CJCE April issue and latest virtual issue
Explore this month’s issue, containing a special section honouring Professor Kenneth O’Driscoll, and access our new virtual issue.
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Explore our March issue, featuring an open access article by authors from University of Birmingham, UK.
Read More >>CJCE February issue
PUBLICATIONS
Access the second issue of our 100th volume, featuring a review article by authors from Memorial University of Newfoundland as Editor’s Choice.
Read More >>Free-to-read CJCE January issue and a new virtual issue
CAN J CHEM ENG
Explore the first issue of our 100th volume, featuring a cover image from a new Experimental Methods Special Series article, and our new virtual issue focused on researchers in China.
Read More >>A novel way to detect and treat early-stage Alzheimer’s disease
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
A newly developed nanoconstruct may not only diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage, but may help slow progression. It can get past the blood brain barrier in mice, target the amyloid-beta peptides that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease and improve magnetic resonance imaging.
Read More >>On my career (so far) as a chemist of colour
CAREERS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Science is a series of discoveries made by observing, questioning and evaluating our world. Evelyn Asiedu, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada, argues we should use this approach to make the changes necessary to ensure the future of chemistry is more diverse.
Read More >>Methane leaks from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
When Mary Kang landed an environmental policy fellowship at Princeton University in 2012, she decided to model methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells. It didn’t take long to discover a major roadblock. “I couldn’t find any data. And you need data for modelling,” recalls Kang, now a civil engineering professor at McGill University.
Read More >>New life-saving medical isotopes
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
In 1971, U.S. researchers published a proof-of-concept showing how a cyclotron could produce the world’s most commonly used medical isotope. For the next four decades, the paper sat on a shelf. In 2009, University of British Columbia radiologist Dr. François Bénard dusted it off and thought, ‘Why not try to develop that technology?’
Read More >>Raising a stink
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
When something fails to pass the ‘sniff test’ – whether it’s a plan of action or the milk in the back of the fridge – it’s often best to leave it be. But when it comes to unpleasant odours in the air, we don’t have much choice. We have to breathe.
Read More >>Take a quick conference overview
CONFERENCES
CIC graphic designer extraordinaire Krista Leroux has made it easy for you to navigate the busy itinerary of the upcoming Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, which takes place in Halifax from October 20-23.
Read More >>Guts and glory
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
Emma Allen-Vercoe touts her motto as “My microbes told me to do it”. The phrase captures the essence of her work as a professor in the University of Guelph’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, where she has spent more than a decade exploring the daunting biochemical frontier that makes up the human gut. This all too familiar part of our anatomy — which most of us would prefer to think of as a simple black box that turns food into feces — harbours an anaerobic environment known as the microbiome.
Read More >>Painting a picture of persistence
ENVIRONMENT
It’s January 2018 in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and the temperature is -50C even before the wind chill. But cold is not the only danger....
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