January. Time of New Year’s Resolutions, time for many people to consider living a more healthy life, including more exercise and eating less and better food. Looking further into this matter one finds references to so called “dietary fibers”, which are non-digestable non-starch polysaccharides, as well as cellulose, lignin, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans, inulin and oligosaccharides. Although any […]
Archive for January, 2007
Polymer of the month (January 2007): Inulin
Published by January 25th, 2007 in biopolymers and polymer of the month. 2 CommentsRECOMMENDATION A1. GUARANTEE PUBLIC ACCESS TO PUBLICLY-FUNDED RESEARCH RESULTS SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION Research funding agencies have a central role in determining researchers’ publishing practices. Following the lead of the NIH and other institutions, they should promote and support the archiving of publications in open repositories, after a (possibly domain-specific) time […]
Polymerizing the unpolymerizable
Published by January 12th, 2007 in future technology and preparative. 0 CommentsAccording to Washburn et al. polymers from 1,2-disubstituted ethylenes with substituting groups larger than methyl groups are now polymerizable, just as thermodynamics would expect, just not in large amounts (yet).
The future of fusion power
Published by January 11th, 2007 in energy and future technology. 0 CommentsAnother post in the “energy” category, although it is not really the theme of this blog — but very interesting and important. For many years fusion power has been the hope and dream of many people. Will it actually help solve our energy problem? Save the day? A current post at The Oil Drum: Europe talks about […]
