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The Emerging Technologies competition open for applications

The Royal Society of Chemistry launches the 2014 UK Emerging Technologies Competition

Applications are invited from university researchers and small companies working in the UK in applied research in the chemical, life and materials sciences for a chance to turn their research into commercial success. The prize consists of ongoing mentoring and support from high profile multinational companies, up to £10,000 cash prize and more. We are proud to announce the mentor companies Procter and Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Catalent Applied Drug Delivery Institute, Croda and more will be joining soon.

Emerging Technologies Competition 2014

The applicants can be individuals or teams and they must submit a brief online application to the Royal Society of Chemistry. The entries will be judged by an independent panel of science and business experts and the shortlisted applications will be invited for the second round of the competition. Each team will pitch to a specialist panel at a public event and up to 5 teams will be crowned as winners. But everyone is a winner! The finalists will be able to access one to one FREE advice from business and finance specialists. In addition this is an excellent opportunity to practice pitching ideas to high profile multinational companies and to meet and network with fellow entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.

Key dates:
First round closes on 1 March 2014
Second round takes place on 25 June 2014,
Chemistry Centre, London

Visit www.rsc.li/emerging-technologies for full details.
UK applications only please

If you have any questions please contact Aurora Antemir antemira@rsc.org.

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Prizes and Awards nominations open

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Prizes and Awards recognise achievements by individuals, teams and organisations in advancing the chemical sciences. There are over 80 Prizes and Awards available covering all areas of the chemical sciences, with prize money of up to £5000 to be won.

The main categories are:

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Biosciences

Environment, Sustainability and Energy

Inorganic Chemistry (Dalton Division)

Materials Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Physical Chemistry (Faraday Division)

Industry & Technology

In addition, we have a new award this year, the Industrial Analytical Science Award, to recognise and celebrate the great contribution of analytical science in industry.

To view the full list of Prizes and Awards and to make a nomination, visit www.rsc.org/awards

Nominations open until 15 January 2014

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HOT Articles in Analytical Methods

Take a look at our new hot articles just published in Analytical Methods. These papers are all free to read until January 6th 2014. Enjoy the reading!

Multianalytical approach to explain the darkening process of hematite pigment in paintings from ancient Pompeii after accelerated weathering experiments
Maite Maguregui, Kepa Castro, Héctor Morillas, Josu Trebolazabala, Ulla Knuutinen, Rita Wiesinger, Manfred Schreiner and Juan Manuel Madariaga
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41741G, Paper

A new method to determine the thickness of platinum nanofilm simply by measuring its electrical resistance
Yujing Sun, Zhiwei Wen, Fugang Xu, Yue Zhang, Yan Shi, Haichao Dai and Zhuang Li
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41488D, Communication

A real-time cell-electronic sensing method for comparative analysis of toxicity of water contaminants
Haiying Du, Jinhua Li, Birget Moe, Claire F. McGuigan and Xing-Fang Li
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41686K, Paper

Magnetic imprinted surface enhanced Raman scattering (MI-SERS) based ultrasensitive detection of ciprofloxacin from a mixed sample
Zhinan Guo, Lei Chen, Haiming Lv, Zhi Yu and Bing Zhao
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40866C, Paper

Synthesis, characterization and adsorption performance of molecularly imprinted nanoparticles for tripterine by precipitation polymerization
Yuan Liu, Guifeng Zhang, Lihong Deng, Jiandu Lei, Lianyan Wang and Jing He
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41772G, Paper

Selection, identification and application of a DNA aptamer against Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A
Yukun Huang, Xiujuan Chen, Yu Xia, Shijia Wu, Nuo Duan, Xiaoyuan Ma and Zhouping Wang
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41576G, Paper

Multianalytical approach to explain the darkening process of hematite pigment in paintings from ancient Pompeii after accelerated weathering experiments

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HOT Articles in Analytical Methods

Take a look at our new HOT articles just published in Analytical Methods! These papers are all free to read for the next three weeks. Enjoy!

Development of a rapid detection method for seven pesticides in cucumber using hollow fibre liquid phase microextraction and ion mobility spectrometry
Jianfeng Wang, Zhongxia Zhang, Zhenxia Du and Wenjun Sun
Anal. Methods, 2013, 5, 6592-6597
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40667A, Paper

Molecularly imprinted polymer-liquid chromatography/fluorescence for the selective clean-up of hydroxylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils
Oriol Baltrons, Montserrat López-Mesas, Cristina Palet, Franck Le Derf and Florence Portet-Koltalo
Anal. Methods, 2013, 5, 6297-6305
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41227J, Paper

Analysis of cadmium-based pigments with time-resolved photoluminescence
Anna Cesaratto, Cosimo D’Andrea, Austin Nevin, Gianluca Valentini, Francesco Tassone, Roberto Alberti, Tommaso Frizzi and Daniela Comelli
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41585F, Paper

