tweets to share and @BuzzFeedScience had a great one recently; 11 Unsung Science Heroines You Really Should Have Heard Of.
