An important note on the 2021 Nobel Prize I finished writing this post yesterday evening and then watched in shock as this year’s Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded partly to Prof. Benjamin List. His original work on asymmetric organocatalysis used the aldol reaction – the exact reaction we have written our entire review paper […]
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Update #3 – Things intensify Every time I write a life update post, I always think that the next one will be less interesting – nothing could top this right? Turns out this semester, although I expected it to be dull & boring, has been one of the most challenging and exciting so far. A
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As I mentioned in my Life Update #2, I’ve been reading a book called Fentanyl Inc by Ben Westhoff. The book gives an in-depth background to the roots and reasons behind the current Opioid crisis across the world and the compound that is responsible for the recently increased risks of Opioid addiction – Fentanyl. Why
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My experience in a research lab If you’re new here, I’ve mentioned in some of my previous posts that I was lucky enough to be involved with the research group of one of my professors. I had the opportunity to learn and work under the supervision of PhD students about hands on chemistry. The header
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Let me update you… It’s been a while since I’ve been regularly active on this page so I thought it would only be fair I give a decent explanation, and a quick update on what I’ve been up to. This last semester was pretty tough for me but I managed to make it through with
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Did you see the news? A Christmas gift to Science. DeepMind AI’s new version of a program called AlphaFold is creating waves in the scientific community. The program, backed by a truck load of computing power, can very accurately predict the exact folding and shape of proteins from their underlying amino acid sequences. DeepMind, if
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You know when something you learnt in one of your classes turns up in real life? You’re just reading something and it just surprises you out of the blue. That happened to me recently. As per usual I was poking around on the internet looking at the chemistry of yet another drug I’m taking, Cetirizine,
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A few weeks ago I came down with the flu This was the third time in 5 weeks I’d got the flu and I was starting to get frustrated. Then, to make matters worse, after the flu left the cough stayed on. This was an annoying cough too, it meant that whenever I was even
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded three chemists for their role in the chemistry behind making powerful and safe lithium ion batteries; John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Their discoveries Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino, unlike previous joint prize winners, worked separately and at different times working on each others previous
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IT CAN’T BE THAT COMPLICATED CAN IT? You’d be surprised! Chocolate is an incredibly versatile thing! BUT ALL CHOCOLATE IS LITERALLY THE SAME… Sure, they are ‘all the same’ to you because chocolate is mainly sold in bars and that’s what people mainly eat, and those chocolate bars are mainly made from the same type
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FOR A CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT I’M TRYING TO ANODISE ALUMINIUM From what I’d seen on YouTube it looked quite simple. I can tell you now it isn’t as easy as it looks. After 4 months of research, I think I’ve found out everything about how to do it and decided to share the information so it’s
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WHAT EVEN ARE SEMICONDUCTORS? They’re the materials that transistors are made from. Transistor are the little guys that power your phone and laptop, and sent man to the moon. If you read my previous post you’ll know the interesting story of how semiconductors came about. Today however I want to talk about doping DOPING? YOU
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But firstly, what even are they? Semiconductors are basically a class of materials that have a level of conductivity between conductors and insulators, hence the name. They form the core of most modern electronics, including transistors which are ‘powering’ the device you’re looking at this article on. How did they arise? This is another interesting
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I’M ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SCIENTIFIC CONTENT. That’s just the way I am, but it took me a while to find the best books, series, documentaries and more. Now, I’m going to share what I’ve found to be the best of the best in terms of interesting science stuff! Hope you agree! BOOKS! Don’t
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