The News Review:
- Weak chemistry in kitchen won’t whet your appetite
- … of Acetylene-Terminated Monolayers on Si(100) Surfaces: A…
- Fog flowers fireworks fill library
Weak chemistry in kitchen won’t whet your appetite
Providence Journal – Jul 27, 2007
PicturesIn No Reservations Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a renowned Greenwich Village chef whose well-ordered world is turned upside down when she gets custody of her late sister’s daughter while also being saddled with a new assistant chef she fears is after her job. No Reservations is a reworking of the poignant and sometimes funny 2001 German film Mostly Martha an art-house hit so one wonders why this production is so slow so predictable and so long. It doesn’t help that there’s not much chemistry between Zeta-Jones’s perfectionist Kate and Aaron Eckhart’s way-laid-back Nick her new kitchen competition.
… of Acetylene-Terminated Monolayers on Si(100) Surfaces: A…
Environmental Science & Technology – Environmental Science & Technology – Jul 27, 2007
Covalently immobilized structurally well-defined acetylene-terminated organic monolayers were prepared from a commercially available terminal diyne species using a one-step hydrosilylation procedure. Subsequent derivatization of the alkyne-terminated monolayers in aqueous environments with representative azide species via a selective reliable robust cycloaddition process afforded disubstituted surface-bound [123]-triazole species. Detailed characterization using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray reflectometry demonstrated that the surface acetylenes had reacted in moderate to high yield to give surfaces.
Fog flowers fireworks fill library
Portsmouth Herald News – Jul 27, 2007
n Monday Matt Pacewics manager of the Boston Museum of Science’s Traveling Program gave a presentation called “Fog Flowers and Chemistry” to all of Streelman’s summer readers. Through several demonstrations and participation by this year’s summer readers he taught a little bit about how chemistry works and how it’s used in everyday life. According to Pacewics chemistry is not just powder explosions and funny-looking pieces of glass. He said almost everything in life revolves around chemistry and there are not as many explosions as people think. “Chemicals are anything” he said. “How many of you are breathing?”Pacewics then described the chemistry of every breath we take. The body takes in oxygen molecules uses it to respire and then releases carbon dioxide… Through several demonstrations and participation by this year’s summer readers he taught a little bit about how chemistry works and how it’s used in everyday life. According to Pacewics chemistry is not just powder explosions and funny-looking pieces of glass. He said almost everything in life revolves around chemistry and there are not as many explosions as people think. “Chemicals are anything” he said. “How many of you are breathing?”Pacewics then described the chemistry of every breath we take. The body takes in oxygen molecules uses it to respire and then releases carbon dioxide. He also explained the chemistry of eating to audience.