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Dean’s Analytical Chemical Handbook

Biosorbents for Metal Ions

Tensor properties of solids: equilibrium tensor properties of solids

Tensor properties of solids: transport properties of solids

Indispensable in hot kitchens: the nanotube

Oxford chemists have found a way of using carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry.

Professor Richard Compton and his team at Oxford University have developed a sensitive technique to measure the levels of capsaicinoids, the substances that make chillies hot, in samples of chilli sauce. They report their findings in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal The Analyst.

Royal Society of Chemistry (2008, May 8). Chemists Measure Chilli Sauce Hotness With Nanotubes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/05/080506115604.htm

Breaking NEWS!!! SciFinder Scholar is now on the Web. No longer do you need to download the interface software. We have established our account that is protected by password. We will run both the web and interface connections for awhile probably til the end of Spring Term.

To logon to the web version to to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/restricted/scifinderscholarweb.html

Feedback on usability on the new web version would be appreciated.

There has been a lot action recently on electronic collaboration among academics, mostly through the sciences, but that just may be due to my monitoring the sciences more than other disciplines. Within the last few months publishers have offered researchers networking options, mimicking many social networking sites on the Internet.

Here are a couple of articles that report on researcher collaboration:

Scientists’ collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital
Barry Bozeman,a and Elizabeth Corley,b
a School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
b School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0603, USA
Science Communication, Vol. 19, No. 2, 124-140 (1997)

Here are a few websites that offer researcher collaboration venues:

Nature
http://network.nature.com/

Elsevier
http://www.2collab.com/

ACS
http://exchange.chemistry.org/cms/

ISI Web of Knowledge
http://isiwebofknowledge.com/researcherid/

BiomedExperts
http://www.biomedexperts.com/

Jean-Claude Brandley Useful Chemistry Blog+
http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/

Femtosecond beam science [electronic resource] / edited by Mitsuru Uesaka. QD716.L37 F46 2005eb

Organic syntheses based on name reactions [electronic resource] / A. Hassner and C. Stumer. QD262 .H324 2002eb

Computer modeling of chemical reactions in enzymes and solutions [electronic resource] / Arieh Warshel. QP601 .W357 1997eb

Inorganic materials chemistry desk reference. [electronic resource] TP200 .S26 2005

We have just commenced a trial of the online Bio-Rad Database (formerly known as Sadtler spectra database). Remember the huge binders on the third floor? Now you can download your unknown spectra and match it to known spectra. This trial is for Drexel affiliated students, staff and faculty. Go to: www.knowitallanyware.com click on the agree statement. The next screen will offer a simple search, but the advance search option will allow you to download spectra as a search option.

Trial will end March 30, 2008. Have fun!

What would you do with a gel that dramatically changes color
in response to heat, water and salt? As this ScienCentral News video explains, the uses could range from color-changing clothes to monitoring food safety.

Check it out!

As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the entire University community. We now own the electronic backfiles to 549 journals not previously accessible online to Drexel Libraries. These include a major acquisition in chemistry: Springer Link Historical Archives: Chemistry and Materials Science.

The backfiles consist of full-text PDFs and usually go back to the journal’s first issue. All of these titles are now available via the catalog and electronic journals list. Please see the following pages for the individual journal titles included in each collection:

American Institute of Physics Digital Archive

Springer Link Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science

Springer Link Historical Archives Computer Sciences

Springer Link Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences

Springer Link Historical Archives Engineering

Springer Link Historical Archives Mathematics

Springer Link Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy

Chemistry.org/exchange is user-driven scientific content: you can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global community.

Chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a profile, assign tags (keywords) to your account, and find and network with other registered users. I have a profile here.

Chemistry.org/exchange is an article repository: start a library of scientific research that’s important to you–publications you’ve authored, or articles that furthers your research. There are some very interesting articles such at the one Longest-Lived Animal Found–Clam, 405