Facile detection of latent fingerprints on various substrates based on perylene probe excimer emission
Fangyuan Wang, Jian Chen, Huipeng Zhou, Wenying Li, Qingfeng Zhang and Cong Yu
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41802B, Communication

Investigation into dissolved neutral sugars and their microbial conversion in natural and artificially produced dissolved organic matter using ion chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection and reversed-phase liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry
Sara Sandron, Richard Wilson, Ruth Larragy, Margaret V. McCaul, Pavel N. Nesterenko, Brian Kelleher and Brett Paull
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41549J, Paper

Simple density-based particle separation in a microfluidic chip
Daisuke Sugiyama, Yuki Teshima, Kenichi Yamanaka, Maria Portia Briones-Nagata, Masatoshi Maeki, Kenichi Yamashita, Masashi Takahashi and Masaya Miyazaki
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40971F, Technical Note

Hydrophilic interaction/cation-exchange chromatography for glycopeptide enrichment by using a modified strong-cation exchange material
Linlin Chen, Xuefang Dong, Liwei Cao, Zhimou Guo, Long Yu, Lijuan Zou and Xinmiao Liang
Anal. Methods, 2013, 5, 6919-6924
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41590B, Paper

A luminescence-based assay of UDP-sugar producing pyrophosphorylases
Daniel Decker, Stina Lindberg, Jonas Eriksson and Leszek A. Kleczkowski
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41811A, Communication

A nuclear forensic method for determining the age of radioactive cobalt sources
Luc Charbonneau, Jean-Michel Benoit, Slobodan Jovanovic, Nadereh St-Amant, Stephen Kiser, Michael W. Cooke, Jean-François Mercier, Kathy Nielsen, David Kelly, Pavel Samuleev, Raphael Galea, Kimberly Moore, Patrick R. B. Saull, David B. Chamberlain, Jennifer L. Steeb, Donald G. Graczyk, Yifen Tsai, Vivian S. Sullivan, Ike C. Dimayuga, Youqing Shi, Raghu Rao and Dominic Larivière
Anal. Methods, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41443D, Paper

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Detecting iron the smart way

Spanish scientists have developed a way to quantitatively measure the amount of iron in a solution using a colour changing material and photos taken on a smartphone. Detecting iron the smart way

Iron is present in almost every aspect of our lives but an excess, known as iron overload, can cause significant long term effects ranging from liver damage to arthritis as a result of iron deposition in organs or joints. As such, the amount of iron in a variety of environments needs to be carefully monitored.

Unlike traditional quantitative techniques, which require removing samples to the lab for assessment by trained specialists, the new approach devised by José Miguel García and colleagues at the University of Burgos can return a result within 15 minutes. Central to the technique is 8-hydroxyquinoline, a particularly stable iron chelator, which is immobilised on a polymer disk and will change colour depending on the amount of iron chelated to it.

To read the full article, please visit Chemistry World.

Solid sensory polymer substrates for the quantification of iron in blood, wine and water by a scalable RGB technique
Saúl Vallejos, Asunción Muñoz, Saturnino Ibeas, Felipe Serna, Félix Clemente García and José Miguel García
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3TA12703F

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Combination of effective machine learning techniques and chemometric analysis for evaluation of Bupleuri Radix through high-performance thin-layer chromatography
Xiaoping Cheng, Hongmin Cai, Ping He, Yue Zhang and Runtiao Tian
Anal. Methods, 2013,5, 6325-6330
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41132J, Paper

Direct molecular detection of SRY gene from unamplified genomic DNA by metal-enhanced fluorescence and FRET
Danny Brouard, Olivier Ratelle, A. Guillermo Bracamonte, Maryse St-Louis and Denis Boudreau
Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41428K, Communication

Towards an uncertainty paradigm of detection capability
Michael Thompson and Stephen L. R. Ellison
Anal. Methods, 2013,5, 5857-5861
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41209A, Editorial

Fluorescence imaging for biofoulants detection and monitoring of biofouled strength in reverse osmosis membrane
Jinhee Choi, Wooyeol Choi, Hyunjung Kim, Aamir Alaud-din, Kyung Hwa Cho, Joon Ha Kim, Hyuk Lim, Robert W. Lovitt and In Seop Chang
Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40870A, Paper

A highly selective and sensitive fluorescence ratiometric probe for cyanide and its application for the detection of cyanide in natural water and biological samples
Lingliang Long, Liping Zhou, Lin Wang, Suci Meng, Aihua Gong, Fengyi Du and Chi Zhang
Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41475B, Paper

Planar microfluidic devices in flow modulated comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography for challenging petrochemical applications
Robert A. Shellie, Hernan J. Cortes, Ronda Gras and Jim Luong
Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41198B, Paper

A general method for optimizing the parameter of α/β discrimination in liquid scintillation counting
Xiao-gui Feng, Qian-ge He, Jian-chen Wang and Jing Chen
Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3AY41534A, Paper

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