Marijuana begins to yield its chemical secrets
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
Much was already known about the chemical make-up of marijuana last year before the federal government passed Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act, which legalized general...
Read More >>A Maritime meeting this fall
CONFERENCES
Labour Day is coming up fast, along with the early registration deadline for the 69th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference on September 9th. The event will take place October 20-23 at the newly opened Halifax Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where participants will have an opportunity to hear from some of the leading people in...
Read More >>Microfluidics turns to multipoles
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
The past two decades have been a heyday for the field of microfluidics, which has adapted highly accurate etching methods from the information technology industry to create miniaturized arrays where reactions can occur with minimal amounts of reagents. The resulting “lab on a chip” has set the stage for entirely new categories of analytical hardware,...
Read More >>Can. J. Chem. Eng. Virtual Issue
PUBLICATIONS
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering has a new Virtual Issue, featuring all of the papers in our Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering series. This special series of mini-review papers began with the preface in November 2018. The Virtual Issue compiles 14 articles that have been published since then or will be published in upcoming...
Read More >>Q&A: A researcher describes her path toward energy and environmental innovation
CAREERS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In the heart of Downtown Toronto lies a nanoengineering laboratory that is determined to have...
Read More >>Measuring milk’s many micronutrients
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Milk may be among our most familiar and venerable parts of the human diet, but its complex chemistry still holds a few mysteries and surprises. Most analyses have focused on the macronutrients, the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates that make up this product. The latest generation of metabolomics methods, however, bring powerful technologies such as mass...
Read More >>Alberta pilot plant marks the latest milestone for Forward Water
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
At the beginning of 2017 Canadian Chemical News offered an introduction to Forward Water, a start-up company that was spun off from research led by Philip Jessop, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University. He had devised a “switchable” solvent whose solubility can be altered with the addition of CO2, which can...
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