Keeping all the balls in the air
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Imagine this: You’re an early thirty-something PhD graduate, newly married, on the cusp of realizing your personal and professional aspirations...
Read More >>Raising the bar for a life outside the lab
INTELLECTUAL MATTERS
When I was about halfway through my master’s degree, I began to think about what I would do in the “real world” and how I could capitalize on my chemistry...
Read More >>Students need soft skills for hard times
EDUCATION
We should create an ecosystem that offers business courses to science students and mentorship programs connecting aspiring entrepreneurs with business leaders.
Read More >>CIC/SCI Canada award winners announced
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
See this year’s winners of the CIC/SCI Canada awards
Read More >>Building public understanding with ‘molecular lego’
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Deoxyribonucleic acid, the blueprint of evolution, is arguably the world’s most famous molecule. But as McGill University’s Hanadi Sleiman explained to Toronto audiences last fall, the possible applications of DNA...
Read More >>Metal-organic frameworks advance fuel cell technology
ENERGY
Chemists at the University of Calgary have created two new metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that demonstrate some of the best performance yet in proton transport. Such advances could serve to create better hydrogen fuel cells. ...
Read More >>New class of conductive polymers synthesized
POLYMERS
Researchers at the University of Toronto have synthesized a new class of conducting polymers —polytellurophenes — that could bring about advances in organic solar cells and thin-film transistors.
Read More >>CNC-IUPAC travel awards help young researchers
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Three promising young chemists have received funding to travel to international conferences as part of the Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (CNC-IUPAC)...
Read More >>Bridging the science-society gap
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
In October, the CIC Vancouver Local Section hosted the 2012...
Read More >>Deep blue
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Copper (II) sulfate was the medium of choice for the 2012...
Read More >>ACCN goes to Parliament Hill
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
All of Canada’s 308 federal Members of Parliament are now being provided with...
Read More >>ACPO celebrates the big 5-0
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Fifty years ago this month, the Association of the Chemical...
Read More >>Mass Appeal
COMMUNICATIONS
By day you can find Rui Resendes at the Kingston, Ont. headquarters of GreenCentre Canada.
Read More >>Job seeker, know thyself
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
In this issue's Q and A, ACCN speaks with Alan Kearns, founder of the career management firm CareerJoy, about how chemists and chemical engineers on the job hunt can leverage their skills.
Read More >>CIC and CSC award winners announced
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
See this year's winners of the CIC and CSC awards
Read More >>Fracking a boon for guar gum farmers
PETROCHEMISTRY
The price of guar gum, produced from the seeds of the guar plant, has been skyrocketing recently. While it has long been used in the food industry as a texture-modifying...
Read More >>Then and now
HISTORY
Shell was one of the first Canadian oil companies to expand beyond fuels to commodity chemicals like the methyl ethyl ketone trumpeted in this ad from the June 1949 issue...
Read More >>Fireflies inspire LED coating
MATERIALS
The jagged pattern of scales on the abdomen of a firefly has inspired researchers to create a new coating for light emitting diodes (LEDs) that extracts 55 per cent more light than noncoated LEDs. Researchers in Belgium examined fireflies and noted scales with a periodically repeating...
Read More >>Two-headed‘ gemini’ surfactants commercialized
GREEN CHEMISTRY
A Novel class of two-headed surfactants developed by researchers at St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie...
Read More >>Omega-3 fatty acids affect gene expression
HEALTH
Researchers at Université Laval have used transcriptomics and metabolomics to analyse the health effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) dietary supplements. The results provide new insight into how these chemicals work their benefits — and why they don’t affect everyone the same way. ...
Read More >>Tiny wires could provide better CO2 detection
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Semiconductor nanowires grown molecule by molecule at the University of Toronto may represent the best hope for faster...
Read More >>If academia is your path, think outside the university
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
The cover of the January 21 issue of Maclean’s, which promised to explain “why so many smart, educated, ambitious young people have no future” was enough to make any university...
Read More >>Mussel ‘glue’ protects damaged blood vessels
BIOCHEMISTRY
An international team led by a researcher from the University of British Columbia has designed a new hydrogel-based treatment for damaged blood vessels. The material used was inspired by the amino acid ‘glue’ that holds marine mussels to rocks.
Read More >>Milk protein enables targeted drug delivery
PHARMACEUTICALS
Chemists at Université Laval have combined a common protein found in cow and sheep milk with mesoporous silica to create a new type of functionalized nanoparticle that can deliver drugs...
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